Out of focus...

View from our balcony on a foggy & rainy morning.. pic was unintentionally out of focus!

Easy life..

"If you want an easy life, take a sledge hammer and hit with it on your head. Even food will come till your mouth." - Goldratt Eliyahu (The Choice)

ps: anyways.. this picture is out of context here. It is of a door to the entrance of a temple. I took this long time back when was on a trip, visiting hell a lot of temples :D

Tired..

I'm feeling very much tired today! I guess, I need to take some days off..

Love..

.. is a double edged sword when the things fail to work!!

You can't hurt your loved one at the same time you can't keep on hurting yourself.

ps: Words of wisdom from a friend on a funny moment, long faded with age.

To-Do's

I have been blessed with selective short term memory loss. :D Interesting thing is, it is on positve trend.. ;).

What would this mean? My experience is becoming very short lived. Typically in the order of hours. Happiness, sadness(?), frustration, motivation.... everything! So my commitment, associated with those, is also becoming short lived..

Now a days, I'm relying on Organisers, To-Do lists & sticky notes to keep up with my commitments!!

ps: Good Morning World!!

Excel Plots - High DPI

Ever felt dissatisfied about the quality of the plots that excel gives.. ?? I was always.

That is the reason why I use Gnuplot most of the times. But for the not so complex plotting I do in office, if I want to have a presentation worthy diagrams or plots, Gnuplot is two much over kill. Anyways.. I found an alternative today and thought it might be useful for you guys!!

Pre-requisites.. ;)

• Microsoft excel of some version.
• Adobe professional or at least adobe pdf printer that supports your excel Installation.

The procedure:

• format your plot in excel
• click on some location of your plot
• file - print - Adobe pdf.
• and print it (you can set your required dpi settings in the advanced options of the print dialog)

you have your plot as pdf file. What is more important is, it will be a vector graphic. Use your good old tricks like zooming in and copying in the graphic from a pdf file and you will have very clean plot of yours ready for presentation. If you want to do the same zooming in excel you will mess up with the fonts... :D

Here is the proof.

This one is taken from pdf.

This one is directly copied and pasted from excel.

ps: Click on the plots. You can clearly make out the smoothness difference.

Puzzle pieces..

It has been real long time since I enjoyed me working...

ps: I felt that the above line is enough to tell my state of mind today! Anyways, I was working on a project which is troubling us for a long time.. and as of now, every puzlle piece started to fit their place. I just felt like, I contributed real well.. :)