Sublimity…

I know I haven’t written in awhile, but right now I only have a little time, so sorry, the stories from Thailand are going to have to wait a little longer. However, I’m happy to say that I’ve improved my turn-around speed on photos dramatically (compared to the 1+ month delay on the Rajasthan & Gujarat photos) and so photos from Thailand are now online! As an added bonus, I’ve also posted some photos from my time working in the Himalaya with PSI, they’ll give you a sense of what life is like there and hopefully will help fill out my writings about the place (though there’s more to come there too, I’ve got another 3 months with PSI working there).

And finally, with all these nice new photos, I figured it was a good time to do an upgrade of the gallery and add some new features. First off, there is now an integrated rating system so you can let the world (and more importantly me) know what photos you like. All you have to do is put your mouse over the photo you want to rate, and after a second or two, a little box appears showing the name and details of the photo (date taken, # comments, # views etc) and then has 5 stars. As you move your mouse over the stars, they change colour, and by clicking on the appropriate star, you can “stamp” your approval rating on it. The stars show the average user rating at the start, but after you’ve rated a photo, it will remember your rating. Pretty cool eh, now all you have to do is go check it out and use it… Also, I’ve added RSS feeds to all the albums that stream new and updated photos, and have integrated this into the main website sidebar. This means that now you can easily tell from the main page whether there are new photos, rather than having to actually visit the Gallery regularly. I’m going to try to keep up this new streak of quickly posting photos, but I may not be able to or I may not write stories about all the photos I post, so this will be an easy way for you to find out what’s new here.

And just to satisfy your curiousity, Thailand was awesome (fairly different than I expected) and I’m now safe back in crazy India (which seems even more unique now that I have more perspective) and will be continuing with PSI until the end of June. Most of the time I’ll be in the mountains (so excuse the long periods of no posting and no emails), which is good becuase it’s getting hot here. Work is going – it’s still frustrating at times and though we’ve sorted some things out, there is still a lot of confusion about my project. No one knows where we’ll end up, but it’s going well enough for me to stay on.

So go enjoy the photos, and keep checking back for upcoming details about Thailand and my work in India. And for all you suckers still in school, good luck in exams – seems like such a strange concept to me here & now, but I guess that’s life.

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