Vote for Nepali Voice

If you were born after 1984 and eat and dream about space, have a history of participating and volunteering in such activities, go to OneYoungWorld

and submit a video. Who knows, you may also be selected!!!

Videos will be voted on by the YouTube community to determine the 100 best submissions. From these our panel of judges will then select the winning 20 videos. Whether you're from Australia or Zimbabwe, China or Kiribati; if chosen you will receive a fully-funded place at the One Young World summit in London on February 8-10 2010.

I met a Nepali thito participating in the competition and would like to request for your vote.

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your vote can enable Nepalese Voice to be heard in one young world conference. 

Please vote for Rijendra Thapa on the video "Youths of Voice of Developing Nation".

About the Video.

This is a two minute video uploaded for youtube contest to attend One young World Conference. He has nicely crafted his skills in showing his leadership qualities and his encouragement and inspiration to his generation to take positive action for change.

About the young world conference

It is a great forum to be held in London from February 8 -10 where 1500 delegates from 192 countries will discuss, debate and draft resolutions on six key issues covered in the plenary sessions-

The Environment and its Protection, 

Developing political leadership for a positive future, 

The role of Global business in shaping society through the economy, 

The media: its changing identity and power, 

Interfaith dialogue; world religion and spirituality, and 

the Global Health Agenda, 

in guidance of world leaders including Kofi Anan, Desmond tutu and Bob Geldof.

Steps to vote for Voice of Youths of Developing nation

1)Click in the link http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYoungWorld

2 )Go to vote gallery and click on Voice Of youth Of Developing nation.

3 ) When the video streams please vote:  green thumbs up.

About Rijendra Thapa

Rijendra Thapa is playing an active role in motivating younger generations of Nepal for better world. Rijendra, an Executive Founder member of Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) is carrying useful global projects of International Year of Astronomy, 2009. International Year of Science, 2009, space Generation Advisory Council, Student Exploration for Development of Space among Nepalese youths.

For more information on activities of  Rijendra and his organization NASO visit http://astronomy-nepal.blogspot.com/

- Rijendra Thapa

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Trying g-Chrome in Ubuntu with Flash enabled

What makes Chrome attractive is its speed and sleek look.
The Chrome for Windows has picked up its grab of users (and counting...), the reason is very obvious.
Today, I was playing with the Google Chrome on Ubuntu , and eventually got the "beta" version installed (Named Chromium). Even though it is named as "unstable-Chrome", It is pretty much stable for me, for now.
I added
--enable-plugins

to the command line and Bingo! it is youtube playable.
Oh well, the bing search just crashed! 

... the youtube too!
hitting F5 key reloaded it and is now OK. (Ha ha what a live reporting!)

Few crashes are OK ;)  that is what beta is supposed to do!

Now I am going to have some fun...
See the screenshots below:

 

 

Using Chrome for general purpose is still not recommended since it has privacy issues...
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

  

CDTA bus: few comments

Hello!

I am a SUNY student and use route#12 (and 10/11). It is the best and only public commuter service here, free for students with SUNY/ RPI / Saint Rose College card.

I am just curious about some stops being dis-connected on route 12. Do you have posted info about it on your website/blog?

1. The riders are basically local students who does not have car or low income families.



2. I saw that some stops are going to be disconnected. I hope Disconnecting stops at certain points have been decided after taking into consideration about the minus temperature of Winters when people have to walk 2/3 blocks, if disconnected. While the frequent stops are pain in the neck for the bus economy and drivers, it had been proved to be very useful for riders. Some ridicuously close by stops should be disconnected, but if people do not ride often from some stop never means that it has been useless.

3. My personal concern would be the stop after brevator(coming from downtown on route 12) before the turn into the state offices (near the bridge/Jermain st. ?). Removing that one can cause severe problem for me in the winter if I have to walk from brevator to patroon creek. There are no stops after brevator till one reaches the hotels.(Walking from there is also hard specially in winter.)

4. Route 11/12 on busy day:
I am aware that you had a survey conducted around dec time, did you also consider having more frequent services for rush hours. Please be advised that at certain times on western ave and washington ave, buses (bound to crossgates) get full before north main area and the students living in mid-town area has to see the bus going with "Full... take next one" sign on it. It becomes amzing scenario when more than 2/3 buses go like that and one ends up waiting for buses with little space after 40/60 min.

5. The time table should be strictly enforced. Sometimes the buses pass the stops 7/10 before the time. If bus reaches the stop before the time, it should better wait there. OR the schedule be modified.

I have no serious complains about the services. It is unique and best service here in Capital District. Almost all of the drivers are courteous and friendly.

These are my personal comments based upon my experiences.

Thank You!

Kubuntu DVD on sale at cheap price!!!

I felt this one was ridiculous!

Number One: The CD/DVD image is available for free at:
http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/




Number Two: even if one would like to buy open source operating system, one should try to support the system. Compare with MS OS:
amazon link for MS-OS

However, Someone else (not canonical) is selling the DVD on open market. Who does benefit from it?

Look at this pic from Amazon:

Did you see the Cheapest price?
This is plain Ridiculous!!!

Can think of getting Microsoft OS on amazon at 3 Dollars provided by secondary seller?

No! Not Now!!! Never... A Wordless Wednesday ... Just an experiment!

Microsoft Update: Right on time!

Amazing Video of James Mays in a U2 spy plane to space

James Mays of  Top Gear (U.K.) takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane.
Just amazing!!!