Desi Founder @ Work

For a Startup Founder getting psyched up for Hajj is simple: There are gonna be extremely hard times, you’ll have to do a lot of things yourself, you should stay patient, be calm, don’t complain, be very resourceful during the hard times and expect a lifetime reward if you do it well. Wait, you’ve been [...]

I’ve been using MS Windows since version 3.1 and ever since Vista is the only OS by Microsoft which I haven’t even tried; and I’m glad I didn’t. No comments required on this. However I must say the next effort by Microsoft, i.e. Windows 7 is commendable. I tried to switch over to Mac but [...]

Looking at the way technology is influencing our everyday speaking and writing styles, I think it won’t be long before even the most traditional of our schools would get influenced. I remember back in 1997 when I was doing my matriculation studies at Crescent Model School, the teachers did adopt to write letters the way [...]

Microsoft is the company everyone loves to hate and I am not an exception. But I think we have gone a bit too far in our prejudice. Surely there are looser products by Microsoft such as Internet Explorer which do not care anything about users and prevent the market from taking a good direction. But [...]

There are documentaries and movies like Triumph of the Nerds and Pirates of Silicon Valley which give an insight into how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started apple and revolutionized the PC industry. There is a lot of other material out there too accurately based on what was initially recorded in the history. But did [...]

We’ve submitted See’n'Report at Knight News Challenge 2009.
Here is the link to the grant application. The application not only describes our current status but also envisions our long term objectives.
I’d like to request everyone following my blog, especially the django community, to rate and comment it.

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Yesterday when I came to my lab I noticed a great change. Mansoor had re-arranged the semi-hexagonal table modules in a great way. Its practical effectiveness was obvious at the first glance.
Take a look:

It can easily accomodate atleast five persons. With each of them having enough room to for an LCD, a notebook and a [...]

Lesson of the day: Get your site up before you make a sales call
It not just a good idea but a must-have that your site should be up before you ask someone to open it … especially when you are making a sales call to a potential customer :D
Me: XYZ TV Channel?
Rep: Yes
Me: [Describes  See [...]

Who says Nerds have no life! Nerds have the most creative minds and come up with most interesting ideas. That’s why they are Nerds. For instance MIT hackers pull the coolest hacks & pranks which fascinate people all over globe.
This year on 1st April we (2’s complement: i.e. Adil, Yaser & me) came up [...]

Creativity is something which always turns me on. And thats precisely the reason why one of the birthday gifts I received this time was one of the coolest ever.
I was in Karachi on my birthday few days back. I got a message from Yaser asking me to check 2’s Complement website. I checked the site [...]