Posted on September 24, 2008, 4:22 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
It started with the perceptive ProPakistani people noticing how Google has never had an Islam themed doodle on their homepage, and Dr. Awab picked up the discussion the next day. I personally think that Google not showing any Doodles for Islamic events has something to do with their “Do No Evil” policy 😉 Seriously though, […]
Posted on September 19, 2008, 7:34 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
I have invented this thing that I call “Roza-rolling” in the spirit of ‘rick-rolling’. It involves a Google image search on queries like “chicken roast” or “bbq meat”, wrapping a tinyurl around it, and throwing it towards my fellow Pakistani ‘Rozadaars’ on Twitter – during fasting hours. Thankfully, they don’t mind (I hope) due to […]
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 May 8, 2008, 1:05 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Brain.
A phrase that has been really bothering me since I was a teenager is “Chain of Thought” or “Train of Thought” – it even has its own wiki page! As I have recently realized that one use of blogs are meant to be a personal ranting space, so let me do that. A chain is […]
Posted on March 22, 2008, 9:58 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
I, the good cop, mailed a long rant to the PTCL Broadband manager, Mr. Ali Raza Baloch, last week, after getting his email from the helpline. He forwarded my complaint to a couple of relevant people, asking them to help me out, but that didn't happen. Meanwhile, a friend, the bad cop, sent a written […]