Posted on July 3, 2010, 8:26 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Life,
Pakistan.
Most of us Pakistani IT professionals spend our lives shielded from the ‘system’. Yes, we sometimes come out of our shells and protest against whatever we believe we have to demonstrate against – and yes, we do write blog posts and opine and criticize and debate, and sometimes attend the feel-good TEDx talks to ‘spread [...]
Posted on April 13, 2010, 10:19 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Life,
Pakistan.
It has been a while since I have posted here – but only because the dozen post drafts lying on my desktop have been fighting for attention at the same time – and have created a deadlock.
A lot needs to be said, but before I resume writing, here are 17000 words (in picture format) taken [...]
Posted on December 21, 2009, 12:24 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Death,
Pakistan.
A couple of years ago, I came across this interesting paper titled “Defining Terrorism: Philosophy of the Bomb, Propaganda by Deed and Change Through Fear and Violence“. In those days, Afghanistan and Iraq were still the countries with the most terrorist attacks and casualties, and we had not yet reached the current weekly terrorist attack [...]
Posted on December 17, 2009, 5:37 PM, by ReallyVirtual, under
IT,
Pakistan.
An improvement over the Wimax Cantenna I shared in my last post, this configuration has taken the signal strength to new heights – ie. from the 40-60% of v1 to a consistent 80%!
The principal is the same as version 1: take a 330ml can, cut it into half (but laterally this time). Chop off both [...]
Posted on December 15, 2009, 1:01 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Life,
Pakistan.
Taken in the same room, these two images, together, define a large segment of the Pakistani populace like no blog post can.
Cheers.