After thinking, thinking, and thinking, I came up with a name for my new company: Compurius. Here’s how it’s derived:
Computer + Aquarius = Compurius

Compurius will be providing FOSS, Linux and IT security services to small to large enterprises along with provide value added services for domain registration and hosting companies in Bangladesh. Technology Ahead, that’s the slogan!

Timeline: May 7 – May 8

The tiresome 2 day Technical Lead Teacher’s traning ended today. The TLTs got hands-on training on:

Assembling Pentium 4 computers
Installing OS (Windows XP and Mandriva Linux)
Installing and updating application programs
Securing a box
Anti-virus and malware protection
And more.

Timeline: March 27 – March 29

Stuffs that happened this time:
- Mr. Faruque was me
- We took Jack’s car (he’s in Australia now)
- Akram was fired due to his poor performance at work

Jack gave us a treat at El Toro, a Mexican restaurant in Gulshan. Here’s a picture that we took together after the heavy lunch:

Just in case if you haven’t recognized me yet: I’m the second last person from left, in blue shirt and blue jeans!

Timeline: Jan 15 – Jan 19
I reached the port city on Sunday evening, on the very comfy Shohag Volvo Bus. I stayed at Asian SR Hotel this time, and I’m extremely happy about their service. It’s very apparent that the hotel authority has taken extra special care in training the staff. The room was great, so was the food! The hotel has a bar as well, and I tried out some Chinese liquor!
I’ll skip the reason why I went there, since it will only bore you. Instead, I’ll leave you with a few impressions and observations I had about the city of Chittagong.

- With so many small and not-so-small hills around, the natural scenery of the city is a truly magnificent. It’s an old city, and the buildings and the oak trees bearing the sign of it. One of the attractions of the city is Patenga sea beach, which is …

I went to Proshika’s training center at Manikgonj to assist my boss on his video editing project. Nine American exchange students paired up with fourteen Bangladeshi peers, and created five short and not-so-short documentaries on the lifestyles of Bangladeshi villagers. Our mission was to edit these videos and to make them presentable!

Our mobile editing team consisted of my boss Jack Welch and me, and we used 3 laptops and some high-end software to do so. It took the whole day to edit the videos; and by supper time, we were ready. We hooked one of the laptops to a 29″ TV and showed the documentaries to the kids and the RI battalion who were accompanying them.
My boss dropped me home at midnight — it took one and a half hour to get back to Dhaka.