Year: 2009

Google Chrome OS in Vmware

I couldn’t resist myself from trying Google’s Chrome OS that got everyone buzzing. Engadget has a very helpful video – How-to: run Chrome OS as a virtual machine. The image they’ve used is from gdgt. Another useful how to is

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Palden Dorje Plans to Give Blessings to Pilgrims and to Protest Animal Sacrifice at Ancient Festival

Interesting development around Ram Bahadur Bomjan (Buddha Boy). He’s planning to give blessings and to protest animal sacrifice just ahead of gadimai festival. From November 19th to the 24th, 2009 Palden Dorje a.k.a. Ram Bahadur Bomjan will be giving blessings

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WordPress Upgrade and New Look

Finally, I’ve upgraded my wordpress installation to latest and greatest 2.8.4. I’m impressed with the latest version of wordpress. The admin section is sleek, intuitive and has several new features. I like the cool single-click auto upgrade feature. For my

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She’s here to complete our family

A quick note to share a moment of joy in my life with all of you. We had a baby daughter day before yesterday (14th July at 2 pm). Both mum and baby are doing fine. She weighed 3.66 kg

Unboxing Nikon D90

After getting myself into Amazon marketplace mess, finally my newly ordered D90 has arrived. D90 is the very first DSLR to do HD video. I’ve taken few pictures and video with it and I’m impressed. The crisp quality pictures you

My Son’s Saturdays and Sundays

My son’s fathers day gift to me 🙂 He’s now 8 and half. Here’s a masterpiece he made when he was 5 and half.

Amazon Marketplace scam

For last few months I’d been craving for a DSLR. I thought it was about time to take a step forward from my old point n shoot Canon Powershot S50 and upgrade it to a decent DSLR. BTW, my wife

No display in MacBook Pro – NVIDIA graphics processor failed

Suddenly my MacBook Pro failed to wake up from it’s sleep. I thought it’s one of those problems which gets fixed after a hard reboot, but I was wrong! There’s no display after several power cycles. My MBP is one

Sourcefire and SFCP Certification

Hurray…! My intense work for last couple of weeks has finally paid off. Yeah, I’ve just passed my SFCP (Source Fire Certified Professional) Certification Exam. First briefly about the company – Sourcerfire was founded by the author of Snort (an

Shame on the Hong Kong police who shot an unarmed homeless Nepali man

I felt very sad and angry after hearing this news… A Hong Kong police constable shot dead an unarmed homeless Nepali man. A life was lost unnecessarily. Why? Because a policeman couldn’t subdue a single suspect with pepper spray and

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