Sep 03
The hype is all around the new Google Chrome browser. It has loads of good things in it especially with tabs being separate processes. It helps in better memory management which I had serious problems with running Yahoo! mail, Gmail and Netvibes all in a same browser tabs for longer time. My browser always used to end up having memory leaks.
But the best thing is the marketing antic of releasing the comic book of how Chrome works. It is absolute classic way to explain the sheer technical details of the browser. It’s so exciting and entertaining that I couldn’t stop reading it until the end. And considering that we have been working on a presentation of our Grad thesis for the last few days, focusing on how we can explain our stuff to laymen and keep their concentration during the gory technicalities of the project, this comic book surely leverages some new pathways. I’ll recommend all you guys out there even if they are not from the computer background to go through it.
Presentation of your stuff is a very important part of the whole innovation you are doing. You might be the best technical guy out there but if you can’t make people go wow then you are surely loosing it. And presentation has a llooooott more to do than just talking and waving your hands. As much as usually people admire me on my communication skills but I still beleive there is hell lot more left to do. And surely these publicity stunts by the big companies like Jobs speeches and this very comic book opens up a lot of new dimensions of how instilling an awe-struck feeling into your audience about your project/product.
Aug 19
Even though I know crap how the whole inflation, currency rates, import/export, assets and all that economy thing works but considering the dire straits our whole economical setup is and to top it off with our media constantly over-emphasizing on the bad points, articles like this and this really gives you a faaaaaaar off hope.
Aug 04
credit: one of my favourite bloggers: Dare Obasanjo
Jul 05
One of the interesting phrases which we often use in football is
shrugs off the dust and starts running again.
It refers to player’s stubborness to keep on track regardless how unfair the opponents or maybe the referee is dealing with him.
We see a lot in football that referees taking wrong decisions or opponents playing hard and over-physical style reminiscent of rugby. As much as everyone despise such scenarios but the true genious of a player is recognized to be one who even after a harsh unfair tackle doesn’t stand up and start complaining , you know on the ever so dramatic line ‘yeh asool ki baat hay’ (it’s the matter of principle) but infact simply shrugs of the dust and start playing again. He has an obstacle defying the basic rules of football but rather than crying over that he keeps his focus. Knows where his vision leads to and puts his concentration on achieving the aim rather than getting lost somewhere in the middle.
One of the biggest regrets I had in my life is that in my third semester in FAST, due to some differences with the advisor I quitted Quran Society. It was a non-existent society with minimal influence but the idea of quitting simply disgusts me even after all these years.
I see this a lot in Pakistanis here. They loose the plot very easily. They have a vision, they start off for it. The find some challenge and they simply get lost with it. They totally loose the focus. Either they’ll complain that we have no electricity, the system is too unfair, the politics etc. or they’ll simply quit under the extravagant yet laughable idea thinking ‘they stood to the principle’. While all they actually did was to shrug off the challenge and step back. They totally jumped out of the race because they were too much of a chicken to accept the unfair obstacle as a challenge and face the chin music.
I remember Steve Jobs saying somewhere that he was actually kicked out of the company he very much created himself. He tried to counter it, couldn’t do it. Simply shrugged off the dust and created a new company which was eventually bought by Apple. It’s a small anecdote but it’s gives a massive insight how vision is not to be confused with the issues/obstacles in the path no matter how unjust they are.
Complainers will complain all their life and no one will budge. Quitter will remain quitters thinking they stood for a principle while all they did was fooled by their egos which eventually corrupted their visions (if they had any).
This is how good and great is differentiated, I believe.
Jun 25
sorry I just got the confirmation
It’s tonight 11:00pm. Technically two hours from now.
Jun 23
Sorry guys, due to some technical issues, the radio is down. I’ll let you know the new time.
Jun 23
Who would’ve thought one day I’ll be an RJ ? 
Some Luminites came up with an idea of having an in-campus radio and with some help from the administration they did a pretty cool job in setting up one. You can listen it online.
So they wanted students to run their shows and I volunteered for one too. I couldn’t come up with a topic (and considering music crap was out of question) so I came up with football. And considering my favourite topic is usually to go off-topic, I think I’ll most probably drift frequently. Heck who cares about footy, I just wanted some air time. I know I can blabber a lot and a wise man once said
Good RJ is the one who blabbers
Yea, that’s my own quote but anyways tune into http://radio.lums.edu.pk (Updated Time) tonight (Wednesday) at 11:00 pm. I literally have zero preparation and considering my routine, I know I won’t do any. Lets see how it goes.
Don’t forget to setup your microphone. It has an option of calling the host. It’ll be cool if you can share some blabber. Would really take the burden off. People all around the world (like Sharjah ;)) would be listening. Yes, this is your moment of glory and shot for fame.
And check out the banner below which I posted outside the canteen :p
do I sound a tad desparate?
Jun 10
picture credit: Hafiz Rizwan
ps: iPhone 2 is out. It rocks and it’s cheap. I’ll be waiting for it.
Jun 09
Imagine; Your nikah being done in Madinah. Inside Masjid-Nabvi, infront of the Rauza-Rasool(SAW). Surely a dream.
but apparently Idrees just hit a jackpot. It’s been worth the wait.
Congratulations Man !!! Looking forward to a treat (not known as Walima 
)
but considering the fact I’ve enough time and interactions with Idrees to talk about the event and eat his head (unless he goes AWOL in Dubai 
) I’ll reserve this space for bhabee. A few good words, as they say.
Hi bhabee,
Ok without exxaguration, I think you are friggin lucky. I have known this jerk for like 7 years and I don’t think any of his other friends know him better and it has been an absolute joyride. I have seen people who just get married for the sake of it. Half of them infact don’t even want to. They just think it’s part of the whole life cycle but Idrees has always been looking forward to this. And I think it’s great news for you. As he aims to make it special for you and does not consider you just another also-ran as more than half of our current generation has the atttitude towards their spouses. And Idrees is unique in the regard that he is extra damn caring. Like even at times when I’ve acted like a jerk but he has always been a true friend. Always caring and sincere. And it’s sublime in the context that he’s been like this to us (Well atleast to me), I can’t really imagine what he would be to his life partner.
I really hope you guys have an awesome time together. And may every minute you spend together becomes a memory forever to cherish.
Good Luck !
May 30
‘woha very impressive…that reminded me of my MIT days’
- Faculty member after going through our presentation last night.
Good work Omar, Inam !
