This month sees my first ever trip to the states where Neil (aka ClaymoreFan on the forums) and I will be hitting the Big Apple and harrassing unsuspecting yanks! ;) If you fancy catching up with us we’ll be at the Jolly Madison Towers hotel in Manhattan (212-802-0600) between the 12th and 16th March 2003. If you’re nice to us we may take a trip down to the nearest gaming café and tank your tail at counterstrike or quake III, have a few beers and talk tech :)
We’re looking forward to doing the whole tourist thing, including a trip on the old WWII Aircraft carrier USS Interpid and testing the theory that American chicks dig guys with Scottish accents with hilarious results. Who said giving geeks l337 social sk177z wasn’t a good idea?
If enough people show interest we'll arrange a group geekathon with plenty of digicam pics which i promise to publish on neowin as an article when we get back.
Defnitely wanna come? Email me! and we can talk details
We’re looking forward to doing the whole tourist thing, including a trip on the old WWII Aircraft carrier USS Interpid and testing the theory that American chicks dig guys with Scottish accents with hilarious results. Who said giving geeks l337 social sk177z wasn’t a good idea?
If enough people show interest we'll arrange a group geekathon with plenty of digicam pics which i promise to publish on neowin as an article when we get back.
Defnitely wanna come? Email me! and we can talk details
The .af domain was first registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in October 1997 by a private Afghan citizen named Abdul Razeeq, according to Aimal Marjan, an adviser to the minister of communications.
According the IANA Web site, however, Razeeq later disappeared and some services were halted to the .af domain.
Efforts to relaunch it began again after the Taliban were ousted in a U.S.-led war in late 2001.
"For Afghanistan, this is like reclaiming part of our sovereignty," Communications Minister Mohammad Moassom Stanakzai said in a statement on Sunday.
So far, just two Web sites have been registered under the .af domain, one belonging to the Ministry of Communications, the other to UNDP. As of Sunday, the ministry site was still "under construction."
Despite the Internet's spread around the world in the last decade, it remains a rarity in Afghanistan, which is still struggling to recover from more than two decades of near-continuous warfare.
A handful of Internet cafes have sprung up in the war-battered capital, Kabul, since last summer, but online time is too expensive for the average citizen, who typically earns less than a dollar a day.
On the Net:
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority: http://www.iana.org
Afghan Ministry of Communications: http://www.moc.gov.af
U.N. Development Program, Afghanistan: http://www.undp.org.af
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