Welcome to the Third edition of the Friday Linkfest. Read on for the best of the web :-)
Travel
World’s top 10 trekking destinations
The adventures of Wan
Must read for anyone who likes to ride on two wheels.
Roopkund Trek
Flickr stream of a friend who just came back after completing the Roopkund trek.
Technology
10 insanely useful Django tips
Amazon Kindle 2 in the wild ?
OpenSource you can use
Install boxee or xbmc on an Apple TV
Life
Bollywood – a misleading model for contemporary cinema
Deal Sealed

One of the good things about being a blogger is that I can always pen down(keyboard down ?) my thoughts whenever I want to. I can write about a subject and give my opinion on it. Hell, I think even having an opinion is one of the greatest benefits of blogging.
Those who know me, know that I don’t really care much about Politics. Politics, for the most part, bores me. And when it doesn’t bore me, I find it too predictable.
But, the last few months have even made me take notice.
First …

Welcome to the second edition of the Friday Linkfest. A week sure passes by quickly ! This post is to share with you guys some of the cool stuff that we’ve been reading here at NomadicRider. 
Open Source
16 Free tutorials for top open source applications
OStatic’s firefox superguide
Old and evergreen posts from OStatic. Lots of good stuff there.
GNOME 2.24 released 
The latest and greatest release of the Open Source GNOME Desktop. Read the release notes for a glimpse of all the cool stuff the GNOME people have lined up for us.
The browser arms …

So, I’ve been reading a lot. Two thousand seven hundred and ninety seven items in the last month, or so Google Reader tell me.
While I’m at it, I decided that I might as well share some stuff with you guys. After all, reading is a good thing, right ?
Here is a round up of some stuff that I’ve been reading from around the web.
Humour
Close shave with insurance
Sarcastic and Funny account of a person’s struggle to get a medical checkup done to get an insurance.
Travel
Experiencing an Asia beyond China and India
Experience …

There is something about watching prime time television. Even if the programs are crappy (which they usually are, wonder why they call them prime-time !), you can still smile looking at the advertisements.
Some of my favorite ones are the Hutch ads. It’s a good thing that even after buying over Hutch, Vodafone has kept the tradition of simple and to the point advertising !
• “You and I in this beautiful world…”
• The Pug…
• Canada walle Chacha jee,amrica walli mausi, benaras walle mausa jee and so on.. …

So, Vodafone is finally ready to launch the iPhone 3G in India. Vodafone in an SMS to all their customers announced this yesterday.
We are delighted to announce that the iPhone 3G will be available in India from August 22, 2008
It will be available in 8GB & 16GB models, priced at Rs …

Darren over at Problogger has a guest post by technosailor on  optimising web pages for faster load time post on some of the points to take care of when optimising your blog.
Most bloggers start with a small site hosted on a shared server and as most shared servers can’t handle the kind of traffic a good blogger is likely to see, it is generally a good idea to optimise your blog and carefully monitor the response times.
The post covers the use (or minimal use of) images,  avoiding third party scripts, caching and (surprise, surprise …

There have been a series of 5-8 (the exact number is not clear yet) low intensity blasts in Bangalore. One person has Three people have died till now and about 20 injured.
There is general chaos around the city and all telephone networks are Jammed right now.
This is the link to IBN Live’s coverage.

First of all I’ll get my credentials out of the way. I have been using computers since the last 10 or so years. That’s not much by a lot of people standards, but I like to brag about it anyway !
I used windows for the first year of my computer using life, got bored, moved to Linux, was fascinated and used Redhat, fedora, debian, slackware, ubuntu for the next 6 or so years.
I then got myself a Mac, a 2004 model iBook (I like the way Macheads use the year …

The Boy Who Left Home to find out about the Shiver
How many times have you watched FRIENDS, Star Trek, DDLJ or your wedding video. Ever wondered why there are these things that we go back to again and again. The logical reason is that either they are entertaining every time you watch them OR there are some memories associated with them that you RE-LIVE each and every time you watch those videos.
Well, I have one of those awesome memories about watching “The Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About …