It’s an official holiday here in Hong Kong today for Dragon Boat festival, also known as Tuen Ng Festival. The main attraction of the festival is the fierce dragon boats racing. We woke up early this morning and headed to Stanley beach for the Stanley Dragon Boat Championships. It was cloudy and raining in the [...]
June issue of GQ will have a feature story THE INCREDIBLE BUDDHA BOY by George Saunders (the author of In Persuasion Nation). First portion of the story is available online which describes Saunder’s journey to Nepal. It should be very interesting to read the first hand experience of an author who went in search of [...]
Our MacBook Pro is back from the Apple repair, with their usual response – "heat is within apple spec". But after updating MBP with this SMC firmware I feel it’s slightly cooler than before and fans are kicking more often. I used CoreDuo Temp to measure the CPU temperature; before the update max. temperature during [...]
I’ve a five and half year old boy who loves to play PS2, computer games and watch cartoons. Almost every time after watching a cartoon he’ll draw his favorite character, colour it, cut it and play with it for a while. This is a small collection of his art work, mainly super heroes on his [...]
I found this hilarious article Girlfriend 6.0 vs. Wife 1.0 Comparative Trial via del.icio.us . It’s a must read for married geeks
Last year a friend of mine upgraded from GirlFriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog leaving very little system resources available for other applications. He is now [...]
American war correspondent Kevin Sites is currently reporting from Nepal writing about his personal encounter with maoist rebels. Traveling with him as a translator is Nepalese blogger and journalist Dinesh Wagle of UWB who has written about Kevin in his blog article Backpack Journalist Kevin Sites in Kathmandu.
In his Hot Zone, Kevin Sites have videos, [...]
From time to time I feel a pain in my neck and upper back. And I know why! It’s due to the prolonged use of computer, not giving proper attention to my posture and not taking regular breaks. A Cnet story Your computer may be a pain in the neck explains postural syndrome which is [...]
Microsoft has announced the hardware requirements for it’s new operating system Windows Vista set to be released on Jan 2007. They’ve launched the Get Ready web site to help users choose the right hardware. The requirement are divided into 2 categories. The first one is a "Vista Capable" that fulfills the minimum requirement to run [...]
This is truly a historic moment for Nepal and Nepalese people. The proposal that was unanimously passed by The House of Representatives today brings army under the parliament, King will have to pay tax and Nepal becomes a Secular Country. This is a great occasion to celebrate but we always need to remember that the [...]
With the release of MacBook, now Apple has complete line up of Intel Macs. If you’re planning to buy a new Intel Mac here is a good Apple Mac-Intel Simplified Buying Guide.
I want to buy a MacBook Pro for myself but with the first hand experience of heat…I’m not sure. I’m tempted for MacBook [...]
