Author: ReallyVirtual

When you are ‘Needing’ a ‘Helping’ Hand from PTCL

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… you should be waiting and cursing and wishing the hand gets the time off from his busy schedule to help you. I have been trying to get through to the PTCL help line for two hours now, with the intention of getting their “broadband” connection… maybe I should get Wateen instead. I don’t understand who writes the content for our official websites! Here’s the funny screenshot:

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UPDATE:
So, as soon as LESCO allowed me, I went to the Wateen website for some comparison shopping, but their Home Users page (error page) politely told me ‘It seems there is a missing link, we apologies for that.’
I couldn’t help noticing the wii-con-act WECONNECT logo on the page. Thank God ironies are more funny than frustrating, or I would be dead by now.
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We are toads

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ImagePaulo Coelho's book 'The Alchemist' has been the top favorite of the Pakistan Network on Facebook for a few months now. It is not surprising, as the story has a lot of things in common with the mystic/symbolic fairy tales that my generation (or at least a subset of my generation) was brought up on. This post, though is about Paulo's blog, which is usually filled with though-provoking positive content (and these days, we can surely use all the positivity we can get). A couple of days ago, I read an interesting observation on Paulo's blog about toads, that reminded me of this nation called Pakistan (and it had nothing to do with toads being green). He says:

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Brainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns

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Its been one year since I started working with the Blue Brain Project team. Dr. Felix Schürmann, the Project Manager of the Blue Brain Project, informed me last week that the project is officially entering its next phase very soon, which has got me pretty excited.

Meanwhile, here's what the rest of the world of Brains (aka. neuroscience) has been up to recently:

PS. On the number of 'n's in the post title (18), I became curious how people actually spelled brai(n)+s, and spent the next 5 minutes charting out the Google hits. Here are the results:

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