Goodbye Netscape Navigator

Goodbye Netscape Navigator!

This is a farewell to the Netscape Navigator as AOL will discontinue it's update and support beginning the first March 2008.

The news of falling of Netscape is all over the place.
It depicts another era in the history of www.
It had been surviving as a lost warrior since (around) 1995 when it started loosing the grip over www to its rival internet explorer. However, there had been some unsuccessful attempts to revive it into the race.
I believe many people do not mind its ultimate demise because we now have got its ultimate progeny: Mozilla Firefox (and flock, as suggested in their announcement// I am not familiar with flock).
People are eagerly waiting for the ultimate release of Firefox3(FF3).
Read More:
http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/
http://blog.netscape.com/2008/02/20/netscape-9-users-time-to-flock-or-firefox/
http://browser.netscape.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape

In Case of Emergency (ICE)

Last year, one of my friend suddenly felt dizziness. The condition got worse that we all prepared to get him into emergency. While we were doing so, I wanted to call his wife. I looked by her name into his cell, I could not get her number. He must have put under some kinda nick name.
I could not find it.
Imagine a situation when you needed help from stranger in such condition, s/he had to dial your relative or contact person. Surely, they do not have idea on what to do with your cell contacts. You can have hundreds of 'em.
The solution is to have one contact number added as ICE (in case of emergency).
Nobody knows when you may need help!

I think the cell software should be designed in such a way that user has to (optional) enter the ICE number when used for the first time. Having ICE on mobile can be helpful.
Helpful, especially when someone wants to get help for you.

More:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/phones/2005-08-15-ice-cell-phone_x.htm
This article suggests the idea of having same acronym in different companies, bringing uniformity in it's use.

Mar22, 2064 AD

Mar22, 2064 AD

In 2025 we got excited by the innovation achieved by human kinds. We were able to develop nano-robots: nanobots. These tiny robots could be inserted into body and they could travel into our vascular system to reach the neurons. Initially it was designed to heal some neurological diseases, but later it was found that they could also be used to make the neural connections in the brain. Thus medical subjects could plan to get new connections and could heal some broken neural connections. This led to exciting development in the field of neuro-science by 2031. By 2033, another milestone was achieved : the instructions could be sent to the nanobots by broadcasting the wireless signal and they used same mechanism of hemoglobin for their energy supply. They could absorb the oxygens from blood and use it as fuel (The details are still kept under top secret).

Suddenly something bad happened, they started to extract the Irons from the hemoglobin and used it to reproduce similar structures. Robot Reproduction!. They needed more oxygens and irons. By 2050, the entire planet was under their control. There were nanobots present in every brain. And they controlled every brain on the planet. Age of Slavery was back. There was no need to make new robots. Humans were robots, by definition....


Inspired by:
iRobot
i am Legend
"robot": A keyword search in answers.com
and
Machines 'to match man by 2029' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7248875.stm)

(to be continued ...)

Enjoy being nepali............

Enjoy being nepali............

( I could not resist posting this one, as it will keep being forwarded to me from my friends for several weeks now on.)

You Know You Are a Nepali When.....*

You think Mustang is the name of a place.

You look up when you hear an airplane.

You point with your lips or with your middle finger.

Whenever you meet someone you ask, 'Have you had your food?' ( bhat khayao?)

You meet someone in a movie hall and ask, ' Have you come to watch a movie?' (cinema herna ayeko?)

You call all action movies ' action pacck'

You meet an elder and he/she asks you, 'When did you come back?'

You know the three Ds of partying. i.e- dance, drink and dangdung (fist/khukuri fight).

You think all festivals mean relatives playing cards and getting drunk.

You cannot drink without chicken chilly and momos.

You think chicken chilly and momo are nepali food.

You are crossing a one way street and you have to check both sides. ( daya ani baya )

You get annoyed when people think you are from Naples.

Your relatives give you money whenever you visit them. ( even when you are 40)

When you see a pair of slippers upside down (ulta chappal) you have to turn it around.

You don't cut your nails at night. (alas the devil might take You and your family)

You feel you havent eaten if you havent had Bhath (rice).

You laugh at everything on Nepali TV but you still watch it.

You dont know that the buff you have been eating is actually short for buffalo.

You have been dragged to a mandir on saraswati puja so that you will get good grades.

You are not allowed to hum or sing while eating.

Your grandmum doesnt let you whislle at night.

You cant date someone if you are not in love.

You have a problem following rules and standing in line.

You call anyone rajesh hamal(famous Nepali Actor) if he has a long back-hair.

You wait for someone going 'tinaa-falaam-boraa-botttle' when you have loads of beer cans and bottles,

You watch Korean movie and try to act like one,

You miss those mountains you used to see the moment you opened your eyes in the morning..

You go out for lunch/ dinner/ whatever in a group and look at the menu for

half an hour and order the following:

1. momo

2. chowmein

3. fried rice

4. chicken chilli

You think of titaura and your saliva glands go wild!!

You think Toyota Corrolla is the no.1 car in the world!

You can sing this song... 'super top, ma hun super top... ma luga lai seto paarchu...'

You miss mango tart, wai wai, rara and hatichap chappal..

You are good at drunk driving, especially on motorcycles...

-your conversation with any Nepali you just met always ends up being an interview to unearth the degree of association with this person. (eh...Ghar ka?? Lazimpat? Tyeso bhaye timile xyz lai chinchhau??)

- 90% of the time you end up knowing someone who knows someone who knows the person.

- The remaining 10% of the time the person is your relative.

- You owned a dog, or knew of a dog named Tiger.

- you think cats are evil.

- you feel obligated to pay for everyone else when eating out with your friends.

- you get a kick out revealing to some of your American friends that Kathmandu is actually a real place and not just a word invented to mean in the middle of nowhere (as in 'from Katmandu to Timbuktu')

- you didn't know Timbuktu was a real place in Mali, Africa.

- your American friends ask you if you have climbed mount Everest.

- you probably haven't even seen mount Everest.

- your favorite Hollywood actress used to be Phoebe Cates

- you pronounce Phoebe Cates as 'fobee cyats'

- You go crazy if you can't blow on your fingers after you touch your neck.Or who ever's 4. fingers that touches your neck. (Natra Gaand aunchha kya)

- You drive your friends crazy by touching their neck and running away before they can blow.

- You think you're better than Indians.

- you dislike India but can't live without their food and their movies.

- you pretend you can't speak Hindi.

- you think you don't have an indian accent.

- You are afraid to step on any paper, or pen (You don't want to piss off Saraswati and flunk an exam).

- you love the pungent, fermented smell of pickled bamboo shoots (tama) and dried and aged vegetable leaves (gundruk) + you are drooling at the thought right now.

- 'Babu' or 'Naani' is the default nickname for all male & female kids in the family since the last 10 generations

How to Socialize.

Thanks to Ametya for asking me on my blog "Time! +- > http://ajabgajab.blogspot.com".
How to link to delicious. The code helps to link to delicious, digg, technorati, and others...

Below is the code that I have been using.
just change the url and enjoy!


Code:
{p class="socialicons">
{a linkindex="5" set="yes" target="_blank" href="http://digg.com/submit?

phase=2&url=http://ajabgajab.blogspot.com/" title="Digg it!">{img src="http://albany.edu/~nm834896/digg.gif"/>{/a>
{a linkindex="6" set="yes" target="_blank" href="http://technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?

url=http://ajabgajab.blogspot.com/&title=Time!" title="Add to technorati!">{img src="http://albany.edu/~nm834896/technorati.gif"/>{/a>
{a linkindex="7" set="yes" target="_blank" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://ajabgajab.blogspot.com/" title="Del.icio.us">
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{a linkindex="" set="yes" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.ajabgajab.blogspot.com&title=Time!" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url='+sburl1098+'&title='+sbtitle1098);return false;" title="StumbleUpon!">{img alt="StumbleUpon!" style="border: 1px solid Gray; margin: 1px; padding: 1px;" src="http://www.digitalgoldmoney.com/mambots/content/socialbookmarkerbot_images/stumbleupon.png" title="StumbleUpon!"/>{/a>

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{/p>
{a href="
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" target="_blank">{img border="0" alt="Add to Google" width="104" src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif" height="17"/>{/a>
{br/>
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Darwin day: Feb 12th.

Darwin Day is the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809.

He is honored for his dedication and innovative skills to trace the theory of Natural selection as the mechanism of organic evolution. He not only proposed it, he presented it with supporting evidence. The most established and highly debated logical explanation for the diversity of life.
I feel deep respect for his power of observation.

On the Origin of Species was published on November 24, 1859.

When I had chance to visit the VC of (then) RONAST, I could see two pictures of scientist on his office wall. I had asked why (only) these two people?
At that time VC was Prof. Daya Nanda Bajracharya, and he was happy that I asked that. One of them was Charles Darwin and the other was Albert Einstein.

2009 will mark an important year for Darwin Day celebrations. The year will be the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and will also mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

There are rivals to this theory too: Let me put one pic:

speed up firefox

This is the process of speed up you're Mozilla Firefox browser 10x faster:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for thefollowing entries:

2. Modify the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. (this means it will
make it will make 30 requests at once).

3. Finally right click anywhere and select New --> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.intialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". ( this value is the amount of
time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

For ADSL:

1. Type about:config into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following
entries:

2. Set:
network.http.max-connections:64
network.http.max-connections-per-server:21
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server:8
network.http.pipelining: true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

3. Finally right click anywhere and select New --> Interger.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of the
time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Refreshing music for the morning.

Got up early in the morning. Still affected by the jet lag. I could not keep my-self awake yesterday. Did not even prepared food to eat. Jumped directly into my bed. I tried sleeping in the morning. But, kept waking up. At 1 AM, 2 AM, 3 AM, 4 AM and finally gave up after that. Tired up with sleeping.
I wanted a nice music to get outta the upset mood.
This song by Aani Chhoying Dolma: Muskan is very lovely.

The number has been changed/ Deleted!

(This one was written when I was in Nepal. The situation was that I was there and was calling my friends. They would not recognize me because they had deleted my number from their cell. The posting was delayed due to the problem in opening the blogger account. Hope , the subject has not lost its value over one month.)

The number has been changed/Deleted: I do exist!

"It was my stupidity to seek changes in mere 16 months. Now I know, I can not expect it for some more time. The situation is still there. On each and every subject, they are there as if they has been doomed to be like that or they do hate change.
My expectation of change was natural as we have a huge gradient of social and economic differences with the rest of the world.
But the agents of changes are incapable of making any progress.

Ya, for sure, the most striking thing that occurred to me was the fact that I could not contact many friends on the old numbers.even the mobile numbers were changed. Moreover, When I called, some of them already had deleted my number.
They would go: "Who is this?"
I would say, "Guess!"
No guess, because I have been deleted!
Well, thats kinda interesting. A proof of limitation of storage capacity. Social problem. It is the mentality. I have been out for a while, but not been diffused to another world.
And my dear friend, you deleted me?
No Email for long time was OK. But to delete me from cell is strange. Shall I call you?"

Jet Lag: Confused Body ticks

Jet Lag: Confused Body ticks

It is 1 AM , now, I am awake and active after a nice sleep in the yesterday evening.

My biological clock is completely tricked. It is the Jet Lag effect. I feel irresistibly sleepy in the late afternoon. And similarly irresistibly awake in the early morning. It will last for few more days to come. Until the ticks are synchronized to local time (EST GMT-5:00/ Universal Time -5). It had happed in Nepal too (GMT+5:15). I kept waking in opposite sense. The situation is worse because I have been to the two farthest points of the earth. Nearly the opposite sides of the diameter of the Earth.

I was waken up by the call from my friend. I talked to him as if it was tomorrow morning. I looked into the mobile clock to see 9 PM or so and was completely astonished to realize that I was not sleeping for the morning. I still had to eat my dinner. I later realized that yesterday I had talked to one of my friend in complete dream. I have no idea on what did I talk.

I think, I need to take rest.

http://www.answers.com/Jet+Lag?cat=health&gwp=13

Kathmandu Durbar Square: Odd Angles

I was like a tourist in the Kathmandu Durbar Square. With My camera.
I have been always fascinated by these places. I used to go and stay there and spent hours watching the beauty of the place, whenever I felt that I was under pressure. I wish I could take more pictures and I wish the day could have been a better one in terms of clearer sky and nice light.
What made me upset, like always, was the fact that the place could have been more cleaner. The small kids begging, the standing sellers chasing the tourists and the urination in some of the places. I was really angry to find that they had failed to keep it clean. I think there should be a standby team to keep it clean because tourists have paid the money to see it and that is one of the source of income. They did not pay to see the human dump. We should think on What kind of image we want to impart to them.
Pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/n.arxiv/KtmDURBARsquare1Jan2008

Back to USA

Only three posts in the month of Jan? How is that possible? My traffic dropped by 50% because of my irregularity, on whatever reason.
I tried to compose something to my blog from Hetauda, Makwanpur. Kathmandu was already bad. The blogger account would not open. So, I procrastinated. The power to procrastinate is what I have been learning in recent years. The only thing I can not/ would not be able to procrastinate would be my death. But that is long time to come. I have survived the month in my country. Actually I feel that I have been there to take a new life. Survival is not a problem in Nepal. People can just die for any reason. Accidental deaths are unlucky, if that is not caused by "politically influenced terrorism". It is just a matter of random sampling, and whether you are taken at random. At least 12 people were killed in Nepal in last one month. Peoples have forgotten to keep an account of "khudra" (-> not gross) deaths.

I am not frustrated with Nepal, I have a feeling that it will go through worse situation than present and then a day will come. A day will come when everything will be alright: better. I, still, am thinking whether my country needs a Hitler to hit the bed-rock.
What do my country Nepal need?
? A plan
? A visionary Leader
? Peace
? System
? Awareness
? Stability
? ??
Something has gone really bad, and no one is ready to think what is that.