Technology: March 2008 Archives

FAST-NU Karachi is organizing a mega event for the emerging new media artists who are studying in the various universities of Pakistan. The name of the event is DigitalEyez and it's one of those competitions which caught my eye straight away: I am somebody who can design web pages so I think I do have a bit of chance :)

The competition is not just for the web designers out there. It's also offering photography and short film/animation challenges for those who are skilled at these mediums.

The official web site for DigitalEyez is www.digitaleyez.pk where you can find each and every bit of information you might need to have, including links to register yourself in any of the competitions there.

A neat thing that I noticed was that the competition was FREE for all i.e. no entry fee was mentioned anywhere at all afaik on their web site.

There are a few more competitions which are part of this event (such as a quiz competition) which are definitely going to help make the event more interesting.

I've registered on their web site and I sincerely wish this competition gathers huge success as this is the first of its kind competition at the university level in Pakistan.

Monkeys can't be serious, I know. But I need them. I need a few really cool web monkeys who can work primarily with:

- HTML/XHTML

- CSS

- JavaScript

- PHP

- MySQL

So if you're one of those who are lucky enough to know any or all of above in the list, you can contact me. The amount of projects you'll be getting depends upon how high you can jump (that basically means how skilled and experienced you are) and how many projects do I have at any given time.

I cannot promise work coming in all the time, so this is only supposed to be a freelance deal. Ideally for those professionals who are already working at some boring place and want to do some exciting work when they get back home. Students who feel they're smart enough to know what usability and security is are encouraged to get in touch as well.

If you're a reader who knows some cheetahs, uh sorry, some monkeys who're serious when it comes to quality driven web work, do let them know.

P.S. This offer is for people living in Pakistan only.

P.P.S. 'Serious' means 'serious' - I'm serious! So, no bacha party please.

UT posted a really cool link on his blog, and I thought it was so cool that I decided to steal it for my blog :)

You can find the article here: http://www.hrworld.com/features/101-reasons-to-freelance-091007/ 

The article highlights some nice points. Freelancers will already be familiar with most of them though but definitely some food for thought for those nine-to-five'ers! ;)

I had a loooong chat with Munir, a travelling geek from some (almost) boys only university :P

We "discussed" about the situations when we have the option to select either of the two: emotions or logic. Look at the way I enclosed the word 'dicussed' in quotation marks; that means it was an interesting discussion ;P

I was in for logic and Munir was in favour of emotions. We kept putting up examples in favour of our beloved items and we ended up without agreeing to each other.

In between we discussed about why we should not work at Axact and how to go about toont toont tooooooont! :P when we're upset.

It was a nice gup shup, he gave me a nice couple of things to help me unfold the thing called life. We talked about Apple Mecca and how some people interpret the same things differently.

I am still in favour of not favouring the emotions :) but the rest of you might have different ideas!

Alright, we just had a lot of fun this evening with Zaheer (our really cool CEO), Joe and Chris (Zaheer's partners). We went to Bar-B-Q Tonite (again) and had great food!

In that time we talked about a lot of things about the company (Centric Source), about movies and about each other :)

Chris had so much fun with the guys, he is really interested in getting better all the time. He is workin hard to get things in a much better shape than they are at the moment. As you know, you always have something to improve upon.

Zaheer, Joe and Chris, thanks so much on behalf of my team! we had a great time with you guys!

Plus, I also won a discount coupon of Rs.1000 outside the BBQ Tonite from the United Mobile promotions people who were standing outside of the resturant. Now I can get the Nokia 6120 Classic for Rs.1000 less than the market price! wohoo!

I purchased a hosting account for my blog some time back (that was when I started this site). I purchased quite a big account as I had some good amount of money back then :P

It has 600 GB of storage along with unlimited domain hosting and 50 MySQL databases along with so many other goodies. I realized that perhaps I made the wrong choice for a simple site such as a blog, atleast I would not be needing to spend money to get me 600 GB!

I was wrong, since I bought that account, I am sort of into hosting and domain business now :D

Usually people around keep coming with questions like 'man where can I find a cheap host and a domain name service' or 'k bhai please buy a domain and hosting account for my company' and so on. I didn't have those people in my mind when I paid for my hosting account, but now I realize that I am really lucky to have people around me asking such questions, as I have a better answer for them this time :)

Now I have hosted a large list of domain names and provided hosting services for a good number of people on my current hosting account, and the profit has already crossed my initial expenses when I bought that domain and hosting for my sweet little blog.

So essentially I am hosting this site for free! :P or perhaps I should say I have earned it lol!