'Women in ICT' web portal launched

There is a gr8 news for people who have been involved in 'Women in ICT' project since its inception. The web portal, highlighting the concept, community members, their activities etc. have finally been launched.

Follow the link http://www.womeninict.org/ to chk out this initiation.

Cheers ;-)

Personalized google search page

Recently, when I visited a fren of mine, I saw that instead of the regular Google text when we visit www.google.com, he had his name instead. Was quite fascinated and asked him how I could do it. Its pretty easy too. And now I have my personal Google search page too. Chk out the link http://funnylogo.info/engines/Google/Red/Ssmriti.aspx to see the page.

If any of you guy's interested, here's how you can do it:

1. type the url www.007google.com. you'll be redirected to the page http://www.funnylogo.info/create.asp
2. type any text you want to display and choose the color and text style
3. then click on 'Create My Search Engine' and bingo, you have your own search engine. you can even make it your homepage (as i have done with mine).
   

Strange London

Before I came to London, I had imagined it quite like shown in the Bollywood movies, with tall buildings, great sceneries n all. But, when I finally came here, things were quite different. Not tht the reality was shocking. London is a beautiful city. But, except for a few commercial places, rest of London (and in fact outside London too) is like a town. Houses are all the same wherever you go. So, tht is pretty confusing coz you can't distinguish one place from another. Also, I came across a number of things that i found as strange (coz these things don't happen in Nepal):

1. Vehicles have number plates in 2 colors. Its white in the front of the vehicle and yellow behind. (I remember my fren n I discussing abt his uncle's car number plate color. He said tht it was white and I was sure tht it was yellow. As it turned out, we were both rite.)
2. Here, people don't blow horns of their vehicles. Since coming here, I have only heard horn blowing once, n tht was quite new to my ears. Otherwise, no one blows horns, even when the vehicles' rite behind you.
3. Pedestrians are kings here. While crossing roads, pedestrians get first priority.

As I come across more interesting things here, will keep on updating my blog. Till then, get to know London a little more thru this post.

Latest addition:

• In Chitwan, i remember people telling me not to go outside at nite coz you have rhinocerous running wild re. In London, its normal to see fox near your neighbourhood re. Saw one near where i live too. (Thought my fren was making a fool of me when he said tht it was a fox. Didnt believe him at first. hehe)

A must read

when i was sent this report to read, i couldn't help but laugh loud coz this is so very silly n hilarious. i just couldn't imagine anjesh dai to be thinking something like this. n tht too when he was in grade eight. hehe.

we all thought tht this was one report tht people would luv to read. so a fren posted this letter in his blog n i decided to do the same. n not surprising, we did receive lots of comments on it.

many thought this showed symptoms of his becoming a serial killer. but, knowing him, i can only say tht he is a killer, but one who kills with his questions, not weapons. (all the guys who know him would agree with me on this). we all have been the victims of his endless questions.



if you are done reading this report then here's another one to compliment it. i read this report in anjesh dai's blog itself. he had uploaded this to counter our comments n prove tht he too has a gentle side to him (n even then when he was in grade eight). ;-)

these two reports show 2 sides of a person whom i know personally, a gr8 person and fun to be with, and with his trademark questions.

Coming to London

so i finally made it to london. till the last moment when i was outside the tribhuvan airport in ktm, coming to london was just like an illusion. when i was outside the airport with my family and my fren prakriti, i suddenly realized tht i was coming to london, for 2 yrs, n it was not an illusion but a fact. many asked me later if i felt like crying or felt sad and so on. but the fact is, i didnt feel anything. for the first time, i was going out of nepal. 3 of us were travelling together. so tht was some relief. so, abt tht feeling thing, didnt feel like crying or anythig, maybe coz everything was new in terms of surroundings n all. but tht doesnt mean tht i didnt miss anyone. missed everyone in ktm very very very much, my parents, sis n bro, frens, my office, juniors, seniors n all. aba chaheko belama kasailai bhetna paudina. so feels lonely when i think of tht.

anyways, now m finally in london. 1st day ma yahan aauda ta felt odd not seeing people walking on the roads. ktm ko jasto bhid bhad nai chaina. everyone's either working, in college, home or travelling by bus, tube or car. bato ta sabai khali khali. peak time ma chahi bhid huncha stations haru ma. aba ta used to bhaye. another thing abt london is its weather. so unpredictable. n pretty windy. udaula jasto hawa lagcha yahan. ek chin mai sunny weather ani ek chin mai pani parna thalcha. people here are used to this, but since we just came here, we find it a little too cold. ani london auda sabai le dal bhat ekdum miss huncha timilai bhanera bhanthe. tara yahan aauda po thaha bhayo tyasto haina bhanera. everyday dal bhat nai khayincha yahan. chicken is cheaper than green vegetables re. so chicken ta almost everyday or every alternate day jastai khayincha.

will be writing abt my experiences as my days passes here in london. ahile lagi yeti nai.

missing u all................

Hike at Lakhure bhanjyang

It's been a while since I wrote a blog. So, after soooo many days, thought about writing about my hike to Lakhure bhanjyang.

The day was 27th January 2007 and time well past 7 am. Venue- Outside Patan Hospital. I was supposed to meet my frens from YTC (Youth Telecenter) at 7 and here I was.....late. Anyways, seemed like I was not the only one late today....Gud for me....Anyways, by 8, we were ready for the trip. We boarded a bus for Lamatar at Lagankhel bus park and hence, began our much-awaited trip.

The bus ride was uneventful and we came to Sisneri at around 9. We had our breakfast and then became our hike started. In the beginning, we moved in full throttle, full of energy and zeal. As we covered more distance, it became more difficult for us and we settled down wherever we could, catching our breath (hey...we are not used to this kind of hiking....so no complains about the delay). We even managed to go up to the tower area n man, was the effort worthwhile. The view from the tower was superb, worth all the effort.

By the time we reached for our lunch, we were drained out of any energy. The only thing we could think of was FOOD, of course. N when food was put on the table, we went for it. Hehe. After relaxing for a while, we went on to our next destination, the Country Kitchen. The place was gud, but we were a little disappointed with the unclear view. Nevertheless, we joked, relaxed and had enjoyed our time there.

Now, it was time for our descent, which was much easier (at least I thought so). After an hour or so of descent, we came to our resort. Thankfully. We were exhausted, tired, hungry, but satisfied with the hike. But the day was far from over. There was a lot to come. We rested a while, eat and then the FUN began.

We had planned to have bonfire in the evening. But it was not that easy as we thought. The fire would not burn easily, but we tried and tried and tried and then finally we had our fire ready. We played Dumbsharaj, Antakshari and joked around and had chicken barbeque (most of which tasted like coal, hehe). We had also planned for a surprise bday party for 2 of our YTC members. (But, guess wht, they were already expecting the surprise. Here goes our SURPRISE party).

Nevertheless, the trip was truly a wonderful experience. All in all, a gud experience, a memory to truly cherish.....

Women in ICT workshop

As a first step in our "Women in ICT" project, we organized a "Women in ICT: In Search of Identity" workshop on 19-20 December 2006 at SAP Falcha. Due to the bandh called on 19th Dec, we almost had to postpone the workshop. Nevertheless, we decided to go ahead with our schedule and indeed it was a good decision for significant number of participants turned up despite the disruption. The second day was also a fruitful one due to the presence of some key personalities.

The main question that our workshop focused on was "Why are women left behind in the ICT movement?". Discussions focused around the issue andwe were able to come up with quite a few strategies to address this issue, thanx to the valuable inputs and suggestions of the participants.

Another key feature of the workshop was the knowledge sharing mechanism that we used. Open Space methodology that we used to facilitate the discussions was appreciated and liked by all the participants. Also, setting up wiki stations was a key example of appropriation of technology.

All in all, the workshop was a satifying experience for us all.

The magic of AJAX

Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.

(From Wikipedia:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming))

WYSIWYG editor

WYSIWYG [wɪziwɪg] or [wiziwɪg]), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product.^[1] It is commonly used for word processors, but has other applications, such as Web (HTML) authoring.

The term describes a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document or image is being created. For example, a user can view on screen how a document will look when it is printed to paper or displayed in a Web browser. It implies the ability to modify the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands.

NOTE: Extract from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG)