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What Do Computers tell us about God?: A reflection of a Computer Scientist…

Pink Floyd has released a box set of all their classic 14 studio albums to celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary. It’s called “Oh By The Way”. Their official web site has a flash ad page for it and it’s a must visit. This is the best web ad I’ve ever seen in the internet, it’s just breath taking, and as stunning as their music!

2007 has been an exciting year for me. I moved to a new place, changed jobs and am enjoying new environment, new culture and new opportunities… I’ve made some new friends and the life seems wonderful. I’m very content with what year 2007 has given me, and am looking forward to more challenges, fun, love, peace and spiritual development in 2008.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my readers, friends and family a VERY HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2008!

I remember being admitted to a boarding school when I was in class 6 (around 12 years old). From that time I’ve been living away from home (most of the time). Trying to make new homes, a home away from home…, In 1990 I left my home town Pokhara to join Amrit Science College in Kathmandu. In 1992 I left my country, and flew to Russia, where I completed my higher education and lived for 6 years. I came back to Nepal in 1998, and started my IT career. Came to Hong Kong in 1999, where I have been living with my wife and son since then.

Hong Kong has been a special place for me both in personal and professional aspect. Personally, my married life started together with my wife here, my son was born here, I’ve made many friends, and overall I find Hong Kong very friendly and peaceful place to live (except the buildings are too tall and your living apartments are too small). Professionally, I had an opportunity to work in a very interesting company (Japanese), where I grew up to become an IT System, Networking and Security Professional. I obtained some well respected professional certifications like CISSP, CCNA, ACP, and earned my Masters Degree in IT. Hong Kong has been a nice stop in my life, but the journey continues…, I’m leaving Hong Kong, this time the destination is UK. I’m moving to UK in August 2007, with my family. By moving to UK, I hope to improve the quality of life for my family in the long term, and I think I’ll have more interesting opportunities to grow professionally as well. If anyone in UK is looking for someone with my background (pdf), feel free to contact me or email me at niranjan.kunwar@gmail.com.

I’m having mixed feelings at this stage. A lot of excitement and some uncertainty at times. I’m observing my feelings with great interest. I’ve learned to watch my own feelings, and chatter in the head up to some extent, thanks to mindfulness meditation. It’s amazing to step back and observe what your mind is doing. This gives some clarity and helps make important decisions. I truly believe that life is a journey, not a destination, and I’m really enjoying this new phase of my journey that’s about to begin.

Any tips (for a newcomer) from people living in the UK will be very much appreciated. You can leave comments or contact me.

Ok England, here comes one more geek!

• The Arrow of Time - This family takes a picture of themselves every year. They started in 1976. You can see each one of their 3 boys transform into adults.
• Advice to Young Men from an Old Man - Read all of them, specially the last one.
• I Think My Wife Is Cheating On Me: Why Men Are Never Published In Dear Abby.

I was lucky to get my hand on the AppleTV early enough. I’ve taken some photos, enjoy…

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Strange and unusual deaths…

Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world’s longest beard (it was 4.5 feet or nearly 1.4 m long) and for dying because of it.

One day in 1567, there was a fire in town and in his haste Hans forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died!

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Just wanted to share some striking images that I came across recently. I’ve compiled them here (in no particular order), I think they’re very powerful, and convey something that would be very difficult to express with words alone, so I stop my useless words here, take a look…, there’s no doubt that a picture is worth a thousand words!

Hiroshima, the pictures they didn’t want us to see (This is something we must NEVER forget).

The Most Dangerous Roads in the World (Includes Nepalese roads too)

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A list of Top 50 Occupations and Their Projected 10 Year Growth

The Top 50 Occupations were selected in the following way:

* A “Top 50 rating” was created by multiplying the Projected Need for Employees times the Median Hourly Wage.
* Occupations whose Median Wage is less than $20/hr were eliminated.
* Of the remaining occupations, only the top 50 were selected.

It’s an amazing experiment. I was touched by it, this just demonstrates what a difference one single human being can make.