I had been meaning to install Ubuntu on my system just to get a crack at it (its been ages since my last Red Hat 6 installation), but never mustered up the patience to actually sit through a full installation. I registered and mail ordered a free copy of the Read more…
Funny satirical news from theonion.com, Bush Acknowledges Existence Of Carbon Dioxide .onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline;}.onion_embed a.img {float: left !important;margin: 0 5px 0 0 !important;width: 66px;display: Read more…
A post on aftermathnews (originally from WorldNetDaily.com | Dec 21, 2007) was concerning because it detailed of the rejection of the Climate change issue by prominent scientists. A few qoutes off a scientist (research physicist John W. Brosnahan, who develops remote-sensing instruments for atmospheric science for clients including the National Read more…
Heap41a is a worm/virus which constantly annoys you with messageboxes like “I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…” or “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!” or “USE INTERNET EXPLORER U DOPE” on trying to opening firefox, accessing youtube or Read more…
The Mountain GIS e-Conference jointly being organized by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Mountain Forum Secretariat (MFS) (Nepal), is around the corner coming new year (2008). It is slated for 14-25 of January, 2008. Hopefully, this e-conference will help solve a lot of queries particular to Read more…
Purely on whim, I googled “Nepal” and “blog” and came up with an interesting number of hits, the most conspicuous and interesting being blogdai – a blogger who seems to have been around for a number of years. Blogdai is an anonymous blogger who has an interesting take ( a Read more…
I had just started to assimilate a relatively new term for me – “neogeography” courtesy of Wikimapia, Google Earth, Wikipedia, Blinkgeo and Slashgeo. I have been in awe at the wonders what crowdsourcing could do to facilitate a more user generated supported and verified geospatial data that is free for Read more…
At work, I have been consistently using a pet bottle (a bottle of Kinley product of Coca cola) that I smuggled in from India, for the past 6 months for ferry water from the water dispenser. Over time it has scrunched up and developed grooves all over it body, greatly Read more…
I still remember my induction into the Web 2.0 craze and me going all bonkers about a web company supposedly going to share its profits with its user group (that would also include a very exuberant me). Sadly, the group fizzled out before paying up. Here’s an excerpt of the Read more…
What’s great about America? Everything (maybe). Its the land of opportunity and the land of freedom. The state respects the citizen’s freedom of speech and ideology. Fascists, leftists, chauvinists, environmentalists, animal activists; all seem to have made their niches in the United States of America. It is a good thing Read more…