https://sricola.com/Recent content on Sri Ray | sricolahttps://sricola.com/travel/not-so-fast/img/social-card.jpghttps://sricola.com/travel/not-so-fast/img/social-card.jpgHugo -- 0.167.0enhttps://sricola.com/blog/air-india-cannot-be-emirates/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/air-india-cannot-be-emirates/Air India will survive. The Gulf-style hub Tata promised in 2022 will not, because everything that makes a hub is decided by the Indian government, mostly against it.https://sricola.com/travel/not-so-fast/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/travel/not-so-fast/A twelve-day motorcycle journey across Ladakh, over Khardung La to the Nubra Valley, Pangong Tso and Zanskar, ending on foot at Phugtal monastery.https://sricola.com/blog/drydock/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/drydock/Drydock runs Claude Code or Codex in a throwaway, hardware-isolated VM on macOS. No real API key inside, egress denied by default, only approved diffs get out.https://sricola.com/blog/japan-on-film/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/japan-on-film/Japan shot on 35mm film with a 1968 Konica C35, a pocket rangefinder with a Hexanon 38mm f/2.8 lens: rich, contrasty frames from the trip.https://sricola.com/blog/japan-finepix-z70/Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/japan-finepix-z70/Sample photos from Japan shot on a 2010 Fujifilm FinePix Z70, a 12MP ultra-compact digicam with a 5x optical zoom.https://sricola.com/blog/london-z35/Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/london-z35/Sample photos from London shot on a 2009 Fujifilm FinePix Z35, a slim 10MP point-and-shoot digicam.https://sricola.com/blog/cities-in-motion/Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/cities-in-motion/A city in motion is a living symphony—every street a melody, every face a note in its ever-changing score.https://sricola.com/blog/hong-kong/Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/hong-kong/Hong Kong on 35mm film with a 1971 Olympus 35 DC and Kodak 400: ding ding trams, Man Mo Temple, cha chaan tengs, Sheung Wan and sunsets over Victoria Harbour.https://sricola.com/blog/cross-country/Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/cross-country/A 2020 road trip across the United States in photos: Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Zion, the Grand Canyon, the Tetons, the Bonneville flats, Chicago and Seattle.https://sricola.com/blog/mta/Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/mta/How NYC subway ridership collapsed in March 2020, station by station, using weekly MTA turnstile data from before and after the COVID-19 restrictions.https://sricola.com/blog/apple-card/Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/apple-card/A 2019 launch review of the Apple Card: the interface, the Goldman Sachs backing, and whether the rewards made it worth carrying at the time.https://sricola.com/blog/after-a-million-miles/Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/after-a-million-miles/Hard-won lessons from a million miles in the air — from being kind to cabin crew to why you should never walk barefoot on a plane.https://sricola.com/blog/lga-expressway-approach/Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:55:38 -0400https://sricola.com/blog/lga-expressway-approach/How the Expressway Visual to Runway 31 at LaGuardia works: no ILS, no glideslope, a right turn over the Long Island Expressway and a left bank around Citi Field, flown by hand.https://sricola.com/blog/32-a-year/Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/32-a-year/78 flights, 173,539 miles, 14 countries, and finally signing a lease after two years on the road.https://sricola.com/blog/31-a-year/Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/31-a-year/A year of constant travel across six continents, 30,000 miles in 10 days, and the search for something that feels like home.https://sricola.com/blog/incident-response/Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/incident-response/What the crash landing of British Airways Flight 38 teaches us about incident response — think fast, act fast, delegate fast.https://sricola.com/blog/tech-in-my-backpack/Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/tech-in-my-backpack/The gear that keeps a full-time remote worker connected across 6 continents, 17 countries, and 7 time zones — everything has to earn its place.https://sricola.com/blog/checklists/Thu, 18 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/checklists/Why no production operation is too small for a checklist, and how to write one that your team can actually use under pressure.https://sricola.com/blog/most-wanted-iphone-feature/Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/most-wanted-iphone-feature/Forget the dual camera — the iPhone feature a digital nomad actually needs is a carrier-agnostic SIM that works everywhere.https://sricola.com/blog/2015-black-and-white/Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://sricola.com/blog/2015-black-and-white/A year of travel in black and white photographs: Aachen, Bombay, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Istanbul, and the American West from the Golden Gate to the Tetons.https://sricola.com/blog/baarle-hertog-baarle-nassau/Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:55:38 -0400https://sricola.com/blog/baarle-hertog-baarle-nassau/Why is Baarle-Hertog like that? How a land deal in 1198 left 22 Belgian enclaves inside the Netherlands, with the border running through houses, shops and cafés.https://sricola.com/blog/schumacher-isnt-my-hero/Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:55:38 -0400https://sricola.com/blog/schumacher-isnt-my-hero/‘Life lessons from Michael Schumacher — on winning at all costs, acting before worrying, and never giving up no matter the odds.’https://sricola.com/blog/an-ode-to-a-dying-friend/Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:55:38 -0400https://sricola.com/blog/an-ode-to-a-dying-friend/A farewell to BlackBerry — the company that invented the smartphone, and how it lost the plot from scroll wheels to touchscreens.