Afterword

ThimphuTech was the first technology blog in Bhutan. We started writing it in 2009, just as broadband and mobile internet started to take off. (Although internet in Bhutan was launched in 1999, it was either super-slow or super-expensive, and was only used by a selected few).

In the blog, we wrote about technology and food, but also about plenty of other stuff. The blog became popular and influential in Bhutan. A companion bi-weekly column -- Ask Boaz -- was published for many years in the Kuensel, Bhutan's national newspaper. (The complete Kuensel columns are available as an ebook, Blogging with Dragons).

We stopped updating the blog when we left Bhutan in 2014, but the information within the posts can still prove useful, and thus we decided to keep it online.

We thank all our readers.
Tashi Delek,
Boaz & Galit.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Unemployment among Google Chrome users?

Like many young people in Bhutan, one of my students who uses Google Chrome as her web browser is looking for a job. Google Chrome is my preferred web browser, as it is faster and more secure than other browsers. Hence, we have Chrome installed on our lab computers. Back to our story. The student went to MoLHR's website, and clicked on the "Job Vacancy" link. Here is what she saw:


No wonder unemployment is rising...

Obviously, the folks at MoLHR don't make it easy to read the job descriptions - unless you're a computer, that is! A quick check revealed that the information is provided as an XML RSS feed, which is a format used by special programs called RSS readers. It is not designed to be displayed using web browsers. Although the newer versions of Internet Explorer display this information in a more readable format, webmasters must check that their website is rendered properly by all major browsers. 
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  1. SogyelThursday, November 10, 2011

    create the job by sacking those fools there...we seem so unfriendly in providing services and sharing information

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