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Iqbal Day Tribute :: Anwarama :: Ajab Jehan hai yeh

On this Iqbal day, 09 November 2009, my mom watched a drama on Iqbal day, and then she narrated the story of that to me. The story was so much mesmerizing, that I decided to watch that drama on YouTube. Went to you tube, and there it was.

Thought about sharing it with you.
There was a scarcastic comment on Urdu language about that language being dead.

Urdu ki pareishani
sirf Bolney ke zaban
hindustan ke zaban thi
paida dehli mein hui
ab hindustan mein sirf filmon ki zuban hia
yash chopra ney apni filmon mein zinda rakha hua hai
Jo haal kaum ka hia, wahi Urdu ka hia.

Anyway, here are the videos.

I need My Chocolate Drink.

And I thought, it only tastes better.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/health/research/10nutr.html?_r=3

Resume on T-Shirts.

I have wore and seen different t-Shirts, but the idea presented in these links entice me to at least buy those shirts or imprint my resume on them. Lovely Idea.
Browse through the following links.

http://cool.blogsociale.it/2008/07/10/cerchi-lavoro-indossa-il-tuo-cv/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27620885@N02/2654401569/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27620885@N02/2655223616/in/photostream/

Tech Support Cheat Sheet :: XKCD COMIC

I loved the very fact of Customer Support given by XKCD Comic. It really reminds me of the day when I was providing my tech support to my khala and mumani jaan. There is another sarcastic website provided by google. Let me google that for you.com.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/

Enjoy.
http://xkcd.com/627/

Blogging by Email :: Now being provided by Word Press.

I am simply falling in love with word press. Back in the days when I thinking to choose whether or not choose Blogger or Word Press. I was stuck in the middle of Blogger and Word press, and end up having two accounts, one on blogger and one on word press.

http://salmaankhwaja.blogspot.com/2008/06/should-i-be-using-blogger-or-word-press.html

Blogger has blogging by Email, while word press has coolest themes. I now hereby endorse, that Word press is really cool in terms of personal / corporate blogging. The only one thing / feature, which word press was lacking in comparison to Blogger was blogging by Email. Now, our dear Word press is giving that opportunity to blog by email also.

Now, if anyone, out there, can please tell me, whether or not Blogger is better than Word Press. In terms of Search Engine Optimization, I really do not argue with the fact that, google is behind blogger, and it has to be better than Word press, still, with the small magnitude of my blog, I think Word press is taking over blogger, for me.

Word press you simply ROCK.

Also, I loved the fact that, we can add tags, categories and loads of other thing along with Email.

More information can be read here.
http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/

CUSTOMER CARE IN 2020

with the advent of technology, so much private information is being passed / fed into the system, this joke won’t be a joke anymore. In fact it would be a reality.

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Operator: “Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your…”

Customer: “Heloo, can I order..”

Operator : “Can I have your multi purpose card number first, Sir?”
Customer: “It’s eh…, hold…….. .. on…….8898613561 02049998- 45-54610″

Operator : “OK… you’re… Mr Singh and you’re calling from 17 Jalan
Kayu. Your home number is 4094! 2366, your office 76452302 and your mobile
is 0142662566. Which number are you calling from now Sir?”

Customer: “Home! How did you get all my phone numbers?

Operator : “We are connected to the system Sir”

Customer: “May I order your Seafood Pizza…”

Operator : “That’s not a good idea Sir”

Customer: “How come?”

Operator : “According to your medical records, you have high blood
pressure and even higher cholesterol level Sir”

Customer: “What?… What do you recommend then?”

Operator : “Try our Low Fat Hokkien Mee Pizza. You’ll like it”

Customer: “How do you know for sure?”

Operator : “You borrowed a book entitled “Popular Hokkien Dishes” from
the National Library last week Sir”

Customer: “OK I give up… Give me three family size ones then, how much
will that cost?”

Operator : “That should be enough for your family of 10, Sir. The total
is $49.9! 9″

Customer: “Can I pay by! credit card?”

Operator : “I’m afraid you have to pay us cash, Sir. Your credit card is
over the limit and you owe your bank $3,720.55 since October last year.
That’s not including the late payment charges on your housing loan,
Sir.”

Customer: “I guess I have to run to the neighbourhood ATM and withdraw
some cash before your guy arrives”

Operator : “You can’t Sir. Based on the records,you’ve reached your
daily limit on machine withdrawal today”

Customer: “Never mind just send the pizzas, I’ll have the cash ready.
How long is it gonna take anyway?”

Operator : “About 45 minutes Sir, but if you can’t wait you can always
come and collect it on your motorcycle.. .”

Customer: ” What!”

Operator : “According to the details in system ,you own a
Scooter,…registra tion number 1123…”

Customer: ” ????”

Operator : “Is there anything else Sir?”

Customer: “Nothing.! .. by the way… aren’t you giving me that 3 free
bottles of cola as advertised?”

Operator : “We normally would Sir, but based on your records you’re also

diabetic…. … “

Customer: “***%&$%%### You $##$%%@!)))”
Operator “Better watch your language Sir. Remember on 15th July 1987 you
were convicted of using abusive language on a policeman… ?”

Customer: Faints…

Wolfram Alpha :: New Search Engine on the block.

This search Engine, “Computational Knowledge Engine” as they say, is the new search engine on the block. Quite Technical, in terms of the input, but they are targetted on providing almost all the information within one page. Comparing this search engine with google is utter stupidity. People are more accustomed to the shortcuts, lingo particular to Google. Things like

• define: [Keyword] (Word Definations)
• 1000 USD in PKR (currency Conversion)
• Weather Karachi
• so on and so forth

Wolf ram Alpha, defines their own lingo, but they give full information about any particular topic, places, or thing. For example, typing KARACHI, will provide city population, the map on world plane, current local time, current weather. Some fun things are

• Enter your Birth date: it will informing you how old are you. Now, ladies, you do not want to try this out.
• try using IBM GOOGLE to have comparison on their stock positions, Number of Employees, and their market standings
• try entering “RAMADAN in 2009″, it will be COMPUTING when would ramadan starts in year 2009. Now there is no need to look at the calendar, it there.? I tried the same in google, which in turn gave me links to which I can go and then find the answer.

You can check out the examples of this search engines by going through the following URLs.

http://www19.wolframalpha.com/

http://www19.wolframalpha.com/examples/

I also liked the VISUAL GALLERY of Example

http://www19.wolframalpha.com/gallery.html

All in all, Wolf Ram Alpha, is a new kid on the block in Search Engine arena, but it should not be compared with Google / Hotmail / Yahoo. It’s a Computational Engine, as they are not an harvesting block, which indexes all the web pages. Both the search engines are like Apples and Oranges.

FYI, this Search Engine is now a part of My developed Search Engine. Head over to

http://bit.ly/kz1t0

My Facebook Account is re-enabled

Man that was a ride back home. I really didn’t knew untill the last moment, when my account was back up. I created another profile and then ended up with my account being restored. It was hell of a communication from Facebook personnel, but then I didn’t like their tone.

They said something like, based on my communication, they are re-enabling my account. My question is, is there any checks and balances on false alarms.?

Facebook, do you perform any such checks. I am sure you do. They are just not good enough.

My Facebook Account is disabled.

I really can’t feel like enough to blog about, but it’s sad to say that my facebook account is disabled. Now this is a big eff (font size 24, weight bold, underline, and italics) thing to do on part of facebook. Facebook, you are simply out of my list of favorite web-sites.

One fine day, I decided to change the representation of name to “Salman Khwaja سلما ن”. That was all. The next thing, I knew was they didn’t allow to log me in. They said they have found me violating some of their terms and conditions. The details, are off course, kept confidential.

I mean, all I was trying to do is change the representation of my name, and one fine day you (EFF FB) disable my account. I wasn’t doing any spam related activities, any illegal activities, then on what grounds did you disabled my account? I have lost much of a content that I have on Facebook. I have lost all my contents, pictures uploaded, and all the links. I don’t care much about those applications, but I really do not have any other means of getting those back.

I tried emailing them also, but all I received is their automated reply that they have received my application. After a while, I emailed the reminder, the email BOUNCED back at me, saying that the email does not exist. Facebook, a multi million dollar company, is not having that email address with which I was corresponding. There is a limit to professionalism. Anyway, it appears to me that I have no other option to come back to the network with zero activity.

Let me ponder on the benefits and side effects of losing my account and opening a new one.

Benefits

• Clean Profile :: A new re-vamped account will be made, with all new contacts. Quite tedious process and timestakingly work, but it will be clean profile. How clean I can keep it up, is up to me…. gosh, I wonder this time, I should think ten times before adding an app.

Side Effects

• Lost of valuable information like my photos. Photos uploaded by my friends can be retrieved, if they have uploaded and if and only if (sickening) facebook gives me access to re-tag myself.
• A big time taken activity of adding all my friends, ranging from metric – > inter – > Graduation > work. Man that is long journey.

Waise, by the way, why am I going through such activity. Don’t you have any else to do? Well, one big reason is that man is a social animal and I need to be in touch with my network. Facebook, you have changed the way we communicate. You have changed the communication from boring emails awesome chats, application and all that. Still deep down, you have left a scar on one of your user.

Sorry facebook, your terms and conditions are pathetic.

My new addiction

Online Flash Games, epecially, when they are linked to my favourite browser (opera). I was just surfing around, and came across this awesome opera widget( http://widgets.opera.com/widget/11271/) and then I went further to it’s parent website (http://www.sarkscape.com/games/). I am hooked to this game for like more than a week, and still can’t get enough of it. My highest score is travelling 70 Meters. What’s yours.?