I have 3 Wows to give out today. WhyNot.net: I was Googling to see if anyone else was curious about using active noise-cancelling techniques for turning down the volume (in some sense) on babies. There are serious technical challenges (such as that current noise-cancelling devices target a point sink), but it’s a cool idea and even [...]
Author Archive for Uzair
Wow Day
03Aug08Whoa.
16Jul08Check this out. I need more time to process it (and read up on most of them)…but whoa. And there’s our man Aitzaz Ahsan at #5! (Obligatory disclaimer: I don’t trust Aitzaz Ahsan for a minute.)
Thoughts on Kobe
05Jul08A certain someone isn’t going to stop badgering me until I say something about the Lakers’ recent loss in the NBA finals, so here goes. I’ve been defending Kobe more or less since 2000 now. I’ve never been a full-on fanboy, but in a sport populated by egotistical megalomaniacs, I admired his rabid desire to win, [...]
Protected: Staying Awake
12Jun08There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Growing Up
10Jun08Confirmation that maturity is a journey, not a destination. Or something. AE: Dude, big changes. Me: ? AE: You remember I said I have this paralysing fear of whether I was good enough? Like fretting at work about people thinking I’m no good, etc.? Me: Yes, distinctly :) AE: Well, it’s gone. Me: Wow. That’s huge, man…you should be proud of [...]
I don’t like sports writers. I don’t like the contrived soundbites they convey, the cliched storylines they create, the false drama they so carefully cultivate. I don’t like the fact that most of them have no real qualifications, but a few years on the circuit gives them the title of ‘expert’ and, for example, allows [...]
Shikwa
24Mar08Watch this: And the second part: It’s quite remarkable. A tangent to my own confusion and complaints, but fascinating and insightful nevertheless. My favourite couplet is this, the fulcrum of the poem: Even then you grumble, we are false, untrue, If you call us faithless, tell us what are you? From a historical point of view, it’s probably amazing that [...]
Honestly, I’ve had it up to here with the nincompoop-edness of LSE administrative folks. I’ve been waiting for my degree certificate since my December 18 graduation ceremony (which I didn’t attend). I assumed that graduates would have been handed their certificates there but it turned out that wasn’t the case, so I waited a couple [...]
The KSE bounces back
03Jan08…wow, what a surprise. So I guess we all really are as fickle and callous as I suggested in my last post. The good news from the article is: Pakistani stocks are cheap and still worth holding in spite of political uncertainty, Merrill Lynch & Co.’s chief Asian strategist Mark Matthews said in an interview yesterday. … The [...]
The Bhutto saga continues
01Jan08…and now the backlash has begun. DM sent me this really interesting article called ‘The Prodigal Daughter’ (capitalisation mine, because apparently newspapers can’t afford the extra ink). Written by an Oxford contemporary, Vir Sanghvi, the first half is a really fascinating summary of Ms. Bhutto’s personality and her activities at Oxford. The PPP media machine has [...]
I’ve been working with Excel a lot these past few months. At least half my time these days is spent writing and running spreadsheets and interpreting the results I get from them. In many cases, I run a lengthy batch of calculations overnight and then have Excel produce a pivot table and save the results [...]
Out of sight, out of mind
23Nov07A couple of weeks ago, Newsweek’s cover proclaimed that Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world. It was only mildly disturbing, since constant immersion in hostile media does tend to numb one’s senses. I came across this wonderful article a few days ago. Every once in a while, an article comes by that scrapes [...]
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