Took the long weekend to go to Dandeli in North Karnataka. Having heard so much about the forest over the years, maybe I expected too much. Species density for both, flora and fauna – was decidedly low although the forest itself looked lush enough at first glance. However, being mostly Teak plantation, even that tattered [...]

Yesterday was the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the office building I’ve designed at Khairne – Navi Mumbai.

Made a flying visit to Pune to meet potential consultants for dealing with grey and kitchen waste water. At the very least, we’d like to deliver kitchen water to the landscaped areas of the garden. If possible, the soapy shower/washing machine water can be filtered and reused for flushing. Sometimes, people hesitate to adopt such [...]

Bill Landskroener from the US very kindly took the trouble to write in with a new link from which you can download OttoPDF – a stand-along freeware utility that converts AutoCAD drawings to PDF files. The developer pulled the plug on the app and downloads were hard to find. [...]

Having reloaded the system from scratch because of repeated crashes, I realised that some things needed to be relearned at my end. One that nearly drove me crazy was AutoCAD’s insistence on putting the buzzsaw, RedSpark and PointA icons in the “Save” dialog box. Now it’s easy to get [...]