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Wrote my own theme
I couldn’t deal with any of the existing themes available for wordpress. Just had to write my own. Every now and then the geek in me just goes ballistic. While the nation is going into elections tomorrow, even though I still can’t understand why, I figured I’ll work on tweaking wordpress. This theme is not near as professional as most available out there, but I hope to keep tweaking it till it looks decent.
Any comments and suggestions would be highly appreciated. Please add them as comments under this post. Thanks…
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Online Applications Continued
Yet another reason to use online applications. In July 2006 the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Officers were given the authority to go through your laptops, and other digital media, just as they could go through books, etc. in your luggage. They don’t have to give any reasons for conducting such a search, nor do they need to tell you what all they’re downloading from your media. Our friends at downloadsquad have been nice enough to do a little write-up to help avoid any breech of privacy in such an incidence.
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Bubbles
I’m so in love with online applications. Gmail, Flickr, Picnik, Facebook, etc. etc. But I also hate having them inside tabs in internet browsers like Firefox or Internet Explorer. Bubbles takes care of that, and let’s you run web applications (and even web sites) from within their own application “bubbles”. I’ve just installed the application, and am beginning to like it more with every passing minute. Recommended.
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Photo Editing Continued
I had written about online photo editors a few days ago. The newest entrant in this category is FotoFlexer. It’s not near as capable or sexy as Picnik, but still worth a try, if you’re looking for something simple and yet efficient.
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Some mornings it is just weird…
Some mornings it is just weird how sleepy one can be. Today is one such morning. Oh what a struggle
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Funny advert
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If
Heard this song after a long time.
If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can’t I paint you?
The words will never show the you I’ve come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There’s no one home but you,
You’re all that’s left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.
If a man could be two places at one time,
I’d be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I’d spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away
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Why I do it - Part 3
Jawwad Farid’s review of the Startup Initiative.
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Wondering what part of wake up…
Wondering what part of wake up his body doesn’t understand
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Ironic
As a principle I stay away from all matters that could embarass my nation or my people. I try to put on a happy face for the world, while my heart bleeds for my people. This morning, on my drive back from Dawn, I saw this little girl struggling with a wheelbarrow which was too heavy for her to even keep up.
I pulled over and took the following pictures as she walked past me with great effort. In one of the pictures, a political party’s election campaign banner is visible as the child walks past it. The banner is of course promising unconditional paradise. For a moment I felt like cursing the nation, as my heart bled for the little girl. But then I conveniently drove away, with a heavy heart feeling sorry for the child, in my shiny car. Just like thousands of cars that probably drove by her, and do every morning, I too just drove away.
What an animal I am. Even animals would probably feel sorry and do something about what they understand. I understood what I saw, but simply drove away, thinking “what can I do”. I want to admit here on my blog, that I’m a miserable, wretched, unforgivable Pakistani, who may take a moment to bring the plight of my people to the world’s attention, but I did not stop for a moment to maybe help the child.
We keep complaining about the governments, but what did I do myself? What did I do to help a human being in pain… a little child?
The elite are busy talking about human right violations of politicians, and demands of democracy. I just spent one hour listening to Mr. Shahbaz Sharif’s interview on Geo TV where he reminded the world of great work down by him and his brother during their past regimes. Then I saw clips of late Benazir Bhutto, talking of “Food, Clothing, and Housing” for the poor. The same slogan her late father was screaming in the 1970’s. That was followed by Ch. Pervaiz Elahi’s election advertisement talking of how he has educated Punjab, and how under his rule every Pakistani is now living a better life.
And then I see these pictures I saw yesterday, and I want to commit Seppuku, for I have committed serious and heinous crimes against humanity, against the people of my nation.
I’m reminded of a picture of the Prime Minister apologizing to a group of victims who contracted Hepatitis-C at his office. His bowed head. His shame.
And then I think of our leaders - past, present, and future; and I think of the attrocities committed by the them in the name of democracy, politics, and national interest. I wonder when even one of our leaders will stand in front of the nation, as does the Japanese prime minister, asking for forgiveness for crimes much much bigger and graver than those of the honorable Yasuo Fukuda. “I believe you have all suffered, mind and soul, for many years and have had feelings that can’t be expressed into words, I take this opportunity to apologise from my heart,” is what the Prime Minister said to the suffering patiehts, while he bowed humbly in front of them while international media watched.
The first Pakistani leader to accept his crimes against humanity, and to ask for this little girl’s forgiveness, will be the one I will follow and support.
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