Finally I got a JavaScript engine up and running for the Earthquake Memorial blog that Basim, Abdul and I are running (http://teneight.blogspot.com/ )
I posted some of the stuff on it and hopefully it’ll have more entries coming in. I’ll ask others to contribute as well. A lot of people have valuable experiences that they would like to share. This can also be used for news alerts and donations as well. That blog is still in its infancy.
It just needs some of Basim’s miracle makeovers. Anyways people see you around. Hope you really enjoyed all that meat. :P
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Blogger for Word Test
Okay this is the first test post from the blogger word plug in. The interface is not an easy and it is not a hard jee. Its dodgy.
Eid Mubarak to all of you whom I haven’t wished so far.
And to keep you folks amused, here is the test run of Blogger for Word.
Color Test
Size Test
Bold
Underline
Fonts of various shapes and sizes
(image placeholder)(image placeholder)( Picture Posting
Okay lets see this baby go and look at what it yields on blogger.
Eid Mubarak to all of you whom I haven’t wished so far.
And to keep you folks amused, here is the test run of Blogger for Word.
Color Test
Size Test
Bold
Underline
Fonts of various shapes and sizes
(image placeholder)(image placeholder)( Picture Posting
- 1 Bullet Test
- 2
- d
- f
- 3
Okay lets see this baby go and look at what it yields on blogger.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Havent I been busy lately
A lot has happened since my last blog, I've been to GIKI and returned, I bought read a novel by Stephen King titled, "The Gunslinger". I got SOP's made, wrote autobiographical statements, and applied to KTH. I registered for TOEFL which is due on the same day next week. All of that is old stuff.
While going through the racks of the old book shop and in pursuit of the perfect read, I came across a couple(okay lots) of exciting books. The entire list is too extensive so I'll just present what I filtered out. I got my selection down to two books. The first one was a book titled Ghosts & North Country Legends which is all about Spectres, ghosts, grey ladies, hell-hounds, witches, hob-goblins and the like. The good thing is that it also has pictures of haunted sites from Northern England. It was a gut feeling that compelled me to go for the book. So I took out a rather huge sum of Rs. 170 after bargaining with the shopkeeper. The original price was around Rs. 200. My budget at the time was to be limited within my Rs. 250 bimonthly leisure reading budget. I feel that it is an investment well made because such informative books really look good on shelves. And a message to all my GIKIAN book worm friends, "This book is exclusively for me. I will not lend it to anyone. Yes that means you!!!". The other one was a Readers Digest Word Power book. I figured that I already did registered for Toefl and what better way to prepare for Toefl while doing nothing more than having fun reading excerpts from Readers Digest. I've begun to love reading books. I'm averaging 2 books every 3 months. I feel that if this keeps going on, I'll have a huge library in no time.
Apart from that, projects that are on hold include, a flash video based on a song by Jimi Hendrix titled Purple Haze(Just made 5 secs so far). A flash movie idea I developed with Babarman a couple of days back at GIKI which starts at the destruction of the human race and goes back to how it happens. If I'm able to pull this up, you'll see a lot of cool visuals and effects. I would require a lot of help from Mr B though. Need to also make that automated stats system for ugX when I get back to GIK. These couple of weeks have been hectic and more is to come. I feel that my FYP is getting neglected amidst a whole range of events and activities.
Oh and another event of great importance. Hashim got me a birthday present. One that will help me stay fit and get my mind off stuff. He got me my very own skipping rope. :D I feel like murdering the person who took my previous rope to Karachi and left it there. :( Anyways back to the new rope. With a new rope comes a new set of challenges. Stair climbing is in my opinion an area of Skipping that has been neglected. None of the people(mostly little girls) have ever tried ascending or descending stairs while skipping. An art that I'm perfecting. right now I can climb 3 stairs with lots of concentration. I hope I get better at it. I have to be able to make it all the way up maybe 20 stairs before I graduate. Thats my personal aim. Hashim thinks I'll kill myself one of these days, but hey we are all a little bit whacked up inside.
For my Next birthday I need this skipping rope.
Basim thought I was parting with the blogosphere(an entity with which I am now fully melded) when I wrote on my last blog the following line, "Before terminating this post ...". This time I'll try to keep it more clear by saying that before I'm finished writing, I'd like to wish you all "Eid Mubarak", coupled with a "Happy New Year". I hope this year brings you guys joy, happiness, rekindled motivation, respect, and all the other good things there are out there.
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While going through the racks of the old book shop and in pursuit of the perfect read, I came across a couple(okay lots) of exciting books. The entire list is too extensive so I'll just present what I filtered out. I got my selection down to two books. The first one was a book titled Ghosts & North Country Legends which is all about Spectres, ghosts, grey ladies, hell-hounds, witches, hob-goblins and the like. The good thing is that it also has pictures of haunted sites from Northern England. It was a gut feeling that compelled me to go for the book. So I took out a rather huge sum of Rs. 170 after bargaining with the shopkeeper. The original price was around Rs. 200. My budget at the time was to be limited within my Rs. 250 bimonthly leisure reading budget. I feel that it is an investment well made because such informative books really look good on shelves. And a message to all my GIKIAN book worm friends, "This book is exclusively for me. I will not lend it to anyone. Yes that means you!!!". The other one was a Readers Digest Word Power book. I figured that I already did registered for Toefl and what better way to prepare for Toefl while doing nothing more than having fun reading excerpts from Readers Digest. I've begun to love reading books. I'm averaging 2 books every 3 months. I feel that if this keeps going on, I'll have a huge library in no time.
Apart from that, projects that are on hold include, a flash video based on a song by Jimi Hendrix titled Purple Haze(Just made 5 secs so far). A flash movie idea I developed with Babarman a couple of days back at GIKI which starts at the destruction of the human race and goes back to how it happens. If I'm able to pull this up, you'll see a lot of cool visuals and effects. I would require a lot of help from Mr B though. Need to also make that automated stats system for ugX when I get back to GIK. These couple of weeks have been hectic and more is to come. I feel that my FYP is getting neglected amidst a whole range of events and activities.
Oh and another event of great importance. Hashim got me a birthday present. One that will help me stay fit and get my mind off stuff. He got me my very own skipping rope. :D I feel like murdering the person who took my previous rope to Karachi and left it there. :( Anyways back to the new rope. With a new rope comes a new set of challenges. Stair climbing is in my opinion an area of Skipping that has been neglected. None of the people(mostly little girls) have ever tried ascending or descending stairs while skipping. An art that I'm perfecting. right now I can climb 3 stairs with lots of concentration. I hope I get better at it. I have to be able to make it all the way up maybe 20 stairs before I graduate. Thats my personal aim. Hashim thinks I'll kill myself one of these days, but hey we are all a little bit whacked up inside.
For my Next birthday I need this skipping rope.
Basim thought I was parting with the blogosphere(an entity with which I am now fully melded) when I wrote on my last blog the following line, "Before terminating this post ...". This time I'll try to keep it more clear by saying that before I'm finished writing, I'd like to wish you all "Eid Mubarak", coupled with a "Happy New Year". I hope this year brings you guys joy, happiness, rekindled motivation, respect, and all the other good things there are out there.
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Sunday, January 01, 2006
New Year Already!!!!!
When I was a kid, time was so slow. It hardly ever passed. I used to wish that time would pass faster when I was in class. Often I used to doodle or use my notebook as a counter and write the number of seconds left for class to end and write all the numbers backwards.
e.g. 15 mins remain.
15 x 60 = 900
Then I'd start counting backwards,
900,899,898 ... Meanwhile a peculiar old rhyme always used to play incessantly in my head.
900 bottles of beer on the wall
900 bottles of beer you take one down an pass it around
899 bottles of beer on the wall
Quite honestly it still does. Havent found a cure for it yet. But with my head twirling through the ages another year has passed. And I wish you all a Happy New Year. I cant beleive its 2006 already. I kind of adopted this sort of jetlag after I joined University, All of the previous year I went about thinking that it was 2004. At least my subconscious. I even started putting it on exam papers. But now that I'm getting more and more aware of it, I ask someone what year it is before putting it down somewhere. So what makes my subconsious retract to the good old years. 1998-2002 to be specific. Well I guess I was a much secure individual back then. I had prospects. I had a perfect routine. I had it all planned. Well not quite actually. I seriously considered pursuing higher education in Math back then(Inspired by the one and only guru Sir Minhas himself). Right now I want nothing to do at all with Maths. I want to be a novelist(even though the closest I am to writing is this blog), an artist(even though my greatest works are comics, a couple of lame attempts at recording my own[and Basim's] lyrics [Hamziee I miss you so much :_(], some stupid videos, ideas, flashwork, photoshop work that I consider art and thats about it), someone that just goes around dispersing novell ideas, and apart from all of the above, a jack in all trades or a master in a trade that requires me to be a jack in all trades. Doing a task or a job or studying anything in depth makes me yawn. I know this wasnt me a couple of years back, but times change [... or was it people that change].
Now that I've finished this babbling about the garble[I'm using this word for someone special] thats accumulating in my mind, I'd like to point out a site that will be of aid to a lot of bloggers out there, who tired of photobucket would want to add streaming video to their blogs. Yes my friends it is here. Youtube is a service which lets you upload videos with tag words, and you can throw some code in blogger while writing a post, that imbeds a player onto your post. This is actually quite cool. The YouTube site offers a lot of videos. Its a searchable interface and the quality of the stream although not being that great, is more convinient because it loads up in around 5 mins on my internet connection at home. This site is, I repeat is of no use to me or any other GIKIAN blogger as the net there is too slow. However when I return home for Eid(in a weeks time), I might post some videos around here and there. Coverage is always an issue.
Before I terminate my blog I would like to list my new years resolutions:-
Anyways this post almost never wants to end I guess. I keep getting small chores, like burning shaadi CD's, vacuum cleaning, etc. I even went out to get Jalebi in the process. I love a drizzle especially in the winters. Its such a beautiful season. More than that I like playing sports when its drizzling. However I cant stand heavy rain. It makes my head ache.
Oh this is an advertisement I just came across, quite amusing actually:-
I mean thats true. They have a Western Union Money Transfer at the post office at Topi[land of my institute]. How remote is that.
Oh and a note about how I got into the New Year yesterday night. I was watching lost. I had 5 episodes queued and the third one was running when the clock struck 12. People started lighting firecrackers, I could hear it all. But I chose to stay in my warm blankets and watch Lost. I slept shortly afterwards. That was a really swell way to enter the year 2005 or is it 2006. Yep 2006 it is.
I'd like to thank the folks at Google once again for autosaving drafts. If it werent for them, this post would be lost in the frequent power outages(3 short ones to be honest) that were faced today.
Now I need to get ready for a Reunion Party where I hope to meet some of my old friends from School which was well quite a while back. Man how time flies.
e.g. 15 mins remain.
15 x 60 = 900
Then I'd start counting backwards,
900,899,898 ... Meanwhile a peculiar old rhyme always used to play incessantly in my head.
900 bottles of beer on the wall
900 bottles of beer you take one down an pass it around
899 bottles of beer on the wall
Quite honestly it still does. Havent found a cure for it yet. But with my head twirling through the ages another year has passed. And I wish you all a Happy New Year. I cant beleive its 2006 already. I kind of adopted this sort of jetlag after I joined University, All of the previous year I went about thinking that it was 2004. At least my subconscious. I even started putting it on exam papers. But now that I'm getting more and more aware of it, I ask someone what year it is before putting it down somewhere. So what makes my subconsious retract to the good old years. 1998-2002 to be specific. Well I guess I was a much secure individual back then. I had prospects. I had a perfect routine. I had it all planned. Well not quite actually. I seriously considered pursuing higher education in Math back then(Inspired by the one and only guru Sir Minhas himself). Right now I want nothing to do at all with Maths. I want to be a novelist(even though the closest I am to writing is this blog), an artist(even though my greatest works are comics, a couple of lame attempts at recording my own[and Basim's] lyrics [Hamziee I miss you so much :_(], some stupid videos, ideas, flashwork, photoshop work that I consider art and thats about it), someone that just goes around dispersing novell ideas, and apart from all of the above, a jack in all trades or a master in a trade that requires me to be a jack in all trades. Doing a task or a job or studying anything in depth makes me yawn. I know this wasnt me a couple of years back, but times change [... or was it people that change].
Now that I've finished this babbling about the garble[I'm using this word for someone special] thats accumulating in my mind, I'd like to point out a site that will be of aid to a lot of bloggers out there, who tired of photobucket would want to add streaming video to their blogs. Yes my friends it is here. Youtube is a service which lets you upload videos with tag words, and you can throw some code in blogger while writing a post, that imbeds a player onto your post. This is actually quite cool. The YouTube site offers a lot of videos. Its a searchable interface and the quality of the stream although not being that great, is more convinient because it loads up in around 5 mins on my internet connection at home. This site is, I repeat is of no use to me or any other GIKIAN blogger as the net there is too slow. However when I return home for Eid(in a weeks time), I might post some videos around here and there. Coverage is always an issue.
Before I terminate my blog
- I shalt not kill
- I will refuse to work even if it means further education.
Anyways this post almost never wants to end I guess. I keep getting small chores, like burning shaadi CD's, vacuum cleaning, etc. I even went out to get Jalebi in the process. I love a drizzle especially in the winters. Its such a beautiful season. More than that I like playing sports when its drizzling. However I cant stand heavy rain. It makes my head ache.
Oh this is an advertisement I just came across, quite amusing actually:-
Western Union has more Agent locations than McDonald's, Burger King, Wal-Mart, Kmart, Sears and Starbucks combined.
I mean thats true. They have a Western Union Money Transfer at the post office at Topi[land of my institute]. How remote is that.
Oh and a note about how I got into the New Year yesterday night. I was watching lost. I had 5 episodes queued and the third one was running when the clock struck 12. People started lighting firecrackers, I could hear it all. But I chose to stay in my warm blankets and watch Lost. I slept shortly afterwards. That was a really swell way to enter the year 2005 or is it 2006. Yep 2006 it is.
I'd like to thank the folks at Google once again for autosaving drafts. If it werent for them, this post would be lost in the frequent power outages(3 short ones to be honest) that were faced today.
Now I need to get ready for a Reunion Party where I hope to meet some of my old friends from School which was well quite a while back. Man how time flies.
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