This doesn’t even have to do with the fact that he’s supporting the Palestinians, I just love the man’s willingness to speak his mind. Of course, this isn’t the first time for Galloway — he was similarly outspoken when he appeared for a US Senate hearing on the oil-for-food scandal. He’s a bit of a weird person [...]
Archive for September, 2006
Heeeere’s Mushy!
28Sep06Continuing the taxpayer-funded publicity tour for his autobiography, Pakistani President (and supreme military honcho) General Pervez Musharraf appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He comes off as a decently urbane, fairly liberal kinda guy. Proof? Check out the comments YouTuber’s left about the video. But there’s an unshakeable shadiness to him that he isn’t [...]
Nairang Foundation blog
28Sep06It’s up, here. The next step is to hand out accounts to the people I think will be interested in posting here. If you’re interested (and think I won’t be contacting you anyway!), please shoot me an email. The goal is to put up links related to current affairs, particularly development and politics, in [...]
On Wordpress
23Sep06Well, my 1-year experiment with Typo is over. It wasn’t all bad, but eventually I got fed up of having to babysit my blog. And in the meantime, Wordpress caught up with the only real functional advantages of Typo (AJAX integration). The migration has been fairly smooth thus far, thanks to SQL from Stuart Johnston [...]
Quick Hits
23Sep06There’s been some interesting stuff in the news recently: A guy traded a red paperclip for a house. This is just pure genius. A funny follow-up on what might result if one started with an iPod. Microsoft mulls offering a web-based productivity package. As pointed out on Slashdot, this certainly isn’t conclusive yet, but even so one [...]
Bumper-to-bumper in Islamabad
13Sep06Man, it’s good to be back home. Forsooth, Chicago/New York/London/Paris have their own charms, but there’s no city like Islamabad. When I visited in February this year, I felt a little depressed: Islamabad seemed jaded, the colours worn out and the lifestyle routine. Spring had just sprung when I visited in May, so the colours [...]
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