KFC went from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC because it started serving a lot more items along with its flagship product -fried chicken, not because it uses featherless chicken. 😀 If you get the following email in your inbox, head over to snopes.com to appease any such qualms or better yet Read more…
Stumbled upon this tool – Google Insights for Search from Google via delicious. I thought it was Google Hot trends zeitgeist revamped! But it seems, it is branded as a separate product that is similar to Google Trends but better – it allows you to download stats and even embed Read more…
image via wordlink This is Worldlink’s pitch for a VOIP solution -“World Call” that it launched time ago. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the hoarding board on a rooftop in New baneswor, – “What a crappy piece of advertisement!” The slogan “The feel of BEING Read more…
I got an invite to Facebook lite, today. Here’s what the text looked like… “You have been selected as a beta tester for Facebook Lite! We are building a faster, simpler version of Facebook that we call Facebook Lite. It’s not finished yet and we have plenty of kinks to Read more…
My rants haven’t surfaced on the blogosphere this new year, mainly because I have been busy. 🙁 I haven’t been working 24/7 this past month – I simply haven’t had the opportunity. As a matter of fact, I got very little done this past month. And yes, the primary reason Read more…
While declaring a “national energy crisis” in Nepal, our government green signaled a plan to develop a 200 MW thermal plant. Generating power eight hours a day for 240 days in a year, the plant will incur a yearly loss of more than Rs 5 billion (which too will be Read more…
Climate Change is not a myth but a natural process and it seems we humans have had quite a role in accelerating it, hence the mention of “anthropogenic emissions” wherever and whenever climate change is mentioned. Reducing the carbon footprint comes as a viable alternative that conscious citizens from developed Read more…
I shared my earlier post with quite a number of friends and most seem to have misjudged my stance on climate change. I have never denied that climate change/global warming is an issue. The only bothersome aspect about climate change lies in the communication – the fear mongering, and associating Read more…
Ignorance is bliss, or is it? What if, we were all oblivious to the pesticides, antibiotics in our food, the smoke/smog in our atmosphere, the toxins in the drinking water and the problems with all our daily lives (carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, “tennis elbow”) and a lot others. Wouldn’t life Read more…
This is exactly as Google said it. I was minding my business, researching material for a work project and then lo.. Google lowjacked me with this.. :=] We’re sorry… … but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we Read more…