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What does your bike do when you are not watching

This made me smile.

Now, I wonder what my stable of bikes are up to when I am at work… I am fine as long as they are back before dark ;)

via copenhagenize

The tiny buttons

I like being alone. But that does not mean that everyone else does too. The social interaction scene is pretty bustling right now (actually has been for a few years now) and I figured at the least, I can be civil. Thence, I decided to make it easy for everyone to share articles from here to wherever they want to share to.

It is probably easy for one to just copy the URL from top and paste it to where they want, but making the process a single button click is just good karma.

So if you find the need to quickly share articles from here, click away at the buttons.

Note: It seems like a clever marketing ploy to alleviate my Analytic Depression. But the truth is that my brother has been pounding my head with his experiments in social networking and I finally found a nice plugin to add these buttons painlessly.

Peter The Great

Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov. You can read all about him on the wiki pages. He founded St.Petersburg. A truly charming town and probably the most European’ised in Russia. It is probably the nicest place I visited West of the Urals.

I also think this town is preserved better than most other places after the great Wars. There seems to be some authenticity to the architecture and the tallest structures seem to be the one constructed by Peter. And the other tall structure is that or Peter himself. History has it that he fought the Swedes here and made St. Petersburg an important port town too. Incidentally, St. Petersburg was meant to be a model of Modern Russian in the 17th Century.

Since I was in the mode of shooting panoramas, I shot this one as a 7 shot sequence too and made a deepzoom composition. I wished there were some people for scale but it was a sunny but cold and windy day, so no luck there. It is really a tall structure, you can observe the apartments at the background for scale.

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