Sometime back OU Pakistan Society hosted famous poet Professor Anwar Masood. Browsing their website today (http://www.oupaksoc.org/) I found a link to the video of the event: Poet Anwar Masood at Oxford, 2011 Other videos of events can be found at their website as well. I was actually looking for George Fulton’s talk, which I am … Read more
Amazon.co.uk Widgets The ARDUINO UNO is an amazing product that incorporates an ATmega328P onto a development board with a USB Bootloader. The product offers the user the ability to program in C language, and with a lot of libraries and open source software available, most applications are very easily achieved. However, the challenge that faced … Read more
Doctor Who Infographic, originally uploaded by bob canada. This is one not to be missed… For any and every Doctor Who fan out there!
So I have been taking these acting workshops recently, and while it is mostly for fun and nothing serious, good things really do come out of it every now and then. Yesterday, during a ‘random discussion/conversation’ practice, one of the boys came out with an idea for a Shaving Pill. It is ever so simple, … Read more
I shall be giving a presentation at Science Oxford on the 3rd of February, 2011, on their PechaKucha night. http://www.scienceoxfordlive.com/whats-on-events/pechakucha-night The words PechaKucha stand for ‘chit-chat’ in Japanese, and it shall be a platform for various people of scientific backgrounds to come forward and present. As written on the website: Devised in Tokyo in February … Read more
I write about this because this was something I was looking for, and found that the internet did not have many answers. Having just bought a new phone, I found it a bit weird that I could not use internet from my PC on the device when connected via USB. It is an Android system, … Read more
I get a new phone in two weeks. I have a lot of friends who use the iPhone, and love it, and will die for it. While it is all good, so far, the Samsung Galaxy S is winning in my head. I am trying to find people to convince me otherwise. Will you sell … Read more
I say simplified. It may not be the case for every one. But I have just attended a lecture by Dr Tony Lewis or the Duckworth/Lewis Method, and through his graphs and curves, he has attempted to explain why, what, and how of the method seems to confuse players, commentators, and spectators alike. He begins … Read more
An article I wrote for http://corneredtigers.co.uk/. Can be found at http://corneredtigers.co.uk/pakistan-cricket-%E2%80%93-an-addiction/ Goose bumps. It gives goose bumps. Call me an idiot. A hopeless romantic! A fool! But it gives me goose bumps. Like many Pakistanis who were born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s, I grew up with cricket in my blood. … Read more
For this very title, I might just get a lot of attention. On the other hand, I might get clobbered by loads of Star Wars fans, telling me that I am absolutely wrong. Or as usual, most people will just ignore what I have written. But yeah, a few weeks back, I was watching Episode … Read more