This was/is one of my silent resolutions of 2010. Amidst all the hype with the new venture dead centre in Kathmandu, I had my mind set on boycotting the eatery! Why? This resolution gained ground, primarily because I did not want to pay a shit load for Brazilian chicken KFC supposedly Read more…
This is straight off Picasa’s new features page. It had me stumped. I even checked and double checked if I had been bumped to 11 GB as well. (Picasa web albums normally allows you to have up to 1gb of space for photos free of charge). A redesigned Settings page Read more…
http://www.wordle.net/. Images of Wordles are licensed . Pasted below is my “word cloud” generated from Wordle simply by providing my URI, which I tried out after reading a post on the Km4dev discussion forum. The FAQs listed on the wordle website mention that the size of the words in the Read more…
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 Network (SAYEN) and the Youth for clean Air document. The 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 D“. The corporate terminology supposedly encompasses a lot more; changes 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 2008) celebrations were any fanfare. I hardly saw any of 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 handful disgruntled protestors, affiliated to “Mano kranti Abhiyan” stripped and 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 of booooooze, we tend to be in a jovial mood 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 had no mp3 support, no video support (The Codecs are 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. I registered and mail ordered a free copy of the Read more…