Phenkta hay salaa

Phenkta hay salaa! Konsa loss? They're buying most of their oil on subsidised prices from Saudi Arabia. They're not suffering any loss. Oil companies and government is earning huge chunks.

Badal raha punjab

Whether or not "badal raha Punjab" which means "Punjab is changing" is an accurate statement or not, the boring, on screen all day publicity campaign of Ch. Pervez Elahi and GPM, who gives a crap if Punjab is changing? We're more intersted in whether Pakistan is changing or not. It's a stupid sectrian advertisement campaign.

Respect

Such is our establishment. Such is our country. Such is the respect we pay to our teachers. Such is the treatment metted out to people who left comfortable job offers abroad to seek to do some good to education in our homeland. Two LUMS faculty members were arrested by police during a peaceful protest outside HRCP.
Look at www.dawn.com, look at www.geo.tv/geonews. My source of daily authentic news are gone. Will Benazir pull string in DC to do something about this? Perhaps, only if the wrath falls on her.

Master pages

I delivered a brief talk about ASP.NET 2.0 Master pages, and Membership controls at MS Faculty Meet 2007 at Pearl Continental Hotel Lahore recently. There was a question directed towards me during the Q&A session, which I was advised to take offline. However, I had to split after the Q&A session while the audience had dinner. Perhaps the person who asked the question would read this blog and get the answer.
His question was that pages based on Master pages are very slow to load, which is troublesome over dialup connections. Slower compared to perhaps frames based pages. Then, the other part of the question was that "Microsoft" stores a small 6-9kB configuration file on the client computer which is again a slow operation.
First, my talk was targeted for an academic setting in which speed efficiency of development is more critical than speed efficiency during use. There are comparisons of Master Pages and Frames on the web so I wouldnt replicate them here. You can google them out. Plus, there are ways to improve your webpage load times. An ASP.NET MVP would be better positioned to answer that question for you. Also, the answers are out there on MSDN and the web. About the configuration file, perhaps the reference was to session management, and that is a necessary evil. Once again, I'm sure there are ways to improve the size of that file, as well as the duration between transfers of that file.