communiK | May 2008

We sent out the 3rd issue last weekend.

We need authors. In case you feel like writing something useful, technical or non-technical, take time to visit us, and drop a line. We’ll be in touch.

Irony of commercialism

I was onto The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs when I saw this ad.

Yeah, rite, its Microsft Dynamics, a product from Redmond.

I dont know how (fake) Steve Jobs would be feeling after knowing about his blog displaying such ads as he normally goes quite hard on Microsoft e.g this, this & this.

But then the piece of software that gets ads and displays em is innocent enough to realize the stuff

Celeberity Post: Afshan Ahmed

It seems I have too much time to spare these days, the way I’m regular at my blog

After going through todays newspaper, I was so much feeling like penning down something on the political drama being played in my country, and I was almost about to write when I came across my childhood crush :$

And I put the drama to some other day.

Yeah, you got it rite: Afshan Ahmed.

She was so pretty and cool then, so is she now. Pretty and simple. I remember how I used to wait for her program that she used to do with Sohail Rana sb. And her voice, no match. Sooraj kare salam chanda kare salam and the ultimate Mere bachpan ke din , that she did with Muhammad Ali Shehki, are just a few to name of her masterpieces.

And it was this video of her singing Tahira Sayyed/Ahmed Faraz that caused this post. Just listen to it. Its the same fresh voice as it was years before.

Although I fear her husband reading this and kicking me where it hurts the most , but Afshan Ahmed, you rock.

PS: Dont forget to watch this Binaca ad a.k.a Subah Binaca Sham Binaca, Sehat ka pegham Binaca

Need a Hair Cut ??

Let me take you to the Virtual Barber Shop.

If you have few minutes, its worth taking:

I have experienced such effects in cinema before this, but still, this is amazing. Particularly when he wraps the bag around your head. Its amaaaazing !!! Good knowledge and use of human brain.

Dr Mahathir Mohammad’s blog

Yup, you guessed it right.

Its ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia ba-qalam-khud. As he puts it:

This site is dedicated to publishing my writings as and when I am able to pen my thoughts and opinion.

Interested parties, including the Press, are welcomed to reproduce or quote materials published here with the condition that they are credited to chedet.com.

Comments and feedbacks accompanied by names or pseudonyms are welcomed. Anonymous postings and those containing profanities and obscenities will be rejected.

Mr PM (ex) is using Che Det as his pen name, which is probably a nick name of his.

I am an all-time fan of Dr. Mahathir. I appreciate his policies & reforms that helped Malaysia reach this point in economic growth. He has some interesting points to make when he talks about Islam. And economy & Islam are just not the last things he is good at.

I had attended one of his lectures physically that he delivered while addressing the convocation at my university. He was a guest, and I actually felt honored on having such a guest at my convocation. He is such a reformer & policy maker.

I hope for some healthy debates on his blog. Two thumbs up for you Che Det.

Crossed Swords

I haven’t read it as yet, and neither is it available in the local market as yet, but I look forward to reading it, as Ali Eteraz suggests it to be an insider’s view. Shuja Nawaz, the author, who is real brother of a top Army General Asif Nawaz Janjua, is known for his learned opinion on military and politico-economic issues.

As Ali puts it:

Crossed Swords is not just history. There are important lessons and warnings to be found in the text. For example, the immense number of generals appointed by former Islamist dictator Zia ul Haq — who seized the presidency from Benazir Bhutto’s father in a coup — have not yet taken hold of power. When they do, after the current group of leading generals resign in perhaps five to ten years, Pakistan’s famously secular military may be disposed to take an Islamist turn.

which to me is quite a learned observation.

As compared to Military Inc. , by Ayesha Siddiqa, which was more of a research paper and full of technical terms, the review suggests the linguistic style of the book to be “probably appropriate for the kind of formal English that Pakistani and British academics speak”.

Will update this blog with my own experience of the book once I get hold of a copy.