At least someone is still concerned about the harms of HTML email. Email formatted with HTML has become so common these days that even I, previously a staunch opponent, started using it a few months back. Now, the Department of Defense has barred the use of both HTML email, as well as Outlook Web Access. […]
It has been four days since my last post about Faisal Chohan’s mistaken arrest and fourteen days since I posted about the accident caused by Faisal Farooq, which resulted in the death of a baby. As of now, Faisal Chohan, the CEO of Cogilent Solutions which was mistakenly raided after suspicion that it was providing […]
I read about the effects that Coke and other soft drinks have on your body, a few days back via Hulleye Comes By!. As I recently mentioned, Pakistanis have lately stopped worrying much about their diet and health and I’m sure that this will result in some serious problems after some time. Articles like this […]
The latest update on the Cogilent Solutions case, and the false arrest and detainment of their CEO, is that the Minister of IT and Telecom, Mr. Owais Leghari, has ordered that the CEO, Faisal Chohan, be released from custody. Here is an Urdu news snippet about this from the Jang newspaper: Click to view full […]
Though the camera on my Communicator is surprisingly good, I never got around to using it on a regular basis, mainly due to the hassles of transferring the images. I would have to email them as attachments to my email account (through WiFi off course) and then transfer them back to the laptop from my […]
The illegal voice termination case against Cogilent Solutions has been dropped after it was found out that the PTA/FIA had raided the wrong office. In an incredible show of incompetence and carelessness, the IP address that was in use by the actual perpetrators was mistakenly associated with Cogilent. This simple mistake resulted in the arrest […]
I’ve been working on a Python project and had done quite an amount of coding when I decided to rename a few files. While doing this, the most important file, the one with the most code in it, got deleted. It was on a ReiserFS partition and I couldn’t recall any tool that I could […]
You might have read of the recent raid by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the premises of my former employer, Cogilent Solutions, and the subsequent arrest of their CEO, Faisal Chohan. The raid was conducted under the suspicion that Cogilent was providing illegal voice termination services, yet they have yet to produce (or fabricate) […]
You may have heard of a disturbing story developing during the last few days regarding the death of a 2-month old baby and Faisal Farooq, the son of the owner of Nirala Sweets which is a popular confectionary chain in Pakistan. A Mr.Waseem, travelling with his 2-month old son and other family members, crashed his […]
It’s been a slow (news) week so don’t have much to say, though I myself am as busy as ever. What better to write about than weather? It has been raining, almost continuously, for three days now and everything is cold and wet. For a change, Islamabad is somehow reminding me of a typical day […]