Youtube down.. Pakistan responsible for it..

Youtube was down for a couple of hours this morning. And I was taken by surprise when I came to know the reason. OpenDNS reports that Pakistan was responsible for it and it was able to hijack the IP address of Youtube making it unavailable for millions around the world. Although the problem is now fixed, it still amazes me on how a third world ISP can hijack the IP address of such a well known website. Are these websites so vulnerable that it cannot prevent such an outage. This opens up a lot more possibilities for such websites to become unavailable going forward. I only wish that the identities of some many online users do not get compromised because of such unruly activities. God help the Internet!!!

Back after a small break...

I wanted to blog a bit more regularly starting this year but have not been able to, given my work commitments. But I am going to try a little more harder now. Let us see how this one works. I am also planning to dust off my Canon 30D to start working on my photography. To motivate myself to do that, I have installed GIMP and the Ufraw plug-in to detect my Canon RAW files in my GIMP editor. I am planning to take more RAW images and use GIMP for my post processing. I have been putting this off for quite some time. 2 reasons. Laziness and lack of time.
Next in my wish list is a good flash for my 30D. I am leaning against the 430EX. But I wanted to buy this flash using my stock photography proceeds. Lets see how that works out. I am also planning to blog on how I use GIMP to create my stock photography portfolio. Hopefully, I am able to create a good How-to guide on it.
Wish me luck!!!