January 18, 2006April 16, 2024General Mechanical Turk Dave sent this link to the Mechanical Turk, a beta service from Amazon. “Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. […]
January 17, 2006April 16, 2024General Million Dollar home page My ex-colleague and friend Naeem was recently here from Lahore and we were discussing online advertising when he told me about the […]
January 17, 2006April 16, 2024General Hairy Barbarians on blogging This heading from my friend Tim’s blog, partly sums up the state of mine: “If bloggers read more they would write less.” […]
January 12, 2006April 16, 2024General Eid ul Azha Mubarik We celebrated “Eid ul Azha”/”Hari Raya Haji”/”Annual Hajj and Sacrifice” yesterday in Pakistan. The celebration lasts three days so this post is […]
January 9, 2006April 16, 2024General New Hi-Power Vim Apparently, my favorite text editor can now do more than just configure Linux/UNIX servers or provide cool features for Python (replace with […]
January 7, 2006April 16, 2024General Controlling Apache’s resource usage One of the servers I’m maintaining was acting strange due to a badly programmed PHP page. It would cause the server to […]
January 3, 2006April 16, 2024General 2005 in 25 words It was a turbulent year for me and one where I felt I didn’t achieve much, but there were some very special […]
January 2, 2006April 16, 2024General New server host for a new year Due to a problem at the office where my server was previously hosted, all my email and websites were down for about […]
December 20, 2005April 16, 2024General Gmail Mobile and RSS Google has just announced a batch of holiday goodies for Gmail. Among my favorites is Gmail Mobile which lets you use Gmail […]
December 17, 2005April 16, 2024General Japanese standards in a Pakistani world 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 […]