Posted on October 9, 2021
(Last modified on October 16, 2021)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
The Lotus story so far My very first experience with water flowering plants was pretty good. I learnt a good deal of things; from setting up the pond, germinating the lotus seeds, setting up the right soil, witnessing the growth of the lotus plant, fish eco-system to take care of the pond. Overall, a lot of things learnt.
But I couldn’t succeed in getting the Lotus flower. A lot many reasons.
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Posted on July 7, 2021
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I was quite impressed by the ability of this insect; yet to be. The way it has camouflaged itself is mesmerizing. I’ll let the video do the talking as this one is going to be difficult to express in words.
Posted on June 29, 2021
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| 1959 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
This blog post is about my observations of some of the plants in my home garden.
While still a n00b on the subject, these notes are my observations and experiences over days, weeks and months. Thankfully, with the capability to take frequent pictures, it has been easy to do an assessment and generate a report of some of these amazing behaviors of plants, in an easy timeline order; all thanks to the EXIF data embedded.
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Posted on May 22, 2021
(Last modified on May 29, 2021)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
As a person who prefers full access to data in the simplest format, while at the same time having it useful with latest technologies, my quest for trying things out is an ongoing activity.
Earlier, I blogged about my needs of collating news feeds in a simple format, readily accessible offline, while still being useful and aligned with the modern paradigm.
In today’s age, the other common aspect of our life, is digitization of moments.
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Posted on April 23, 2021
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Pandemic With COVID-19, this was the first nation-wide lockdown in my lifetime I’ve witnessed. I guess the feel must be same for many many more people across the globe.
It was almost the same time, a year ago, when this lockdown first struck.
It being the first time, I wasn’t then really prepared on how to handle it. With everything literally shut down, there was nothing to do than sit where you are.
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Posted on April 19, 2021
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I’ve mostly had the preference of controlling my data rather than depend on someone else. That’s one reason why I still believe email to be my most reliable medium for data storage, one that is not plagued/locked by a single entity. If I had the resources, I’d prefer all digital data to be broken down to its simplest form for storage, like email format, and empower the user with it i.
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Posted on October 3, 2020
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Curiosity I guess this would be common to most of us.
While I grew up, right from the childhood itself, the sky was always an intriguing view. The Stars, the Moon, the Eclipses; were all fascinating.
As a child, in my region, religion and culture; the mythology also built up stories around it. Lunar Eclipses have a story of its own. During Solar Eclipses, parents still insist that we do not go out.
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Posted on June 16, 2020
(Last modified on June 17, 2020)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Setting up a Sony PS3 Blu-Ray Disc Remote Controller with Kodi TLDR; Since most of the articles on the internet were either obsolete or broken, I’ve chosen to write these notes down in the form of a blog post so that it helps me now and in future, and hopefully others too.
Raspberry Pi All this time, I have been using the Raspberry Pi for my HTPC needs. The first RPi I acquired was in 2014 and I have been very very happy with the amount of support in the community and quality of the HTPC offering it has.
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Posted on October 30, 2019
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Integrating Comments on Hugo with Isso Oh! Boy. Finally been able to get something set up almost to my liking. After moving away from Drupal to Hugo, getting the commenting system in place was challenging. There were many solutions but I was adamant to what I wanted.
Simple. Something very simple so that I can spend very limited time to tickle with (especially 2 years down the line) Independent. No Google/Facebook/3rd Party dependency Simple workflow.
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Posted on October 5, 2019
(Last modified on October 12, 2019)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Experiences setting up a Lotus Pond Pot A novice’s first time experience setting up a Lotus pond and germinating the Lotus seeds to a full plant The trigger Our neighbors have a very nice Lotus setup in the front of their garden, with flowers blooming in it. It is really a pleasing experience to see it. With lifestyles limiting to specifics, I’m glad to be around with like minded people. So we decided to set up a Lotus Pond Pot in our garden too.
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