Sep 22nd, 2008 | Life | 8 Comments
If you cut your cyber-teeth on MySpace and Facebook, you probably won’t recognize the face of Khaled Mardam-Bay. For millions (yes, millions) of us, though, he is the Zuckerberg of the 20th century (that’s where the IRC generation comes from), and IRC is where we took our first cyber-steps. You may want to hit Google and do some digital archeology to find out about IRC in general and mIRC in particular. Meanwhile, I just want to list down all the things that IRC meant to us, the generation that was exhilarated when we upgraded from a Hercules to a CGA monitor. So join me as I reminisce about life online in the last decade… after the nag screen. → continue reading
Sep 2nd, 2008 | Pakistan | No Comments
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’t be entirely accurate (but close enough), so please don’t blame me on judgement day if anything goes wrong 
Do add me up on twitter too, I’m ReallyVirtual there.
UPDATE: I’m a bit too busy to enter data for other cities like Karachi, Islamabad etc. but if anyone wants to help out (it should take a few minutes of your time), do get in touch and I will share the login details and steps to take.
Sep 2nd, 2007 | Pakistan | 2 Comments
Twitter added a search feature recently. In the spirit of micro-blogging, here are a few quick and interesting twitter search results:
Lahore: 15 results, Karachi: 35 results, San Francisco: 2038 results, Bangalore: 194 results
Translated into Twitterers (or Tweeters or whatever) per 1000 citizens (using Wikipedia), its:
Lahore AND Karachi (both have approximately the same ratio): 1 out of 0.57 MILLION tweeters, San Francisco: 1 out of 396 tweeters, Bangalore: 1 out of 27216 tweeters.
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May 10th, 2007 | Etc | No Comments
is http://twitter.com/reallyvirtual. First one to add me gets the letter ‘Y’ and the number ‘7′.
