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	<description>Procrastinating Polluting Programming Pakistani Pirate Parent</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>World Usability Day 2008 - Lahore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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At the occasion of the World Usability Day, the Interaction Design Center has organized an event at the UMT Campus on Thursday, November 13th. The event will consist of a series of talks, case studies, and a documentary screening. Every year the event has a theme and this year&#8217;s theme is transportation.
Three reasons you should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope is a Pain-Killer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Osama of GreenWhite.org tagged me on FaceBook to describe a metaphor that I would use for &#8216;hope&#8217;. I would have shied away from such an invitation, but since Osama&#8217;s objective is to &#8220;get people talking&#8221; (and hopefully, thinking and doing as a consequence), so I&#8217;ll bite and dump my thoughts on &#8216;hope&#8217; here, but first, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hi, I am Sohaib</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reallyvirtual.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I should have asked this question many months ago, but better late than never.
Who are you? Why do you come here? Do you subscribe to the RSS feed, or does Google bring you here against your will? Do I know you from the offline world? Do we have something in common?
I have intentionally disabled comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bomb Blast in Lahore Targets Jews and Barbarians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, some terrorists succeeded in planting three time-bombs in the Garhi Shahu area in Lahore, an area that is 4-5 kilometers away from my house. Thankfully, nobody had died until the last update.
I  had to turn on the idiot box (after many months) to catch the live report, and was lucky enough to witness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Turning Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reallyvirtual.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This song came up on my playlist just as I published the previous post, so I had to share it.
Consider spending six minutes of your life listening to Pink Floyd.
I tried looking for a &#8216;moderate&#8217; flavored documentary, but couldn&#8217;t find any good video that didn&#8217;t mention the US of A.
Warning: it contains some very shocking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Sombre Eid Everyone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reallyvirtual.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Aren&#8217;t you tired of the monotonous &#8220;Happy&#8221; and &#8220;Mubarik&#8221; Eids year after year? Why not try something different, like a &#8220;Sombre&#8221; Eid, for a change?
Don&#8217;t hand a 1000 rupee note to every one of your ten nephews. They already have plenty and will blow the money up in a day. Give them each a 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Search the Darndest Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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Each blog has its own micro-zeitgeist (that&#8217;s a word that I just made up, or neologized) that gives an insight into its place in the larger scheme of things, and this one is no different. Like most of the human race, I like to look at my Google Analytics data every now and then, perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Says No &#8216;Doodle For You!&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It started with the perceptive ProPakistani people noticing how Google has never had an Islam themed doodle on their homepage, and Dr. Awab picked up the discussion the next day.
I personally think that Google not showing any Doodles for Islamic events has something to do with their &#8220;Do No Evil&#8221; policy   Seriously though, while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N Things I Miss About IRC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you cut your cyber-teeth on MySpace and Facebook, you probably won&#8217;t recognize the face of Khaled Mardam-Bay. For millions (yes, millions) of us, though, he is the Zuckerberg of the 20th century (that&#8217;s where the IRC generation comes from), and IRC is where we took our first cyber-steps. You may want to hit Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Pakistanis are People of the Mongol Horde</title>
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		<comments>http://www.reallyvirtual.com/pakistan-urdu-mongolian-horde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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I just watched the movie &#8216;Mongol&#8216; which is based on the early life of Genghis Khan, or Temujjin. The movie was shot in the Mongolian language, so I was surprised to spot many words that sounded like their counterparts in Urdu. I always thought the word &#8216;Urdu&#8217; was from Turkish, but after a bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bajour, Bajor, What&#8217;s the Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ReallyVirtual</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a trekkie-in-denial who watched the whole Deep Space Nine this year and who is also a citizen of Pakistan, I can&#8217;t help being reminded the Bajor of DS9 each time somebody is killed in the Bajour of Pakistan. Those of you who have seen the series (and know about the Bajourian incidents) will know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Ramadan</title>
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		<comments>http://www.reallyvirtual.com/celebrating-ramadan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reallyvirtual.com/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have invented this thing that I call &#8220;Roza-rolling&#8221; in the spirit of &#8216;rick-rolling&#8217;. It involves a Google image search on queries like &#8220;chicken roast&#8221; or &#8220;bbq meat&#8221;, wrapping a tinyurl around it, and throwing it towards my fellow Pakistani &#8216;Rozadaars&#8217; on Twitter - during fasting hours. Thankfully, they don&#8217;t mind (I hope) due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My new found respect for Zardari</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reallyvirtual.com/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I would waste ten thirty minutes of my life praising our new president, but I just have to write this one. This post on Karachi Metblogs is criticizing Zardari&#8217;s comments in the visitors&#8217; log of Jinnah&#8217;s tomb on his death anniversary. Though I secretly hope for a day when discussing the Pakistani [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lahore Metblogs First Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reallyvirtual.com/?p=199</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had almost forgotten that I was added as an author on Lahore Metblogs, but today&#8217;s three hour long electric shortage cured my whats-the-word-for-memory-loss amnesia and finally provided the motivation that I needed to write my first post on LMB. Here is the link.


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		<title>Pakistan Iftar Timing Alerts via Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sohaib Athar</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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, it won&#8217;t be entirely accurate (but close enough), so please don&#8217;t blame me [...]]]></description>
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