Posted on November 11, 2008, 10:58 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
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At the occasion of the World Usability Day, the Interaction Design Center has organized an event at the UMT Campus on Thursday, November 13th. The event will consist of a series of talks, case studies, and a documentary screening. Every year the event has a theme and this year’s theme is transportation. Three reasons you […]
Posted on May 14, 2008, 12:16 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
After years and years of abuse, my pinkies can’t take it anymore and have hijacked my remaining fingers (and the thumbs) into writing this post. So if you are a developer, a database designer, or just writes APIs or SDKs or programming languages or opensource code that other people will reuse, and if you love […]
Posted on April 27, 2008, 6:11 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
Back in the 90s, I used to install and reinstall Windows 95 over and over again due to one reason or another (and I am sure it was the same for any Windows user). The last time I did a clean install, though, was 2 years ago, when I bought this laptop and killed the […]
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Posted on February 9, 2008, 1:32 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
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Pakistan.
I originally started this post to share this spanking brand spanking new report on Broadband penetration in Pakistan by our Ministry of Information Technology titled "Is Entire Pakistan Underserved?", and was just going to write something weakly funny about it like "Yes, you bet it is, you could have asked me instead of wasting money […]
Posted on January 19, 2008, 4:53 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
The Election Commision of Pakistan has released their cutting-edge website that allows anyone who can read and type Urdu to search for any 'Live' (and I presume, dead as well) voters in Pakistan. It is no mean feat to develop an Urdu website in Canada (handling a character-set twice the size of the English alphabet […]