Work: April 2008 Archives

I've been writing a lot about things not techy enough to have that balance between what I do most of the time and what I want to do most of the time. I often find it challenging to pass my third-rate programming skills to this blog and come up with things the search engines love.

For instance, the posts which I made regarding my OBJ Loader and other similar posts, I am able to get a lot of hits on them. People search for these things and they come over and find something useful. I, on the other hand prefer writing my own stuff which has far less significance to anyone else (if at all).

I've been in the middle of some really useful drafts that are related to software development. I'm thinking of thinking about coming up with more of such tech-filled curry so that my friends (or anyone) coming in from Google or other search engines are able to find what they're looking for.

After all, it feels so much better to help somebody than to type all the non-sense you have to fill your blog up. Plus, I'm so kinda occupied in other things that I usually want to spend most of my time in useful things. I personally think that I read blogs of other people more for availing something valuable than their personal "rants". Anyways, that's just a way to feel better for everybody, it depends on personal taste of what makes them feel better.

Except for one thing: Youtube is not opening up :( and I am tired of watching all those previously downloaded videos. I'm not sure what's happening.

Other than that, I am having so much fun these days! We had an ammmazing story back in the old pavillion! Awrite, I'm into code words here so I better shut up :)

Its so much like as if the whole world is going through a while loop and I am an argument to some interesting function being called in that loop!

Internet TV is a cool thing. I am almost sure about the fact that one day, the TV sets at our homes will be useless as on demand iTV (yepp) will overtake the usual format for the current style the TV works. The computers will become much more convenient that housewives will begin to watch their favorite soaps on demand and that means no late chaye and dinner for ghar walas! :) Or daddy will be ready all the time to take the kids to the park as his favorite sports show can always be played back again later! If you're confused about what the heck I'm talking about, don't be, these ideas are based on something I am in touch with these days :P

Anyways, please please pray for my YouTube to be back soon!

Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library is really a wonderful package to have. It's free and amazingly useful and powerful. Today was one of those days when I was stuck at something, some spooky little thing that just wasn't coming up right. Here comes YUI, I scanned through the wonderful YUI developers site and found the right component for my use.

Yahoo has some excellent people working for it and tools like YUI are, well no surprise given the amount of talent this company has inside.

Thanks Yahoo, your awesome library made me happy today :)

It was another usual day for me. BTW I've quit my job.. now I've decided to work on my own.. still working on creating my brand image. I don't find much time for that actually, I have a few other preferences, but some day I will ;) I have Ali Raza Shaikh's advice constantly running through my head which he gave me when I visited Nuvica's lush pash office in Business Avenue: show yourself as a company rather than an individual; try taking part in events such as SI, etc, etc. But I'm such a naughty boy, or a lazy boy, I only do things when I feel like doing them =|

Munir was able to convince me that human beings can "wish", "hope" and "pray" but not "do" or "decide" -- these two things are in God's hand... nice discussion that was too! Perhaps I already knew that, but it was in some nested folders within my head's drive! Munir helped it move to the Desktop!

I went to see the Indian movie RACE today at Nishat Cinema with friends. It looked like an ordinary movie in the beginning but it turned out to be a really interesting one at the end, and I kinda enjoyed it! Now that Pakistani govt. has allowed the Indian movies to run in Pakistani cinemas, I think it's going to be much more frequent for me to see one of better looking Indian movies too.

Pakistani movie KKL (Khuda Ke Liye) by the one and only ShoMan (Shoaib Mansoor) is going to be released in India on April 4th, 2008. Not sure how the Indian audience would receive it, time will tell though. All the best to ShoMan sahab.

Taare Zameen Per is coming soon in Pakistani Cinemas so I am surely going to go to Nishat for that as well!

Cheerz,
Kami