Weblog Review

This weblog has been reviewed by a Pakistani IT magazine, Spider. They rated it among the top 5 Pakistani weblogs. Why did Zack choose to call his blog “Procrastination” and also define the term in the header? Don’t we all procrastinate when we make our blog entries? Apart from that tiny gaffe, Zack has done… Continue reading Weblog Review

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Learn to Become a Terrorist at Tech

The School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech is offering a course on terrorism. I mean student projects in that course include terrorist acts. For those students who always seem to have a gripe with Tech, a 3000-level special topics class in International Affairs entitled “The Challenge of Terrorism” could allow those idle musings about… Continue reading Learn to Become a Terrorist at Tech

Busy Procrastinating

I am kind of busy with work. So posts will be somewhat infrequent. I am not going on a hiatus, however. I’ll post whenever I am procrastinating from work. And what better way is there to procrastinate than to tinker with your template! As you might notice, I have been playing with my blogroll. I… Continue reading Busy Procrastinating

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Pakistani Nuclear Proliferation

You probably know the story about nuclear proliferation by Pakistan. I have written related posts here and here. This post brings together some of the news coming out of Pakistan regarding the recent questioning of Pakistani nuclear scientists. A lot of the articles in The News were written by their investigative journalist, Kamran Khan (Some… Continue reading Pakistani Nuclear Proliferation

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Outsourcing and the Welfare State

On economic issues, I am probably much to the left of the median voter in the US. I am a fan of the social welfare states of Europe. Therefore, I found this paper by Peter Lindert (via A Fistful of Euros) on the effect of a welfare state on GDP interesting. All our well-known demonstrations… Continue reading Outsourcing and the Welfare State

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Weblog Visitors

Create your own country map Amazing how much of the world I have had visitors from. Afghanistan, American Samoa, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Fiji, Finland,… Continue reading Weblog Visitors

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