January 24, 2006April 16, 2024General Google’s search refusal Google has been asked by the White House to hand over records of internet searches its users have performed. So far it […]
January 23, 2006April 16, 2024General Don’t touch that standby button The BBC has an article on how much extra energy devices, such as televisions, consume and the amount of emissions they generate […]
January 21, 2006April 16, 2024General Worst, Interview, Ever I was recently approached by someone from a very big interesting company (won’t say which one, but virtually everyone knows and uses […]
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 […]