Canucks Fan, Software Developer, and proud Father of two
Here are some pictures of the kids taken by my good friend Phil using his Panasonic Lumix. The cloudy weather we’ve been having in the month of June served as the backdrop to these outdoor pictures. Phil did some photo editing using Lightroom on his Mac. He uploaded the pics onto the SmugMug website which has a real nice interface for photo sharing.
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Here are some pictures from our family trip with the kids to San Diego. The trip included a visit to the San Diego Zoo and multiple visits to SeaWorld.
A special thanks to all our family and friends who were able to attend Nishaan’s first birthday party at Khaana Peena Restaurant. With all the Olympic festivities going on in the city, it was good to see everyone make it out to this special event.
We went to the Men’s Luge event in Whistler this past weekend to take in the festivities. Indian luger Shiva Keshaven made a big splash with the local community. Team India first took notice with the issue of mismatched uniforms.
Our group also made a big splash on a few networks around the world.
Here we are on Omni news
And here we are on CTV
We also made it to the picture gallery on the NBC Olympic website
And finally after all this coverage, we got an interview with RJ1200 from Vancouver who happens to be the official sponsor of Team India for the Winter Olympics
If your kids are like mine, they are fascinated with the keyboard. Check out the free app that you can download called Babysmash. It will load up in full screen mode and allow your toddler to bang on the keyboard without starting any other apps on your Windows machine. Pretty cool.
Over two decades after the great trade, Peter Berg of ESPN Films presents Kings Ransom that dissects the trade and shows you footage of the trade that you probably never seen before including the day of the trade, his wedding day, and a candid conversation with Berg about what could have been if he remained an Oiler. The clip below is a 5 minute excerpt from the 1 hour documentary that was on ESPN and TSN.
The World Ball Hockey Championships are in the Czech Republic this year and thanks to live streaming videos, we have the opportunity to watch local stars from Metro Vancouver and across Canada suit up for Team India for this years international championships.
The Championships will take place from June 13 – 20, 2009 with video highlights from the following games available through the World Championship and CBHA website’s:
Sunday June 14 – INDIA vs SLOVAKIA
Monday June 15 – INDIA vs CZECH REPUBLIC
Tuesday June 16 – INDIA vs SWISS
Please note that all Men’s QF, SF & Final games will be live streamed on the web.
Women’s Bronze & Gold Medal games will be shown as well as Closing Ceremonies.
The funniest part of the trip was when a couple of the guys decided to pull out this paddle boat.
This has to be the funniest song for the NHL Playoffs this year.
The song and video was created by two die hard Flames fans from Calgary Arun Lalka and Shubh Sidhu
I decided to run a baby pool again for our 2nd upcoming baby. The due date has been scheduled for February 20th. You can make your predictions at this website. Good luck to all.
Entering Geek Talk …
What makes this website different is that it is being hosted “on the cloud”. I was able to learn about the new cloud services operating system called Windows Azure at Microsoft’s 2008 PDC conference in L.A. With the help of the tutorials online from the conference, I was able to use ASP.NET MVC in combination with building the app on the cloud. Microsoft is inviting developers to try out the Azure platform for a year before they come up with a pricing structure for the cloud service.
… End Geek Talk. Phew!