Muhabbat-e-Rasool ka taqaza

This morning while driving to LUMS, I noticed that some @$$hole has pasted a "Muhabbat-e-Rasool ka taqaza" sticker on the rear widnshield of my car. Well, jackasses who are doing this, other people's property is not your billboard to paste posters on. Nor is causing people the trouble of scrapping off stickers from windscreens a "mohabbat-e-rasool ka taqaza."

They find out who's responsible

Well, they've found out who's responsible for their losses. But then, again, they've always given credit for everything to him. "Iss ka credit president saab ko jata hay. (Hum to minister bun ker bhaarh jhonk rahay hain)."

300 spartans!

Just 200? In my opinion, they'll need at least 300 spartans.

Why not!

Sure, why not!

I think......

This is what he predicts. And why not! What good are the pre-stamped ballot papers, otherwise?

Geo Musharraf

Geo Musharraf!

Pakistan cruising?

I dont need this! The country's petroleum reserves are extremely low and sufficient (for most products) for at most 6 days. Three bumpers crops every year, three years in a row and each year, we saw a shortage of the bumper crop. PIA is going down the drain, as are so many other valuable assets. Too much going on to list. All we get are successful test? We dont need that.

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.

Infant stimulation

I put together a small infant stimulation toy for Fatma from BabyStrology.com. My nephew Waaiz used to have a toy like this in Dallas. So, inspired by that, I developed my own, based on card, printouts and some thread. I'm posting a couple of photos of the toy. Fatma seemed really fascinated with it. During the first few months of the infancy, she can see only high contrast such as black on white. Putting shapes in such high contrast helps her learn to focus, and perhaps even learn to differentiate between shapes. Later on, she will learn to recognize colors and we should have toys for her accordingly.
I think the design of this toy could've been a lot simpler if I started with a cardboard circle, placed holes at six equidistant points and hung down the stimulation patterns from these holes. Three of these holes could be used to host the suspension strings to the roof. I did this toy without any rulers and this better design would've required a ruler for equidistant point placement. Plus, I'd have had to make extra efforts to ensure that the threads that the stimulation patterns hung from were equal length so that the toy wouldnt tilt to one side. Anyway, a little bit of engineering mechanics for Fatma there. If you need some schematics for this design, just drop me an email.

Mobile payment

Yup, bring it to Karachi. ASAP.

Forex

.Yet another forex source for the UK.

Knows something

This guy obviously knows something we dont. How can pardoning criminals from a selected period of time put an end to politics of revenge?

Worthless

These two have done nothing of note in their career except one or two occassions. They're complete wastes of time. Only good at one thing: modeling. Quit cricket already, both of you morons.

Live up to my expectations

I had bet my friend that Inzamam wasnt getting the 22 he needs to break Miandad's highest score in test cricket by a Pakistani batsmen. Not only did Inzi live up to my expectations, so did the rest of the team. Good work boys! I wonder what Inzi will do in the second innings. Hmmm, I hope he does live up to my expectations again. Whatever the case, I can picture his dismissal. He'll stand there for a long time, starting at nothing, wondering why he got out, and then in the applause of the SA team, and perhaps that of the crowd as well, make his way to the pavilion. I doubt that he'll be able to end not out in the second innings. That's too much to expect from Pakistan team in test cricket for a long time to come.

Who gives a shit?

Well, someone's angry at the Sindh CM's remarks. Come on, name me one person in the present setup who hasnt committed contempt of court. Take this one, for example. Between Durrani, Qusuri, Rasheed, and Sher Afgan, I cant decide who is the biggest joker.

Justice

One man is taking intiative. A friend of mine told me more than an year ago that a person who had bought these farm lands had gifted one to the President. I'm sure, looking at the above mentioned news item, there were several other gifts. The benefit to be had from these gifts was that an immaculate road was built to these luxury farm houses, thereby increasing the prices. How smart!

Friends

Friends indeed!