More Interviews

Continuing with the interview meme, here are the questions for the two remaining interviewees, Fazia and Renee. That completes my part of the meme since I have now interviewed 5 people.

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Interview Questions

Three people asked to be interviewed in the blog interview chain, so here are the questions for them. For Asif: How many languages do you know? How did you learn so many languages? Tell us an amusing incident from your time in UET, Lahore. How and why did you decide to go to Germany? How… Continue reading Interview Questions

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Blog Interview Meme

This is a chain interviewing game for blogs. Here are its rules: Leave me a comment saying “interview me.” The first five commenters will be the participants. I will respond by asking you five questions. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions. You will include this explanation and an offer to… Continue reading Blog Interview Meme

Islamabad and Atlanta from Above

Asif brought Keyhole to my attention which lets you look at images of a lots of places in the world looking down from different elevations. The image resolutions vary, with the best resolution for Cambridge, MA (3 inches). A lot of countries do not have any real images at all. But it is still fascinating… Continue reading Islamabad and Atlanta from Above

Airport Security and Ottawa First Impressions

At the Atlanta airport, we tried to checkin on the e-ticket kiosk, but it demanded to scan our passports since we were going out of country. Our passports are not machine-readable, so we had to go to the airline counter. Strangely, the agent did not even look at our passports. Now this might not be… Continue reading Airport Security and Ottawa First Impressions

North, North We Go

Since the weather here in Atlanta hasn’t been perfect, we are going to Ottawa, Canada for a week. I hear they have nice weather there this time of the year. Do I have any Ottawan readers? Would anyone like to meet for coffee or something? Also, is there anything to see in Ottawa? My only… Continue reading North, North We Go

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Brazilian Steakhouse

Last week, Amber and I went to Fogo de Chão for dinner. It is a Brazilian steakhouse tradition known as “Churrasco.” According to the restaurant website: Churrasco (shoo – rás – ko) has been a culinary tradition for more than three centuries in Rio Grande do Sul (Southern Brazil). In the olden days, “Gaúchos” (Southern… Continue reading Brazilian Steakhouse

ٹریک بیک اور یونیکوڈ

موویبل ٹائپ ‫Movable Type‎ میں ٹریک‌بیک Trackbacks‎ ایک عجب مسئلہ ہیں۔ کیونکہ ٹریک‌بیک یہ نہیں بتاتا کہ وہ کس زبان یا encoding میں ہے اس لئے اگر آپ مجھے پنگ کرتے ہیں اور آپ ISO-8859-1 استعمال کر رہے ہیں …‬

Michelle at 6 Months

Time flies, Michelle gets older and bigger so fast. Or it stops when she can’t be consoled. The last six months have been very different from any other 6 months of my life. I have established a great bond with Michelle. She spends most of the day with me and we have a great time.… Continue reading Michelle at 6 Months

Front-end and Back-end Changes

There have been a lot of changes here recently, most of them on the back-end. Most of this work was related to having a bilingual (English and Urdu) blog along with MathML equations. This required valid XHTML 1.1 and serving the site as application/xhtml+xml as described before. One strange artifact of a good CSS/XHTML design… Continue reading Front-end and Back-end Changes

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