April 16, 2005April 16, 2024General English words derived from Persian Wikipedia is a siren that lures you deep into a maze of interesting articles and causes all productivity to drop to zero. […]
April 5, 2005April 16, 2024General The Suicidal Mobile These days, I carry two phones with me. The multi-function Samsung x600, that I bought almost a year ago, and a very […]
March 30, 2005April 16, 2024General State of my blog and referrer Fun I was just going through my web server logs for http://ahmedszaidi.com and was delighted to see that instead of reducing due to […]
March 26, 2005April 16, 2024General My trusty Thinkpad and Mrxvt I’ve started using my laptop again after letting it rest for a few months. My sitting area was starting to become a […]
March 25, 2005April 16, 2024General Nascon Gaming Tournament Last Saturday, FAST University held Nascon again. It was even bigger, better and more poorly organized than the last one. I was […]
March 15, 2005April 16, 2024General SPF Records for domains Phew, I’ve been a really busy bee for the last few weeks and haven’t even had time to blog. One of the […]
February 26, 2005April 16, 2024General Earthquake Just had an earthquake. Not that big, but pretty big for Islamabad. They’re not as common here as in places like Japan, […]
February 24, 2005April 16, 2024General The “Just Lose It” Competition Found this while reading Live from Yokohama. The Eminem competition was to ring someone you know and make them “just lose it”. […]
February 21, 2005April 16, 2024General Snow in Pindi A strange thing happened last night. I was driving home through Rawalpindi after attending the 10th Muharram (Ashura) mourning and everyone was […]
February 15, 2005April 16, 2024General Slackware 10.1 is out Just noticed the announcement yesterday and promptly started the bittorrent download though haven’t tried it out yet. Upgrading to it might solve […]