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LDVoyage Migration gives rise to new software

A couple of posts on the topic (http://ldvoyage.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/ldvoyage-migration-notes/) has seeded a lot of attention among many people with a spurt of requests coming in for the migration scripts. I had already shared the migration scripts in the following posts:

  1. http://lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/2011/06/blogdrive-downloader.html (Linux or Cygwin only)
  2. http://lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/2012/08/cross-platform-blogdrive-downloader.html  (All Platforms)

I hope these are useful for everyone. Do send me your feedback on these tools.

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An independence day stroll on Hampton Beach

July 4 this year is on Wednesday. Hence a few were needing to take two to four days off to make best their vacation celebrations spree. When it comes to holidays, it is little trouble with good mexican restaurants because Chipotle and Qdoba often observe Federal holidays for their employees as well.  Adding to this, the hot weather in an other mountainous region was making one to sweat like a pig.

Towards the evening, a few of us were planning to visit a neighborhood temple. But then the plans changed because there were fireworks show at the beach too. We started to beach around 4.30 PM and after about an hour and a half drive reached Hampton Beach.  There was about two miles of traffic piled even before the beach and the vehicle had to literally inch forward.

Fortunately we could figure out a quick parking lot to pull up the vehicle and start on a leisure stroll on the beach, amidst the light hustle and bustle of crackers/fireworks. The actual fireworks by the township was slated to go live at 08:30 PM.  The beach ‘attractions’ were indeed galore including a few historic monuments near the shore.

There was a small dias setup near the shore and a light music program was in progress. Perhaps a stage near the sea shore brought me a fond recall of Marina Beach in Chennai which had boasted a historic ‘Seerani Arangam’. Unfortunately due to political reasons this is no more after 2003.

The photos could be found from my blog page here.

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A Memorable Memorial Day Longest Road Trip to Panama City Beach (‘Kadalora Kavithaigal’)

This long weekend for Memorial Day had been a memorable day for me. After a brief stay at Kentucky it was time for me to move ahead to Oregon in short. We planned out a little long road trip instead of just flying down to Panama Beach City. It was around 9 hours drive through Nashville (TN), Atlanta (GA) and touching through Texas borders it enters into Panama City in the sunshine state.

Little did I realize that my Gurudev had another Kadalora Kavithaigal engineered in parallel. But that is another story, in line of Thendral serial of Vikatan in SunTV.

31 May 2012

My room mate called me around 4 PM to pick me from workplace so that we can get set go on the road trip around 6 PM. After packing up the required things, we started around 6 PM towards Atlanta GA. On the way, we had a brief halt near Chattanoga TN for dinner. The state of agriculture and commerce (Tennessee) had a distinct respect for me. One of my first homesteading was based out of /TN/ without much knowledge of the state/country itself. You can check out the same at http://www.angelfire.com/tn/lakshminarasimhan/

After a slow sojourn through Nashville TN  (with tears),  we reached Atlanta around 1 AM to catch a brief wink of sleep at Marriot in Atlanta Downtown.

1st June 2012

We resumed our flagship journey towards the beach haven around 7 AM. After a brief breakfast on the suburbs of Atlanta and a little furore-fun near Alabama, we reached Panama hotel around 6 PM.  How would I look calling it as Goa of the West or should Goa be called Panama of India?

2nd June 2012

We did have a few beachside strolls and visits to neighborhood places in the city. The beach itself is quite enough to hold you enthralled in Her elegance and eloquence of Her roaring waves. La Belle Dame Sans Merci.

After an aggressive night prowls and patrols till 2 AM we returned back to the hotel to take brief rest.

3rd June 2012

After quick breakfasts and packups we planned two quick activities before starting back to our routine work. The state park and boat rides.  After relishing on these and empowered with a good lunch at a Chinese restaurant, we started back on home-bound trip. The cops did join us in the party. We were gifted with a ‘overspeeding ticket’ near Alabama.

Our initial plan was to pull up near Nashville TN around 12 AM and resume the journey to avoid a non-stop journey. But by the time we touched Nashville it was 3 AM and rather than disturbing our weekday schedules we decided to finish off the journey by another one and half hour drive. Did I skip a nap in the lap of Nashville or was it good for obvious reasons?

Album:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=885A5FC8F2F543BB!423&authkey=!AHwcP9T2_KtU4Cw

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A Sun Shine After Several Months …

After several months of cold chilly weather that stretched beyond April, we could see a hot sun causing a little sweat trickling down the forehead this weekend. Interestingly the forecast is again rain and scattered thunderstorms this week.

The Sun seems to be a very rare asset these days.  When there is a hot summer we complain about it but when it comes to be an exile against it, we feel the need of it.

There is a good old saying that we understand the need and necessity of shadow in the hot sun and perhaps the vice-versa is also kind of true. But interestingly yesterday my visit to the eye clinic for a quick two-hour consultation and back gave me a lot of headache stretching well upto and beyond 10 PM.

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Fring + Android brings out a new dimensions to voyages!

I hope you would have followed my new post on porting of my mobile number over here. Whilst playing with my Android today with Virgin Mobile’s 3G data plan, I just observed out a friendly feature of Google Maps made more easy (‘Poor man’s GPS’). 

At least in this part of the world you can pull your vehicles, hunt for a tea-shop to ask for directions. You ought to pre-plan your trips, have the itinerary in place before starting the car/boarding the bus. 

And well, with Fring enabled you can be sure not to use up your minutes but rather use your data plan to talk to some one with Google Voice or with fring peers. It is another new way to fortify the journey and equip the travel bags.