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, [...]
Posted on December 29, 2008, 7:41 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
A guru blogger once shared the following piece of wisdom with me:
Posts with lists are more ’successful’.
Here is a list of reasons why I think GreenWhite is a successful blog. I have to write this post as a lot of people have approached me this week and asked what GreenWhite.org ( GnW) is [...]
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IT,
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success,
twitter,
Web,
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Posted on December 20, 2008, 5:03 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
I can’t say that I’m disappointed with Wateen, as I don’t really care at all about that brand or whatever they sell, be it bandwidth, cell connection or water-balloons. I do have a serious problem though, when there is an intrusive attempt by corporations to use my belongings (this blog being one) or my surrounding [...]
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spampaign,
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Posted on September 22, 2008, 3:24 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Life.
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 [...]
Posted on September 2, 2007, 1:12 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
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 [...]