I’ve neglected the blog for far too long. There are close to 10,000 comments by spammers so to start off, I’m disabling comments completely. I’m still dreaming about turning Pylogger into the Python equivalent of WordPress, but that’ll likely need a couple more days of work. 🙂 Seriously, I’d be writing more often if I […]
Now that the slow, but blessed month of Ramadan and the Eid season are over, I am starting to be a little more productive. As usual, there was a lot to write about and ample time to utilize my literary skills, but this year’s fasting month was especially hard and as you may have seen […]
This was a serious status update that I recently made on Facebook about what the Pakistani lawyer movement had turned into. Hilarity soon ensued and it became a discussion of what a Pakistani Superhero should be like. You can read it here: Me: Lawyers fighting each other like kids and turning into a rowdy mob. […]
It’s finally here. Tux’s 18th birthday. It was 18 years ago today, 26th August, that Linux Torvalds unleashed Linux upon the world via this message: Hello to all those using Minix. I am creating an operating system (free) (for pure hobby, will not be as big or professional like gnu) for AT clones 386 (486). […]
For the past couple of years, there hasn’t been a lot of positive news coming out of Pakistan and although it has remained quite insulated from the effects of the global recession, things haven’t been too rosy. I was recently reading a nice article on Dawn titled Silly Season in Pakistan that explored the possibility […]
Just got home (at 2am) after being stuck on Islamabad’s roads for a few hours. Cars, bikes, vans, you name it; they were all out on the  roads, crawling at a snail’s pace and blocking all intersections. However, it was nothing to be mad about. Pakistan’s 62nd independence day is here and the party has […]
For the last few years, the growth in Pakistan’s telecom sector has been spectacular. Yes, we’re still waiting for 3G and there’s plenty of room for improvement, but we have one of the fastest growing number of users and among the lowest call rates in the world. Competition between the various operators has been fierce, […]
This year has been especially rough for gadgets and tech in general. Murphy’s Law has struck not once, not twice, but a number of times and I put it all down to a cycle of life that everything follows. I lost most of my equipment to power damage a couple of months ago. More recently, […]
Heard about the shocking news about an hour back and it’s official. Michael Jackson has passed away at the age of 50. Although I was never a real fan, I remember being asked to write a letter in school to my favorite musician. Only one name came to mind: Michael Jackson. I also remember John, […]
Firstly, let me just say that despite my great love for participating in most kinds of sports and physical activities, the thought of watching a match from the couch doesn’t quite appeal to me (well, maybe with the exception of the FIFA World Cup). And when it comes to Cricket, I have neither the patience, […]