http://wiki.sunson.in/ 2010-06-02T22:59:32+00:00 http://wiki.sunson.in/ http://wiki.sunson.in/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-06-01T05:01:46+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/sketching?rev=1275368506&do=diff = Sketching = I love sketching and I have renewed my sketching interests by buying a Wacom Bamboo Pen graphics tablet. You can check out my sketches from my flickr 'Sketches' photoset. text/html 2010-03-08T04:06:39+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/documentaries?rev=1268021199&do=diff Documentaries Here are a list of documentaries that I recommend Peak Oil, Economics and Environment * End of Suburbia * A Crude Awakening * The Crash Course * I.O.U.S.A. * The 11th Hour * Flow - for Love of Water * Global Gardener * Poison on the Platter * The World according to Monsanto text/html 2010-02-15T01:26:29+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/pond_diaries?rev=1266197189&do=diff Pond Diaries Feb 14, 2010 Hello folks. Hows the summer warming up? The water has receded and the second level in the pond is now <http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunson/4357373577/ becoming visible>. Once the second level becomes reasonably dry-enough, I'll start helping plants grow up in the second level. text/html 2010-02-09T09:36:28+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/rain_water_harvesting?rev=1265708188&do=diff Rain Water Harvesting Our farm is a tiny acreage (1.86 acres) farm. Irrigation needs are typically only from feb to jul while the rest of the year is fed by the Cauvery river and reasonably copious rains during the monsoon. 113 cms of rain fall in just 3 months. Catch it or lose it - that's basically our problem. text/html 2010-02-09T07:15:39+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/start?rev=1265699739&do=diff Home About this wiki This is a part of the wiki that is accessible to the outside world. I use this wiki to make some scribblings, reminders, ideas, rants - some of which I want the world to read, some of which I don't want the world to read. Here are a bunch of loosely organised things, in no specific order, about me / about stuff you might be interested in reading about. text/html 2010-01-27T05:49:55+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/organic_paddy?rev=1264571395&do=diff Organic Paddy Updates * 2010-01-27 * Gandakasala is ready for harvest, albeit 2 weeks behind schedule! A soil spoiled by nitrogen fertilizers needs time to recover and as expected, our yield is also much lower than what long-time organic farmers get. We expect about 15% crop loss due to erratic rains. But, many in the neighbourhood lost their entire crops. This only goes to show that Native varieties are the most simplest and best suited for our climatic conditions. * Since no mechani… text/html 2009-12-19T20:05:58+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/music?rev=1261253158&do=diff We all do agree that today's music has been strongly influenced by the music of the past. But when we talk past, we should also talk our entire past, isn't it? Every known civilization has had some form of music and dance. The fossil record traces of mankind's tryst with Music goes way back to the days when we were busy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_musicology sending the mammoth to extinction>. And then the ice age passed... not without impacts. We were shrunk to a population of a… text/html 2009-12-15T06:51:38+00:00 Suraj http://wiki.sunson.in/work:learnings?rev=1260859898&do=diff Learnings OS stuff Dec 15 2009 * ulimit no of open files need to be tweaked for servers that keep sockets open (since sockets are nothing but files) * ntp shouldn't sync from ntp.ubuntu and instead must do so from a local ntpd