Link Love: I love you

During my rambling on these days, I have come across a lot of request for link x change.
Well, I would love to exchange links if you have

• a blog which is acceptable for everyone
  

Here we go:

1. Aakar: Blog
2. Active Nepali Blogs
3. Ametya: Blog
4. Amit: Blog
5. Basant:ScienceNSociety
6. BasantaG: Da Road
7. Deepa:Chitchat
8. Dacharya
   
9. Infinity: tachyon
10. MangalMan
11. Nabin: Mirror Blog
12. Palai Palo
13. Ujeli: guff
14. the Infinity
15. melody
16. dotsky
17. wecindy
18. sam
19. momstart
20. kystorms
21. RIZE
22. manojlds
23. kikamz
24. ITblood
25. BB4Blog
    
26. You!
    

Please get yourself in: simply link me back by using any word you like and comment below.
I promise regular visits and link love!
(I am also planning to blog about a site every once in a while from this list: so get in!)

Blogged:
PalaiPalo: Dated Aug7,2008
Hamrocircle: Dated Aug 28, 2008


Thanks!

idea: ClustrMap should improve!

ClustrMaps Team Saw ur comment elsewhere that you wanted something 'not flash, like clustrmaps but better'... can you email us what you want and we'll do it!

Details

2008-07-19 5:24 PM

Wow!


I had commented on probloggger about my dis-satisfaction of having flash-enabled map of where the visitors come from. Pics are far better.
At that time, I was simply impressed by the feedjit.
(Let me drag little, ha ha: may be feedjit people will read it too!)
But, however, feedjit also has some limitations (I am not going to discuss that in here).
In the case of clustrmap, yes, it is free and nice. Thumbs up, but hey... what is the meaning of having huge dot at the center of the map which overlaps with others.
Features you can add:

• See what the visitors visited/accessed.
• Instead of having huge dots, you can have heat map or color coded dots.
• zoom-able map

I think you guys are already busy with maintaining such good map, but those additional features will make it best one!

GOOD LUCK!

Trying to work on google map API

This is a long weekend.
So, dai was thinking about some creative re-creation.

Can we place all the friends on the google map?

For example, I was able to do this much:
http://nabinkm.googlepages.com/locate.htm
and
http://nabinkm.googlepages.com/map_1.htm

But I would like to be able to add more people in there...

There should be some easy way to do this...

Let me work on it for now. I will be updating per development.

References:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/introduction.html
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/index.html
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/index.html
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html

BTW: signing up for API with google account is free and easy

How to change the mouse size in UBUNTU 8.04- the Hardy Heron

I was playing and accidently, made the mouse pointer very huge.
I thought, I can revert it easily.
Having a huge mouse pointer was nice. BUT, After a while, it became pain in the neck.

I wanted to get rid of the big mouse.

Naturally, I went into the natural place:
System>Preference>mouse.
There was no choice for changing the mouse size. And, by that time I had forgotten on where I did the changes.
Finally, I could figure it out.
The way is:
System>Preference>Appearance>Customize under the Theme tab> and then pointer tab and finally the default choice or other choice will be available.

Whew!

Edit:

 

Shy Poll: 53 votes over the month

Few months back, I had run a Poll regarding my query in mind whether people would poll, rather than whether to know how people get in. To learn it, I can get the info from sitemeter or google-analytics. The query was whether people who come for Entrecard Credits do look around or not...

Welcome, How did you land here?
EC Rocks! 35 votes (67%)
Sitehoppin 2 votes (3%)
Regular... 4 (7%)
Random + other 10 (11%)
search engine 1 (1%)

Total vote: 52 (by may 19th)

FOOT NOTE:
(If you have not got google analytics account, yet. Get it now!
It is free and very very very useful:
http://www.google.com/analytics/)

HAMRO CIRCLE: Active Nepali Blogs

http://hamrocircle.blogspot.com/
The concept behind the site is the fact that there are some directories in the internet, but they lack updates. They do not care whether the blog has not been updated for centuries or not. That can not be very informative listing. Specially because there are a lot of people wasting time to seek out updated blogs who end up visiting some semi-dead blogs.

HAMRO CIRCLE is an attempt to have short list of our favourite Nepali blogs.
The site simply features blog-roll concept in Blogspot. It is mere a collection of Active Nepali Bloggers. I must warn, however, that some blogs which are famous enough have not been listed there because they are not blog, but rather are working as news agency. (I can not remain without praising their efforts. but, they are not blogs anymore.)

So, if you are Nepali blogger, please bookmark the site: HAMRO CIRCLE.

How to change the password in ubuntu

How to change the password in ubuntu?

Changing the password in UBUNTU was like a challenge for me. because I had been doing it the manually. I used to go to
SYSTEM > ADMINISTRATION>USERS AND GROUPS
and then change the password for the user.
But when I reboot, the changes would not work!

Today, I was able to do it by going to terminal. This makes me feel little more comfy because, now I do have same password for WINDOWS and UBUNTU as well.
:)

1. to change the root password
sudo passwd
enter password

2. to change the user password
su
passwd user

done!

Image ads in Google adsense: Nice!

With the retirement of referrals in google adsense, I am amused with the fact that they have introduced the image ads in the google adsense for bloggers.
This is kinda nice, because the click thru rate of image are assumed to be much higher than the text ones. This way can benifit both the advertisers and the publishers. The best part being the fact that the image ads are much more attractive. This makes people more distracted and hence they tend to click on it.

However, some advertisements can include partial nudity which should be taken care. For example, if I am opening a page in public place or in some formal environment, I can not accept it.

I hope google people are smart enough.

University gets new life each semester

I was in the University this afternoon. Today marks the last day of our summer and Tomorrow will mark the first day of the Fall semester for Undergraduates. For Graduates, however, the class will begin after a week; because of the Comps.
Last week, I was touched by the visit of parents of a student. The parents were excited to visit the department and to see the room in which their son was going to get his class. The mom asked him,"Is the class big?" The feelings and excitements of their family made the second floor to glow more than ever.
I remembered my parents and their hopes and expectations when I first went into school.
University is like a crop field which gets a new life every semester.

Adsense: Referral Retiring in the Last week of Aug.

Yea, it is planning to retire the adsense for referral by the end of this month.
With this change in Referral, Google may have some other plan.
The clear message:

Note: Referrals is being retired during the last week of August 2008, so we recommend that you do not implement referral ad code on your site at this time. For more information about the retirement of the Referrals program, visit our Help Center.

Follow the link above, they have useful discussions there.

Dear Friend: Did I confuse you a lot?

I was in USA, for you.
I was supposedly having a vast amount of internet access and source of local knowledge.
You asked me a lot of questions. Yea, I can not be that busy that I can not get small amount of time to compose a reply to you! Actually, you got some of my Email replies. Yea, you got excited at some point to get replies. But, may be your expectations were little higher. may be I have not yet achieved the glory of writing things clearly. I swear: I tried my best. May be that was not sufficient. Moreover, I could not get the definite answer you wanted to hear; but enumerated a lot of ways. A lot. Just enough to make the situation more messy looking and complicated.
I am sorry.
Now you are in USA. Welcome to USA. And hope that you will be pressing your field more efficiently. I hope our next one will get clearer answers.
I am glad that you are here.

Idea: CDTA bus should be running 10 mins apart

This is a small idea on how SUNY ALBANY students have faced the bus schedule in terms of convenience and availability.






















cdta:
http://www.cdta.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_District_Transportation_Authority

Volunteer Opportunities: Komen Race for the Cure

Last year I had volunteered in Komen NENY Race for the Cure®. I am looking forward for another opportunity for this year.
The aim of the program is for creating awareness about the breast cancer.
You can get a lot of info at: http://www.komen.org/
There are so many ways that you can help. Whether you volunteer a few hours each week, or pitch in on race day, every bit helps and is greatly appreciated...not to mention, the feeling of being involved in the race is undeniably amazing!

If you want to volunteer, please visit:
http://cms.komen.org/komen/NewsEvents/FindAnEvent/index.htm?ssSourceNodeId=505&ssSourceSiteId=Komen
and get registered.
It is fun and different kind of recreational work. You will enjoy it!

Microsoft: Did you install this as update to my Firefox3?

I did not install this add on....

Microsoft .NET framework assistant 1.0

I remember recent 10 automatic updates being done by the system.


Microsoft: Did you install this as update to my Firefox3?

Add Gadgets in Blogger: Blogspot

I was playing with my blog this afternoon and realized that add new element has been worked out by the blogger team.
Exploring the feature, I could realize that finally they are doing something.

Last month's draft option was also a nice feature added recently under drafts mode. Using the huge feedback from users, they had enabled simple option: write it now and schedule it for later date. That is nice. I hope the same kind of feature will come up in gmail too. So that we can compose message and set the time of delivery for later date.

Palai Palo: Another Place for fun

Amit, Basant and I decided that there should be some place for us to put the educative you-tube videos. And , moreover discuss about these. Just to have fun.
Palai Palo is our joint attempt.

Actually I was inspired by the site called "... guys named rob".
So far, we have not been able to do excellent job like they do; but it is OK.
We are having fun. Our attempt is to have fun and to see how far this goes. Since it is updated every week, one of us will be posting video. And this goes in cycle. So far My turn is after 2 weeks. I had done 3 while Basant was in Nepal and Amit did 3 while I was in Brazil or preparing my work for the conference.

Anyways, If you are from Nepal; a student of Science and have confidence I would like you to start your own such stuff. It is fun, and may be invite us for discussion.
:0

Which Language Do you think and dream in?

Which Language Do you think and dream in?

What influences the dream and thinking is deep rooted in the mind. Somewhere, where no microscope can see!
(??? I know it makes no sense, but wanted to write it.)
Remember people having dreams of childhood?

An incident of taking oath in hindi by the vice president of Nepal was the cause of fierce debate and violence in some part of Nepal. When it comes to language, it is really hard issue to take stand on. Specially when he was supposed to take care of 25million+ people of New Nepal.

Site Hoppin is formally dead! Entrebar rocks!

One of the sensational movement was Sitehoppin. In which one was able to surf different sites indexed and tagged by the owner and users.
In the beginning, I liked it a lot. I could just lazily stare at my LCD, while the browser hops; and if anything interesting catches me, open in new window with Shift+click.
I do have a nice account at sitehoppin:
http://sitehoppin.com/User:Nabinkm
And , as per indication, I received 3K visits (ooo).
I can announce the death of sitehoppin as Entrecard team have revealed the Entrecard Toolbar for Firefox:
http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=493

How many are sitehoppin, yet?

Hello World!

I have been subscribed into the daily dose of the "picture of the day" series of the wikipedia. The pictures are (usually) stunningly beautiful.
Today, I received this picture.
"A young paper wasp female (Polistes gallicus)".
While looking into the picture, I was thinking about the impact factor of the picture. Looking into the new living being coming into my world is really wonderful! She has no idea about what kind of world she is entering into. Soon, she will need to learn the tools of survival as the world goes for survival of the fittest.
If you would like to subscribe to the wikipedia picture of the day, go to:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and enjoy the daily dose by Email.