Did you know this?
Posted: June 19, 2009 Filed under: News/information and opinion, Randomization of randomness 5 Comments »We all are aware of current situation in Iran. I am in no position to confirm if voting was rigged or not, but public uprising there seems definitely genuine. The United States of America is paying a very close attention to the situation in Iran, and has been the headline for a week now in American cable news. Iran holds key to Middle East peace process, safety of American soldiers in neighboring Iraq, nuclear proliferation issues etc; so the interest on Iran is immense.
Couple of days ago I was watching PBS news on Iran, like on most of other cable news the talks were centered around how the use of social networking (Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, etc) has kept the momentum of protest in Iran, despite the governments clamp down on the conventional media and communication systems. Iran has applied Internet filter to stop these social networking sites, but the work around using the third party application makes harder for government to filter everything.
So the host of news asked an expert guest if a country can shut down the whole Internet system. The guest replied that it would involve a big political ramification to completely shut down the Internet system, ultimately giving an impression to the world that the election was rigged. So it’s unlikely that Iran would do that now, but it’s been done twice in past elsewhere. To quote that expert guest, one was in Myanmar and the other was in Nepal 
Loss of a category
Posted: June 8, 2009 Filed under: I love to drink, Ramblings on life, Randomization of randomness 5 Comments »There was a time when I absolutely loved drinking, no matter if it was a social drink or simply drinking to get drunk (big time). I never used to shy away from any possible opportunity to drink, and on few occasions established some notorious reputations too 
But times changed now, without even knowing about it, I ain’t the same drinker that I used to be. I had to sit around with some of my old pals to finally realize that. Now I am more of a social drinker, who if tries to push beyond that suffers a great deal the next day
I know it’s all good considering possible health as well as monetary benefits from my less enthusiastic drinking. However, my blog is in loss because of that. I have a blog category called “I love to drink” where I post all the creative ideas that I acquire during my drinking sagas. I doubt if I will have any more updates to that category. But I am optimistic that any substitutes (if any) to my drinking habits can also produce equally interesting and inspiring accounts for me to share 
Another picture
Posted: June 1, 2009 Filed under: Let the picture speak 2 Comments »आजकाल लेख्ने केही भएन कि तस्विर टांसेर टार्ने गरेको छु । आज पनि तेही नै गर्दै छु । तलको तस्विर मैले मेरो एउटा साथीको Point and Shoot क्यामरा बाट बल्टिमोर Inner Harbor मा खिचेको हुँ ।
अरु सहयात्री ब्लगहरुमा पसे पनि कमेन्ट त्यति गर्न पाइएको छैन । केही चित्त-नबुझ्दो हो त तुरुन्तै लेखी हाल्थें 
Baltimore Inner Harbor
