Photos Of The Day

Anyer Beach at Sunda Straight, Indonesia Anyer is home of a forty metre lighthouse built by King Willem III of the Netherlands in 1885 as a memorial for the townspeople killed by the eruption of Krakatau, which destroyed the town.[1] The original lighthouse was destroyed by a tsunami created by the eruption of Kraka...

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Avro Vs. Bijoy: Let Language Be Free

The Bangla blogosphere and Bangladeshi Facebook users are infuriated with protests as 'Avro', a freeware and one of the popular and widely used Bangla input systems, was accused as a pirated version of another popular Bangla input system 'Bijoy' and the Avro team was mentioned as hackers. In an article in a Bangla news daily, Mustafa Jabbar, the proprietor of Bijoy and a pioneer of Bangla computing said hackers were responsible for spreading pirated...

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Apocalypse In Europe

You might wonder, what a peculiarly named volcano (Eyjafjallajökull -how do you pronounce it?) in Iceland can mean to Europe. Eyjafjallajökull is actually a glacier in Iceland which covers a volcano (1,666 metres or 5,466 ft in height) which has erupted relatively frequently since the Ice Age. The volcano eruption in 14 April (see pictures) caused massive disruption to air traffic across Northern Europe. From Wikipedia: "On 14 April 2010 Eyjafjallajökull...

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Moral Question

Jakrtass, an expat blog from Jakarta usually posts some witty and satirical stuffs on Indonesia. Here is a snippet from a latest post which can be interpreted for many countries, including Bangladesh. Moral paper Question: 1. Read the following passage and answer the question below: There once was a country where everyone was a beggar. In the streets, the conventional panhandlers begged on bridges and sidewalks, buses and trains. At traffic lights they put their babies’ faces up at car windows and sang songs in the street. In the rush hour beggars...

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Bangla Blogs At The BOBS - Meet Ali Mahmed

This interview was first published in Global Voices Online. Deutsche Welle's 2010 The Best Of Blogs (BOBs) international award has a significance for the Bangla (Bengali) bloggers in Bangladesh, India and the Bengali diaspora around the world. In its 6th round of blogging competition Bangla language blogs have been included in the BOBs [bn] for the first time. With approximately 230 million speakers, Bangla is one of the most spoken languages...

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Merak Harbour in West Java

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Quoting Blogposts And Copyright Issues

(Image by Flickr user Horia Varlan, used under a Creative Commons License) A growing problem in today's blogosphere is copy-pasting. When you are trying to find some original opinions - you will be surprised how many bloggers resort to just copy-pasting a news or a whole blogpost from other blogs. The line between spamblog or splogs and these blogs then disappears. I link to other blogs a lot. I quote from them, analyze them dissect them or...

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How To Deliver a Great Presentation

Steve Jobs of Apple is considered a great presenter. Here are some excellent advices and tricks [video + slides] for delivering an effective presentation from Businessweek columnist Carmine Gallo, who is also the author of the book - The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (via Digital Inspirations). "Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinion drown out your inner voice. Stay Hungry, stay foolish."...

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Moral Police Target Lungis In Sharjah

A man should be judged by his deeds not on his appearance - Al Quran The migrant labors from South Asia have played a great role in the transformation of Middle Eastern countries. Most of their construction works consisted of physical labors by people of this region. They clean the garbage, work in shops even some have been recruited by the police. But in general they are being looked down upon as miskins (beggars), mainly because they are poor enough....

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Collateral Murder by US In Iraq

At last we see the instance of a whistle blowing incident from the US army - a classified US military video shot from an Apache helicopter. Reuters had been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act but failed until Wikileaks.org published them online. The US helicopter gunship attacked a group of Iraqi men in New Baghdad on July 12, 2007: Short Version Full version (38 minutes) Two Reuters journalists were killed and...

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Bangladesh Surf Club

The Bangladesh Surf Club from Jedidiah Clothing on Vimeo. A documentary following the lives of the Bangladesh surf contingent and showing the unique cultural impact of surf on the local community. The youth of Bangladesh, many from poor families, come together to share their love of surfing. The world's longest beach Cox's Bazaar has also surfing opportunities. Jafar Alam, the first known surfer from Bangladesh saw a surfboard in 1991. Here is...

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