Yep, that’s my current state of mind. I’ve successfully wasted half of the weekend (and am proceeding to waste more, keystroke by keystroke right now…) doing this, that and the other, and now I have just a few hours left to buckle down and get some work done. Actually, I got a little bit of work [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Make no mistake, I give the guy props for at least representing the Pakistani perspective (and in decent English, thank god). Sadly, the PCB’s inertial frame defies human understanding, so the poor guy’s columns always read the same way, the ad-hoc way the Board is run, decrying the lack of a constitution. That’s in addition [...]
I gotta say, I’m pretty pissed off with IE 5/6 now. I didn’t bother looking at the new theme with it and it turns out now that it looks pretty crappy. Well known problems, such as the transparent PNG issue and CSS incompatibilities make this such a massive headache. On this blog, for example, the [...]
Brave New Economy
13Oct06Wow, this New Economy stuff just gets more and more interesting. First, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought out MySpace for a massive $580 million. In recent months, that’s been called a bargain. In fact, it has been, given that Google’s paid $900 million for advertising rights on the site, making Murdoch a 55% return in his [...]
Youtube Dance Essentials
07Oct06Allowing people to create lists like this…that’s why YouTube is going to succeed. Uh-huh. Let’s start with the original Numa Numa dance. (The song is Dragostea Din Tei, by O-Zone — the original video’s pretty funny too.) Moving on, the famous scene from Napoleon Dynamite. This is the highlight of the movie, and though the rest of it [...]
Big update
06Oct06I’ve been busy lately, what with school finally starting and Ramadan and all. I’m just posting a few bullet points for now, and then a description of life at LSE so far will follow tomorrow, IA. You need to read this article by Uri Avnery. Go ahead, read it, I’ll wait. It’s worth your time. [...]
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