Saatchi Middle East Adventure

Visited the Saatchi gallery today to see the new Middle East art exhibition. The quality was high as usual although there was not the ridiculous shock factor of multiple waxwork dead bodies like at the last collection.

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Choosing a decent Amplifer

Bought an amplifier today after much research and investigation and decided to write about the general difficulty of the whole thing.

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Yahoo Analytics Slow to Launch to the Masses?

Last April, Yahoo announced that it had acquired the leading web analytics specialist IndexTools and then in October last year it announced the beta of Yahoo Analytics available only to Yahoo small business customers. Since then things have gone very quiet. The website appears to promise much in the way of features but availability is still limited.

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Cardboard Teacup

It was a complicated project, much like all of these sort of constructions.

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All New Imbimp Redesign

No sooner had this site been built, but along comes a fancy new theme. This was always my intention, but it takes time to rip all the cardboard and photoshop all the remains.

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Ista Hotel

This helpful gentleman can be found outside my hotel, Ista…he sports an excellent moustache and managed to put his hands together so naturally, I suspect he has been doing it for years.

He also performs the useful task of fetching cars from the car park. Somewhere hidden in his facial hair or hat is a microphone that delivers his registration plate calls to speakers beneath the hotel.

Airport Walkabout

Pringles & Digestives

Arrived back in Banaglore, delayed by the right-honourable President Bush who decided to leave right when I wanted to. How inconvenient. Still, made me think of this quote from a recent Charlie Brooker article…

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Busy day for traffic

Having sat in traffic for about 20 minutes this morning with the engine off and no A/C, I decided to make a run for it. I jumped out of the car and decided to make my way to work on foot.

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Working next to Coconut husks

Continuing the busy busy busy theme, here I can be seen with laptop next to a pile of empty coconuts.

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Lift-based work

Here I am, so busy, I even need to work while traveling between floors. The lift attendant kindly let me use his seat while being lifted between the ground floor and the first floor so I could quickly sneak in an extra IM.

Strangely it is necessary to use the lift to get to the first floor as their are no stairs unless there is a dreadful fire.

Mcdonalds

So despite having Indian curry for breakfast, lunch and dinner there are other options.

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Tim Meets Gabar Singh

Bizarrely some guy dressed in army uniform burst into the office yesterday and started shouting.

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Roof-top A/C Study

The term air conditioning refers to the cooling and dehumidification of indoor air for thermal comfort.

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Satellite Communication

Up on the roof nearby to the dining room there are some satellite dishes and a little bit of shade.

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Working Lunch

Things are getting really busy now here at BDC. As such i have decided to take my laptop to lunch with me.

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Dev Stand-up

Its pretty hot here, so needless to say, I don’t usually stand-up during the development stand-up.

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Teaching Restart

Here I am, pen in hand, banging on about how to build new welcome screens.

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Loads of Welcome Screens

Tomorrow I will start to build lots and lots of welcome screens. It will be an interesting chance to work on possibly the most agile project yet.

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Blessed by Imbimp

A one or two Rupee coin is placed in the trunk, that is then passed to the fat controller, who then get the Imbimp to put his trunk to your head.

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