I just heard about the new version of Firefox and tried to download it from the internet explorer. Boo! the start page has no links to Firefox! well u can say its a competitor, but still you shouldn't run away from competition!
mozilla.com looked like this in my internet explorer
and the same site looked like this in Firefox!
no doubt another major competitor opera browser didn't allow Firefox download page either! Losers...
Finally this evening my packet containing Ubuntu Linux arrived. seemed like the packet had (mis)traveled to Malaysia before arriving here in nepal. not many desktop PC users are using linux over here. i'd tried a few linux distros previously, and the buzz these days is definitely with this ubuntu, which was also won the Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award. besides, even the slogan "Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings" does sounds catchy & likable, doesn't it?
i wanted to install the new system on my computer right away but my CD-ROM has been in the junkyard lately. i might buy a new one perhaps this week... i got 5 CDs so i'm definitely gonna make few frens try this new linux in the town! actually there are two CDs in each CD case, one for the regular install and one for the try out version, that is dual install with windows. i'm definitely going for the install CD...
Yo! 2 thumbs up 4 OPEN-SOURCE!
One of the newspapers 'told' me yesterday that i was goin to have a great day yesterday & that i was gonna earn big bucks. duh..forget about getting money, i ended up loosing lots of money. damn.. i don't even remember how i spent so much money yesterday. this morning the horopscope again says i'm gonna earn big today. its a holiday here today & i'm stuck at my room most of the day. can't see where the money is coming from anyway....
actually who believes in horoscopes anyway? just that i can't stop myself from horoscope page of newspaper as soon as i grab it or the odd visits to astrology.com or horoscope.com doesn't mean i believe in horoscope!
I saw this news about "Nepal Boy Called Reincarnation of Buddha" which goes something like this - A teenage boy has been meditating in a Nepalese jungle for six months, and thousands have flocked to see him, with some believing he is the reincarnation of Buddha...
I haven't seen this boy personally but i saw the video few days back on the TV. actually here the news about the boy has already spread like fire for quite a while, saying that he is the God, the Buddha himself..after seeing the video it was so weird. he wasn't the most charming boy that you see everyday but there was something quite intense the way he was sitting there with his eyes closed. after all you don't search for any logic behind a person being alive without food or drink for 6 straight months!
Anyway its a weird world out there!
Don't remember where i got it from but this was freakin funny the last time i read...& couldn't stop laughing this time either..
#In the beginning was the computer. And God said
:Let there be light!
#You have not signed on yet. :God
#Enter user password.
:Omniscient.
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
:Omnipotent.
#Password Incorrect. Try again!
:Technocrat.
#And God signed on 12:01 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
:Let there be light!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again!
:Create light.
#Done.
:Run heaven and earth.
#And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:02 a.m., Sunday, March 1.
#Approx. funds remaining: $92.50.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Monday, March 2.
:Let there be firmament in the midst of the water and
#Unrecognizable command! Try again!
:Create firmament.
#Done.
:Run firmament.
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Monday, March 2.
#Approx. funds remaining: $84.60.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 3.
:Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place
and let the dry land appear and
#Too many characters in string specification! Try again.
:Create dryland.
#Done!
:Run dryland.
#And God created Earth and Seas. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, March 3.
#Approx. funds remaining: $65.00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 4.
:Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night.
#Unspecified type. Try again!
:Create sunmoonstars.
#And God created Sun, Moon, Stars. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, March 4.
#Approx. funds remaining: $54:00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
:Create fish.
#Done.
:Create fowl.
#Done.
:Run fish'nfowl.
#And God created the great seamonsters and every living creature that creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and every
winged fowl after its kind. 0 errors.
#And God signed off at 12:01 a.m., Thursday, March 5.
#Approx. funds remaining: $45.00.
#And God signed on at 12:00 a.m., Friday, March 6.
:Create cattle.
#Done.
:Create creepy things.
#Done.
:Now let us make man in our image.
#Unspecified type! Try again.
:Create man.
#Done.
:Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over of the fowl of the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.
#Too many command operands! Try again.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 6 errors.
:Insert breath.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 5 errors.
:Move man to Garden of Eden.
#Error: File Garden of Eden does not exist.
:Create Gard.En.
#Done.
:Move man to Gard.En.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 4 errors.
:Copy woman from man.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 3 errors.
:Insert woman into man.
#Illegal parameters. Try again!
:Insert man into woman.
#O.K.
:Run multiplication.
#Execution terminated. 2 errors.
:Create desire.
#Done.
:Run multiplication.
#And God saw man'nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
:Create freewill.
#Done.
:Run freewill.
#And God saw man'nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
:Undo desire.
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
:Destroy freewill.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
:Help!
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
:Create Treeofknowledge.
#And God saw man'nwoman being fruitful and multiplying in the Gard.En.
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
:Create good'nevil.
#Done.
:Activate evil.
#And God saw he had created shame.
#Warning: System error in sector E95. Man'nwoman not in Gard.En.
#1 errors.
:Scan Gard.En. for man'nwoman.
#Man'nwoman cannot be located. Try again!
:Search Gard.En. for man'nwoman.
#Search failed.
:Delete shame.
#Shame cannot be deleted once evil has been activated.
:Destroy freewill.
#Freewill an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
:Stop!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
:Break
:Break
:Break
#ATTENTION ALL USERS ATTENTION ALL USERS: COMPUTER GOING DOWN FOR REGULAR DAY OF MAINTENANCE AND REST IN FIVE MINUTES. PLEASE SIGN OFF.
:Create new world.
#You have exceeded your allotted file space. You must destroy old files before new ones can be created.
:Destroy earth.
#Destroy earth. Please confirm.
:Destroy earth confirmed.
#COMPUTER DOWN. COMPUTER DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME ON SUNDAY MARCH 8 AT 6:00 A.M. YOU MUST SIGN OFF NOW!
#And God signed off at 11:59 p.m., Friday, March 6.
#And God saw that he had zero funds remaining.
Also there was this site http://www.workjoke.com/projoke.htm where there are all jokes related to professions! cooool..
A couple of days back NHK crew were at our house to shoot for a documentary. i couldn't attend them since i was kinda busy. they'd given a pen as a gift but i however misplaced it somewhere. i even took a snap of it before it got lost..
i like collecting pens actually. i wonder how many people are into pen collection hobbies these days. it seems like all computers to me. may be we should start collecting keyboard and mice....
last night i had some trouble sleeping..and what more i had a nasty dream...
in dream the whole world was in war! ya everyone were fighting..i mean everyone. then out of sudden there were some loud noises from the sky. everybody looked up; and there was this gigantic rock like object falling down from the sky. there were many beings shouting from that rock. everybody stopped the war and just looked and looked..it was too late. that rock came straight ahead towards the earth and bang!! i was awake the next moment! that almost felt like real...
this morning in the papers there was an article saying that a meteor was expected to hit the earth in 2400AD or sometime like that..boy did i had a premonition or what! also it said that NASA and scientists weren't doing enough for such problems to humanity. well they should if its true! whatever good or bad life we have.. at least we deserve to live!
also i checked the national academy here for science and development, RONAST (i wonder about the jobs that they are seriously doing..coz i hear so little about them in news), and i hope that it also does something to check such threaten to mankind. actually i was watching this video yesterday of NASA on strange UFO objects(may be that had something to do with my dream), and i still am not sure whether to believe in them or not.
http://www.ronast.org.np/
The online business in nepal seems to be speeding up with old players like muncha.com and thamel.com being joined by new online shopping sites like the unicornfelt.com, creationnepal.com, ghardailo.com and nepalscraft.com. this indeed is a good news for people around the globe. and then again there are other sites like the ebay.com and amazon.com and shopping.yahoo.com that were there forever...
http://www.muncha.com
that's one side of the story. an online shopping nepal in pace with the rest of the world; then there is an in-line shopping nepal, the ones that are still having to stand in long queue for getting thier basic needs like water, food and cooking gases..such a pity that u toss a coin and see heads and tails of two different animals, one shopping online and another shopping in line...
LET THERE BE EQUALITY!
While each of the Nepalese students are busy trying to go abroad for studies, there are also the ones coming here. the School for international Training is also dedicated in providing studies and programs worldwide, including nepal. the site list the process and programs in various countries, and tries to produce globally aware professionals. quite a motto that is. check them out!
http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/asia/nepal.html
New Year 1126 to all!! There's so much to explore on nepal..and the good thing is that you're never done exploring. just been back from Swayambhu. its a magical scene to see the whole Kathmandu city glowing with all the Tihar lights at the night time. i just wished there were more people (there were less than 100 people i think while we were there) to see the 'matrix' like scene of the valley from the heights of Swayambhu. its...Heaven.
Now what's nepal if it were not to be the scenes, beauty & adventure. i saw this site that has some small but spectacular high quality photo collection and maps of nepal and information on trekking and other popular sites. its more like a guidebook. also can be slow over slow connection. but its worth a watch. the images are not only of popular sites in nepal but also from space satellites too! some of which are from www.eorc.jaxa.jp (which is a japanese earth research center)also there are loads of info if you're into travelling or trekking any of these places. here's the site
http://www.raonline.ch/rao_promonp00.html
Now if u really are into motorbike stuffs then there's this site called www.ridehigh.com by Himalayan Roadrunners Pvt. Ltd which arranges one of its kind motorcycle tours and expiditions to the highest places of nepal as well as bhutan, thailand and others. and its all in thier shedule section.(unfortunately the tours inside nepal seems to be postponed due to the unfavourable conditions here...which hopefully eases soon
let the Tihar celebrations continue..!
Nepal is said to be country where we have 365 festivals for 365 days of year. having said that the 2nd most important festival Tihar is round the corner(starts 30th Oct). No doubt nepal is the richest in culture & arts...
The Los Angelos Country Museum of Arts (lacma) have a fascinating showcase in their site about arts. their online collection contains a huge database of rare and classic arts from round the globe, including of course Nepal! i saw some rare manuscripts there. i was especially fascinated by the coin collection, may be coz i'm a bit of a coin collector myself :-)
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/
However for the Nepalese artists there's this great site of a great organization called spinybabler which has been in the field of arts in nepal for several years now. the least u can do for this voluntary organization is go through the site and see what else u could do. its pleasing to know that people like these are working to preserve the arts and culture of the country. their voluntary acts are also focused for the children and minority and is renowned worldwide.
http://www.spinybabbler.org/
I had a horrible weekend due to the computer problems. for a sec i thought about switching from windows to a linux system. but it seems to have sorted out now. i think it was some sort or spyware
But before that we had quite fun at the Last Resort for the party & bungy. the bungy stuff is for the people with no fear, no asthma, over 8 years of age...gee its fun thought once you're over with jumping part. the only complain i had was the tiring long journey back to the hotel. i hope they sort it out. but when u consider that its the second highest bungy in the world, its all worth it. and then there was an all night long party to end it all.check them out at their site!!
http://www.tlrnepal.com
The nepalese abroad have formed a group named 'non-resident Nepali association' which not only is working to bring together the Nepalese all over the world together, but also providing NRN and foreign investments in Nepal. and of course the remittance is the greater source of country economy. recently there was the Second Global NRN Conference and i think (not sure) that subha rana was elected to come here to promote development in nepal. well good luck to all of them. nepal need you all! check the site and other Nepalese associations round the globe..
http://www.nrn.org.np
There are quite a few Nepalese spread out these days over all parts of the world. and its really sad that they can't return here in festival season like this (dashain n tihar). so there are a few groups working together to have some fun together as a one big family abroad. one such site i came across was from Colorado(US) which is organizing some good celebration on 22nd October.
the site is
http://www.rmfn.org/
Seasons greetings to everybody out there abroad from us here!!
The news headlines today is the south-east Asia earthquake. according to CNN and BBC the death toll have risen to 20000 due to the 7.6 Richter scale earthquake, mostly in Pakistan & India. that's the strength of the nature...within couple of minutes it could destroy mankind. (who needs war anyway?)
also nepal has known to be a major earthquake risk country.
so what about the earthquake preparations? ii found that the The National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET) website had quite a handful of resources on earthquake. the earthquake preparation tips (before, during & after an earthquake) is helpful. site is offered in Nepali as well as English. also the other links contain more interesting sites. but seriously this site needs to be updated more frequently.
http://www.nset.org.np
nepal is a beautiful country. its sad that not many people around the world know that nepal is so beautiful. what's sadder is that not many people within the country know how beautiful the other parts of the country are. a new site has been recently set up by the tourism board of nepal's branch TRPAP (Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation Programme), which in their own word, aims at reaching out some of Nepal's poorest rural areas by promoting tourism. its a beautiful site with lots of gallery photos and information of various locations of Nepal, including the Dolpa, Langtang regions, Kanchanjunga, Solukhumbu, Chitwan and Lumbini (yes, the birth place of Buddha). a must visit site...
http://www.welcomenepal.com/trpap/
Continuing on promotion of nepal, i came across this site on volunteering in nepal. basically this one's for the foreigners who want to help nepal by travelling and staying in Nepal.
http://www.volunteersnepal.com/
Hurray! the greatest festival of the nepalese, dashain is right here in our doorsteps. i wonder if there's some other festival in the world running for 15 whole days. wow! it starts with "Ghatasthapana" today to "Tika" on 10th day and "Kojagrat" on the 15th day. the 'nawami' and 'dashami' are on the same day this year, so people are gonna miss 1 day holiday! foods, drinks, new dresses, kites, gambling, family gatherings, and most of all joy and peace is what i am expecting for the next 14 days...
now that the dasain is here and everybody are busy greeting each other it might be time to pick up a greeting card to send to the dear ones. one good e-card site with dashain greetings that i can think of are www.ecards.com.np and www.egreetings.com.np, both of which lack good flash animated cards (but then again something is better than nothing...)
dial up users! it might just be the right time to switch your connection to a faster broadband or cable connection. with the ISP like Mercantile, World Link and Vianet providing cable connections at reduced rates, it might be the time to check the nearest outlet to find the details and move up with the pace of rest of the universe!
As for the real freaks it might even be worth to shoot two step ahead for the wireless connection...after all the world is now heading for the Wi-Fi and Wi-Max era.
If you've ever tried to search for a good fansite of Nepali artist, actors or such you'd probably end up getting zero results. its feels really good to know secrets about people you like that others don't know. when i search for 'alanis morissette' fansites (she sure rocks!) i get a loads of them, but when i search for some nepali singers i get nil. are there no serious Nepali fans out there or what?! anyway it felt good even to find a single fansite of our very popular pop singer 'Nabin K. Bhattarai', even with an ordinary layout
http://nabinkbhattaraionnet.tripod.com/aboutnabin.htm.
also the official site of nabin is a worth checkout!
http://www.nabinkbhattarai.com/
juss bean bizy wid mai stoff latelee... (i love this kinda language!)
care for an all Nepali site? newsofnepal.com is the first site i can think of. it features all the latest updated news from Nepal maintained by Kamana Prakashan Samuha which also runs daily newspapers (nepal samacharpatra and mahanagar) & few other monthly magazines. the site requires Nepali font (which can be downloaded from the site itself) . the site has a very average layout (might be better in days to come)
ok, let's give a big round of applause for this next person by the name of pushkar shah, who's on a mission of world tour with a message of peace & hope for the country & the world since 1998. ironically, the country & the world has seen the worst days in history against peace. but let's keep the hope alive... the site lists his autobiography on visits to the various countries in the past few years. there's even this 'where's pushkar' section to follow him! Hats off to this guy.
bai da wey eye waz juss thinkin hau eat wood bee eaf aal da pipul wud bee goin on a wold tur juss laik dat! wow...
