Three months after launch, the Learning Finance project has started getting serious attention and traffic. Today it became the top traffic blog within my portfolio of blogs (Oil Insights, Desi Back to Desh, Learning Finance and Startup Insights) Ten years ago, I wrote the following lines as part of my project submission across multiple…
Category: Alchemy stuff
Cyclone Phet: Heavy rains hit Karachi
It is 3 am and raining heavily with strong winds in Karachi for the last 90 minutes. The storm front ahead of Cyclone Phet is here. If the rate at which it is raining keeps up, we will wake up to a flooded city in the morning. The temperature has dropped to the low twenties.
Drizzling in Karachi
Phet is finally here. Light drizzle and thunder at 1 am on Sunday morning.
The best of Jawwad Farid
I had always wanted to do this. Take my favorite posts from over the years and put them in one easy to find place where I can go hide when I wanted to run away from the world. Tonight I decided to do something about it. For the benefit of my newly minted ranks of…
Euro outlook – Euro touches 1.2060, Oil slides on weak US jobs data
Stocks, Euro and commodities slid in unison on a weak US job reports when non-farm payroll only added 534,000 jobs compared to analyst expectations. Euro touched a four year low compared to the US dollar while Oil prices slid to a lower level after some initial excitement in the morning before the US jobs data…
What a day – two
I can no longer wait for the rains to arrive and kill the heat. I give up, going off to sleep. Will call when it pours.
What a day
First Governor State Bank resigns, then the old guard at NIT let go and finally the cyclone is a no-show because of a travel advisory against Karachi issued by the US government.
Facebook restored-PTA challenges and cure
Another Lahore High Court judge restores Facebook access in Pakistan showing that our Judiciary can set a wrong right much before the national telecommunication regulator can. Not sure who filed the petition but it was the smartest thing to do under the circumstances. Just wondering if the technology industry is going to take PTA to…
Content or Technology – Who will win? A historical perspective
I don’t remember when. August or September, I know it was New York from ten years ago, I was happy to be on campus, back within the familiar rooms I had recently left. But I don’t remember if it was hot or cold. Fresh from my start up land, pool and lake view apartment in…
Technorati Top 100 – Cracking the Technorati code or a 500 Technorati rating in four weeks
While we wait for Traffic to climb and our Google search engine page rankings to move up and our Adsense revenues to break the three dollar barrier the upward movement in Technorati rankings has been a great motivator for the last few days. When you spend late nights tweaking key words and posts and ponder…