I attended the National stakeholder meeting on the “Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia” held yesterday at the Himalayan Hotel, courtesy my involvements with the South Asian Youth Environment Read more…
photo from impawards.com Apparently, branding is not just stamping your body with a red hot iron (as they normally do with cattle) or getting the name of your brand magically tattooed on your butt cheeks so they etch out “Tenacious Read more…
With a populace mired into haplessness, because of the fuel shortage (among a lot of other shortages) in place and hence a lower amount of traffic plying on the roads, I wonder if our 58th National Democracy Day (19 February Read more…
This is truly a first for me, and I laughed my arse off (LMAO) when I came across this photo essay. In a conservative Nepalese society, exposing your arse in public is a definite taboo and yet five, among a Read more…
Cheers! Chin Chin!! Salut! Gyambe!! Bottoms up!! are interjections that we as social beings, use while at the water hole, gobbling up goodies and sloshing down mugs/jugs/shots/glasses of alcohol. The usual Friday when friends and/or acquaintances meet for abnormal doses Read more…
Ever been through in a fix while contemplating the purchase or rental of a movie; the jacket can only tell you so much. To top it off, if the cover of a confused pregnant girl gives you second thoughts, you Read more…
““Let them eat cake.”1 Well mud cakes for that matter, for break fast, lunch and dinner. Haitians seem to have resorted to eating mud cakes after basic amenities like (rice, beans and milk) became unaffordable. Rising oil prices meant unaffordable Read more…
After making such big fuss about the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, I washed my hands off it, because it became more of a big bite to chew off, let alone digest. To start with, in the freshly installed Ubuntu system, I Read more…
Tried my hands at point n click map publishing and failed miserably!!!!! But, I haven’t given up hope. Its more like putting it off for later. I started out trying to create a mashup from Google maps pinpointing my house Read more…
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. Read more…