Google has just announced a batch of holiday goodies for Gmail. Among my favorites is Gmail Mobile which lets you use Gmail from your phone, and viewing RSS feeds within Gmail. I was looking for both features and was going to write something to enable web email from my phone, but now I can just […]
Maintaining Japanese standards is a challenge. But when you’re doing it in Pakistan, it’s a nightmare in hell. I’m managing a project for the Japanese where despite all the planning and preparation, it is running well below my expectations (and hence the clients’). While I almost never had to deal with Japanese clients directly in […]
Just felt another earthquake in Islamabad. Though not as big as the 8th October quake, it felt stronger than any of its aftershocks did. It started off slowly, but soon the doors were rattling and it went on for quite long. There’s still nothing on the USGS Earthquake page or any of the news sites […]
My first aim with the Nokia 6680 was to get GPRS working. I tried to make it work with both my Warid and Ufone connections, without success. I realized later that the Ufone connection didn’t even have GPRS enabled and that I would have to pay just to enable the service. I distinctly remember that […]
Last couple of days, I’ve been getting dozens of comment spams on posts with a high ranking. I don’t want to disable comments and will fight it out so I’ve added some code to make it unattractive for the pesky spammers. Details withheld for now.
One of the reasons I got a new phone was so that I could cover the 20th World Men Team Squash Championship being held here in Islamabad. I’m part of the team providing technical support and connectivity at the venue and the Squash Federation’s website is also hosted by us. http://www.paksquash.com/ Squash may seem like […]
After a couple of years of using inexpensive, low-featured phones, I finally took the plunge and bought the best thing that I could find (without going into the overkill area). My priority was to be able to post quality photos on the blog and be able to moblog text easily. That meant a high-quality camera […]
Yesterday, I was in a meeting at the Aga Khan Foundation’s Islamabad office and we got to talking about everything the AKF is doing for the victims of the October earthquake. Other than the US/British (and NATO?) Chinooks, the only major helicopter fleet still delivering aid and evacuating the survivors belong to the Agha Khan […]
I’m at the office where all I have at the moment is a Windows PC without Firefox or Gaim (though PuTTY is installed). An Ask Slashdot question and my desire to IM led me to Meebo. It’s a web-based client that allows you to use multiple protocols, similar to Gaim, but without having to install […]
I’ve been blogging for over 3 years now and have had my own website for even longer, yet have never cared about licensing issues related to my site or work. I didn’t think it was very important and didn’t have much interest in these issues anyway. Not even after attending a talk by Lawrence Lessig […]