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 October 8, 2008, 10:07 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
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 […]
Posted on October 1, 2008, 6:56 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Life.
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 ‘moderate’ flavored documentary, but couldn’t find any good video that didn’t mention the US of A. Warning: it contains […]
Posted on April 20, 2008, 7:53 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
When my son Harris was three, he used to go to sleep while listening to Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Alanis Morissette, so it is ironic that I found this video when I was searching for kids songs for him on youtube: and while we are listening to songs, here’s some good advice that you may […]
Posted on March 19, 2008, 10:39 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Books,
Death,
Scifi.
Yesterday, I started reading 'Time's Eye' – the first book of the 'A Time Odyssey' series written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. I went to sleep after reading 22 Chapters, woke up, checked my emails and RSS feeds, and found out that Arthur C. Clarke passed away some time today at his home […]