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Welcome to saumilzx.com!
This is my personal site. You are at the right place if you would like to know more of my ideas and projects during my free time- independent from my company work (which also involves software, photography and travel!). The Scope of this Site Sources of my Ideas & Methods About Saumil General Blogs:  RSS feed or view at saumilzx.blogspot.comAudio Podcasts: ZX of Cricket
For those interested in my travel projects in SEAsia, please visit thatsourworld.com my travel solutions company. |
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News and Views... iPhone vs Android? will it be similar to Mac vs PC of the 1980s? Magnus Carlsen the wonder kid is surprising GMs like Kramnik and Topalov with unconventional openings. He sure is here to stay and go a long way... Kindle: any feedback about this mobile book reader from Amazon? Can foreign authors publish? Stephen Hendry on YouTube nice development of reds from the pack... v Jimmy White, 1995. Copyright or Copyleft? checkout wikipedia for a style of open source licensing. If you got it for free, and build upon it, release that for free! Not all free software licenses are this way, though. Microbes at Mega Monuments apparently the colossal sandstone structures of Angkor are darkening due to bacteria in the rocks... global warming and overcrowding are not the only concerns of the travel industry. |
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The scope of this site... As you can see from the stubs on top, I like to dabble in few diverse subject matter. I am really passionate about the way we use technology. Does it simplify those aspects of routine work which we can do without? And more positively, are we finding newer ways to do things previously not possible? User authentication and e-transactions via Mobile devices, Reference Tools Online, On-Demand Content/Apps- is it all coming together finally? Or will there always be a gap between technology and the way we live with it? As far as photography is concerned- I shoot travel stock and also explore ways of digital manipulation, archiving and presentation of visuals. So do expect some ideas on digital/web techniques. I will cover many sporting issues related to Cricket, Chess, Cue-Sports, Tennis, Soccer etc. However, I am in the process of inventing enough variants in each sport, so that any given sport can be played using concepts from others- Universal Sports Expression! |
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Source of ideas and inspiration... Technology-wise I come from the Apple/Mac side of the camp- if there is such a thing. Alan Kay, Steve Jobs, Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Tognazzini. XML/Java has surely helped me create web interfaces just as Applescript has helped me automate desktop interfaces. Photography- Ernst Hass, Ansel Adams, and John Sexton. These photographers would cover a broad range of fluid expression and technical brilliance. I do not paint but impressionists like Monet and others like Rembrandt, who have mastery of lighting- can make any photographer envious. Philosophy- every school in India and the Orient, specifically Navya Nyaya (I owe a lot of my understanding to the Bhandarkar Institue, Pune and Goswami Shyam Manohar). From the west, Bertrand Russell & Set Theorists- in a modern sense; and Greek philosophy from an ancient context, are key to some of my methods as well. Recently, I have been learning first hand from Thailand, Bali and Japan- various methods of contemplation and aspects of design principles as well. Sports- since the past few years, I have been seeing every sport as a form of chess. Chess theory is diverse but I try to study Capablanca, Nimzowitsch, Fischer, Tal, Kasparov, Karpov and recently Anand, Topalov, Kramnik and Carlsen. Outside chess, I currently follow Tendulkar, Lara, Warne, McGrath, Kumble (Cricket); Earl Strickland, Reyes and most 9-ball players; Geet Sethi, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry (Snooker/Billiards). Federer vs Nadal has been nice as well. However, a Jan-Ove Waldner clip (Table Tennis), will always make my day or my dreams. |
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About Saumil Saumil Bhukhanwala is a Computer Engineer (MS Iowa State Univ, USA). He has worked in the fields of Digital Imaging (Photoshop plug-ins!), Mac UI automation, Digital Restoration of Art and Photographs. A campus job at the Iowa State Daily as a photographer, helped him sharpen his visual skills. He holds two patents in the USPTO. After years of experience around USA and New York, he is back in Mumbai, India- but you are likely to find him in Thailand, Angkor and Bali. He has put on hold an ambitious automated web design project till browsers support minimal design principles of alignment, transparency, font licensing, scalable graphics, and copyright protection- across all versions on desktop and pdas- consistently. Till then stick to PDFs and Print ISBNs, mate. He is now involved in travel content creation and mapping software at his travel company. He experiments with publish on-demand technologies for print and ebooks. In his free time, he writes/blogs about sports- Cricket, Chess, Table Tennis, 9-ball Pool, Snooker and Billiards but enjoys Soccer, Tennis, and Basketball as well. He feels strongly about many issues- big and small which are affecting us today and will have an impact tomorrow. Sources of my ideas |