When one’s pregnant and not feeling well, there’s not much one can do outdoors. So no camping trips or long drives for us this spring break. We stayed home and watched a lot of movies. For the ones we watched in theater, I am not sure Amber enjoyed them since she went to the restroom… Continue reading Spring Break Movies
I am an American Now
I guess I can claim to be a real American now since I have got that quintessential American trait: monolingualism. Just kidding. But my language skills are getting worse. Especially in my native language, Urdu. I hadn’t written anything (yes, I mean anything) in Urdu since my college years, now more than a decade in… Continue reading I am an American Now
Magic Third Party
I had planned on ignoring Nader this year, but HijabMan has compelled me to write. What I’m puzzled by, is what I see as ‘short term’ thought. Sticking with the current two party system, shuffling between two parties that obviously aren’t in it for the human-interest. So why “anyone but Bush?” and why not “Let’s… Continue reading Magic Third Party
Libertarian Purity
Via Brian’s Study Breaks, I scored 14 out of 160 on the Libertarian Purity Test. It seems not only am I unlikely to vote for the Libertarian party, I am in danger of being delinked by Unqualified Offerings. Deltoid has a list of blogger scores on this test.
Vote to Heaven
Via the Head Heeb comes this report of God focussing attention on the Malaysian elections since the football (American) season is over. Is God a swinging voter in this month’s Malaysian elections? An unholy row has broken out between the ruling coalition and the Islamist opposition over which side the Prophet Mohammed will be barracking… Continue reading Vote to Heaven
More about Urdu Blogging
Sorry about another process post, but there were a few issues that I didn’t get to in my last post about Urdu blogging. Win 98 issues With a default installation of Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 6.0, you cannot see some of the Urdu characters on this weblog. It seems that Tahoma version 2.3 which… Continue reading More about Urdu Blogging
This is Unacceptable
Do you think I should delink Max over this libelous post? Here’s the news story he’s talking about. You can take the test yourself here.
Urdu Blogging and Web
I am using the Tahoma font for writing Urdu. Unicode is the standard character set for such things nowadays and the Arabic script part of it contains characters for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc. Some other fonts provide the Arabic characters which are a subset of Urdu ones, but not all Urdu characters.
اردو بلاگ ویب رنگ
میں نے اردو بلاگز کے لۓ ایک ویب رنگ بنایا ہے۔ اس کا مقصد ان تمام بلاگز کی فہرست جمع کرنا ہے جو اردو میں لکھے جاتے ہیں- میرے بلاگ کے دائیں طرف نیچے بھی اس ویب رنگ کا لنک ہے جہاں سے آپ دوسرے اردو بلاگ جا سکتے ہیں۔
Presidential Endorsement
Since today is Super Tuesday and there is a primary here in Georgia, may be I should go ahead and endorse somebody. There are obviously a few caveats: I am a New Jersey resident, so I can’t vote in Georgia. And the Jersey primary isn’t till June 8. Who am I kidding? I am not… Continue reading Presidential Endorsement