The earthquakes that shook Taiwan yesterday, killed 2 when a building collapsed, and injured at least 40. The quake also damaged undersea cables that disrupted Telecommunications and Internet connections around Asia.
When I went to office this morning, after 3 days Christmas holiday, the phone was constantly ringing, with customers query about Internet and Email [...]
Ram Bahadur Bomjon, popularly known as Buddha Boy, who disapperead in March this year has been spotted near a dense forest in Pathlaiya nijgadh, on Sunday night. Local hunters, who had been out hunting in the jungle spotted Bomjon first.
Few things we know from media after his reappearance:
He looked slender than before, was in grimy [...]
The comment and trackback spams had been a headache for me. Every blogger understands how annoying they are and how unproductive they can make you. Besides from being a blogger, I maintain systems that hosts many wordpress blogs. The good news for a normal blogger who uses wordpress is that the built-in Akismet anti-spam in [...]
I switched from Microsoft to Apple on desktop, but on mobile I’m jumping (trying) from Palm to Microsoft. I’ve bought a Dopod 720w, which runs windows mobile 5 smartphone edition. It’s gorgeous and slim, with bright screen, Wi-Fi, Edge, Gprs, push e-mail, excellent call quality and long talk time battery life. You can listen to [...]
UWB has posted a recently taken photo of Ram’s mother and sister in No News of Buddha boy but the life goes on…
A significant number of users land in my blog searching for the keywords “buddha boy”, “meditating boy”, “boy with extraordinary powers”, “the boy with divine powers”, “buddha boy update”, “ram bahadur bomjon” and [...]
Security Absurdity: The Complete, Unquestionable, And Total Failure of Information Security. Noam Eppel writes how the Internet security is failing and what can be done about it. He compares the current state of security industry with a boiling frog:
They say if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will, of course, [...]
I wanted to upload these photos for a long time and now finally after a long procrastination I’ve managed to post them. Enjoy…
Bindabashini Temple, Pokhara.
A young priest in Shiva Temple. It was an amazing and peaceful experience to receive a tika from him. His mantra chanting is very professional.
Email has just turned 35 and it’s very difficult to imagine working without the emails today. Here are few interesting links to Email and it’s history.
IT programmer Ray Tomlinson sent the first message in late 1971.
The test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them. Most likely the first message was QUERTYIOP or [...]
This is the news that I and millions of other Nepalese were waiting for. War is officially over in Nepal. The government of Nepal and Maoist rebels have signed a historic peace accord, which ends the 10 years of fighting that killed more than 13 thousand people. This brings an end to the politics of [...]
It’s an amazing experiment. I was touched by it, this just demonstrates what a difference one single human being can make.
