Two things I liked about Christmas

Christmas brings with it lots of new movies, happiness, joy and snow. However this Christmas there were two things that I really fancied:-

1. Aleks's Controllable Christmas lights was a really good site that lets you view a house from three camera's with inflatable homer, santa, elmo, a message board and lights and the fun thing is that you can control the items in the web cam feeds using simple controls on the web page. Really awesome and neat idea. No wonder its raising lots of money for Celiac Research. I wish his kids a brighter future.
   
2. The dudes at the Planetary society have set up a page that allows you too to submit your name, email address etc to be flown to Mars for the upcoming Phoenix mission. It even lets you take a print of a certificate. Cool stuff. It can be found here.
   

So this Christmas has really been about useless but fun stuff, unless you believe in aliens. Just the way we like it.

In case you guys want to know where I've been recently, we'll my teaching duties at GIK have kept me really busy. I even have a web page at www.giki.edu.pk/go/IT. You may want to check it out. And we had an end of semester party for my compilers students. Pics at http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o124/iqqi84/GIKI/TASHIP/Comp_Lab. Apart from that all is smooth sailing.

Need to get a decent digital camera fast under 20K(PKRs). Any recommendations???

Looking forward to hearing from you guys. See you around. Take care & seasons greetings. Looking forward to blogging again on or before Eid.

Becoming the master

    To follow the path:
    look to the master,
    follow the master,
    walk with the master,
    see through the master,
    become the master.

ROFL GIKI WIKI :D

Check this out someone made a reference to Abdul and me on GIKI's wiki page. It was originally on GIKI's wikipage however lateron someone moved it to the Chussi Blog [click here for PK].

Last Paragraph. Awesome stuff.

Regards and keep up the Creative Writing
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I-T

MIT Opencourseware ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just check these slides out. These teachers sure know how to keep kids motivated. I wish I can study from a great university like Stanford, MIT or the likes one day.

Reunions Reunions Reunions

Eid although it is the most boring day of the year and I stick to that, the days before and after can be quite interesting because you end up meeting all sorts of old friends. While coming here, I met Ali Eeman in Islamabad and came to Lahore on the same bus. It was good to get info about lots of old friends. He's working at Askari, something to do with safe investments. Ali Irshad I found out was working at PNG. Bravo Ali Irshad Bravo :). Mustafa Hamdani's working at a Telecom company in Isloo, Hazik's working at Interwood. Well our O-Levels batch of 2000 is all working. Its a practical batch for a practical generation.

Today I met Mohammad Tayyab after so long. He dropped by my place and later on we grabbed subs gobbled them down and headed off to Jarri's. The Beconite gang has been less active in the last two years. Saady boy has gotten himself at Slumberger and hes was last seen on MSN reporting from France somewhere near the louvre. Looks like he's having fun in exchange of working his arse off. Mughni and Zaki are .seen nowhere, Wacky is @ GIK with me, everyone is upto something or somewhere. Kashi is working at a company called Microtech something to do with upper management. Anyways, the gears are churning, the wheels are turning its been fun getting to know that everyone and everything turned out alright. :D

Wait a minute its only just thursday I got a good 2 more days at Lahore. Lets see what else Lady Luck has in store for me.