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.
Posted on December 14, 2009, 12:07 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
IT,
Pakistan.
A fixed line PTCL DSL is not a viable option for me in Abbottabad, so as luck would have it, I ended up owning not one, but two Wateen Wimax connections after moving to Abbottabad from Lahore – I believe this irony has something to do with god deciding to punish me for my sins [...]
Posted on August 26, 2009, 7:55 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
UPDATE: For iftar timings for Lahore in 2009, you can follow iftartime on twitter.
If you use twitter, you can follow iftar2008pak to get iftar (and later on, sehri) alerts for Lahore (and later on, other cities).
Right now, iftar2008pak will send out a tweet 15 minutes and zero minutes before iftar – due to various lags, [...]