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World Poverty Map - Creating a World Without Poverty - Esquire

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:41 +0545

World Poverty Map - Creating a World Without Poverty - Esquire:

How good politics can be instrumental for good economy.

Omegle

Sun, 10 May 2009 23:29:00 +0545

Omegle

Code Obfuscation

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:21:06 +0545

Code Obfuscation:

By Binit Thapa

“Real Programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.”

Obfuscation: confusion resulting from failure to understand, mystification….

Lenny

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:04:30 +0545

Lenny:

Not much to write today but I have moved back to Debian, having installed its latest stable release (5.0) named “Lenny.” I used the CD image for installation instead of DVD and the installed…

"There are only 7 billion people on the planet, and only about a billion on the Internet. Every fact..."

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:32:34 +0545

“There are only 7 billion people on the planet, and only about a billion on the Internet. Every fact about a person (are they male or female? Where they live? Do they listen to Brian Eno?) slices that number down by a significant fraction. If you have enough facts about a person, (33 bits of independent facts, it turns out, because log 2 7,000,000,000 = 32.7) you can determine who they are.”

- Websites that collect and republish seemingly innocuous facts about their users are often vulnerable to data mining.

The seduction of “Free Tibet”

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:50:29 +0545

The seduction of “Free Tibet”:

Just ahead of the Beijing Olympics, a group of white men were discussing Free Tibet in a Thamel pub. Sitting next to me, they seemed to make some interesting points about why Tibet should be free…

Linux Journal Tech Tip Video Contest

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:45:46 +0545

Linux Journal Tech Tip Video Contest:

Linux Journal is a leading magazine on GNU/Linux and free/open source softwares. The yearly Readers’ Choice Awards announced by the magazine are considered to be an authoritative list among Free…

Nepal’s untapped wealth

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:04:09 +0545

Nepal’s untapped wealth:

Nepal’s poor economy has never had the opportunity of a sensible political leadership. Especially since the civil war in the 1990s, it is in total disarray. The peace-process is only existent in…

The load shedding conspiracy

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:59:58 +0545

The load shedding conspiracy:

For the whole of a country to remain without power for more than 2/3rd of a day- every day; a catastrophe of sorts should have had occurred. Only if the country in question is not Nepal. In…

Diversity in Darkness

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:45:30 +0545

Diversity in Darkness:

Darkness
One reason why I haven’t been able to blog frequently is the latest improvements in the load-shedding schedule (of which I have now lost track). The improvement took the duration of…

"That certainly didn’t take long to have the rhetoric fail and the reality take charge."

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:57:21 +0545

“That certainly didn’t take long to have the rhetoric fail and the reality take charge.”

- Slashdot | MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events

Girls Growing Up Too Fast

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:16:00 +0545

Girls Growing Up Too Fast

Stones thrown at Prime Minister Prachanda's convoy

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:08:48 +0545

Stones thrown at Prime Minister Prachanda's convoy:

What you sow is what you reap

Germany's Solar Experiment

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:15:10 +0545

Germany's Solar Experiment:

A perfect example from Germany. In the wake of Nepal’s dreadful Power Problems (16 hours of power cut coming in about a month’s time: http://bibekpaudel.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/more-darkness/) , I wish our leaders learned something while they travel abroad. Of course, they never will !