It all started in late 2003, when I decided that I should share a little of what happened to me with my family back in India. However, the minute I created my blog, I conveniently forgot all about this purpose and it has never been a chronicle or a collection of my experiences. It has more been a random assortment of what I am feeling, thinking, talking, reading, doing, not doing, ranting about, and other such crap. A year and a half down the line, my blogs still continue to symbolise my persona - random spurts of disorganized activity between long periods of hibernation. I like to think that I have created at least a vague bio-sketch of the person that I am right now. Something that I can read several years down the line and smile.

Another reason for these blogs has been my constant refusal to slip into mediocrity. Lately, I've been having nightmares about becoming 'just another person' and not the trailblazing, charismatic, enigmatic, charming, noticeable egocentric ****** that I always wanted to be. Perhaps, it was in one such fit of paranoia that I created my first blog. Originally called the 'Grind of Grad School', it was hosted on Lycos for a few months. I later decided to rehost it on Blogger, as I liked the template system they had come up with. It stayed there for a year, but now stands rechristened 'Resonant Cavity' at its current location.

A few months after my weblog, I followed up with a photoblog. Somewhat around the same time that Blogger pulled Hello into its interfaces. I decided it was time to pursue my long-cherished dream of shooting (with a camera) with a little more involvement.

My experience till then had revolved around an ancient Kodak, several point-and-shoots and a cumbersome digital. With my second paycheck, I bought a medium priced digital that I thought would let me explore without inundating me with technicalese. Once I was past the digital-newbie euphoria, I think my pictures settled down a little. I currently use a Fujifilm Finepix S5000, a Nikon N65 35mm SLR and occasionally, my Nokia 6620. And I am not yet rich enough to buy the digital SLR, dual-back medium format, wide-angles, fish eyes and filters that I want to. However, you are welcome to gift any/ all of these to me :).

I am still exploring different styles and trying to decide if I am a natural at anything specific. And I hope to chronicle this discovery on my photoblog, mostly because I think your input will help me learn. My photoblog is now parked where my weblog originally resided, because I feel 'Bits n Pixels' is definitely a photobloggish name.

For people who are on this page from elsewhere on RamPages, I would be really glad if you can take a peek at both my weblog (Resonant Cavity) and my photoblog (Bits 'N Pixels too). If however, you are visiting from one of my blogs, then I hope you've found what you were looking for on this page. Do feel free to look around in RamPages.