Category: Alchemy stuff

Thanks to a very generous student who helped put the deal together, the Blue Screen of Death (retitled Reboot) will be out in print within the next three weeks. Taking advance orders now for the print edition. The book has been printed in Singapore. Drop me a line in the number of copies you would…

As of 10:30 -11:00 am there was a fair amount of standing water immediately after the Shahra-e-Faisal Bridge to the airport. If you need to still get to Karachi airport to catch a flight or pick up a visitor, take a right into Shah Faisal Colony and follow the road into Shah Faisal till you…

I will break an internal taboo today and a personal resolve to keep politics out of this blog. The last time I did this was post December 27th. There has been a very interesting and at times heated debate going on in the paper world on the fate of the local body system but the…

Finally it seems that we will get a shower that may be a bit more than the wimpy drive bys we have been getting these last few weeks. About time too, if you ask me. Dark clouds, rolling thunder, light breeze and lots of birds hovering about. Here comes the rain… Update: Spoke too soon……

I have always had a soft corner for TPS. I met Sohail, Owais and Shahzad for the first time when they were nominated for the APICTA ICT Awards in Macau. Then we together crashed and burned in front of MIT’s E-Lab’s Ken Morse elevator pitching our products. However Sohail came out as the star of…

I moved to Tahiti. Didn’t like it too much. It was too hot and everything had sand in it. Then tried out Hawaii for a few days, but I can’t surf to save my life and these tropical paradises are someone else’s vision of what the ideal temperature in paradise should be like. What is…

Once upon a time I used to think that given a chance most individual will rise up to your expectations. Needless to say this expectation got me into a lot of trouble. Still does. As recently as Monday afternoon! But then despite a few unfortunate exceptions including the one on Monday, most individuals that I…

Aneeka picks up interesting quotes to put beside the entrance of her room. Monday morning the board read “The only disability is a bad attitude.” I wonder what it feels like to be the four year old behind my son’s eyes. Aneeka and her approach have made a world of difference. We now have more…

Ammi’s is in Liaqat on account of emergency knee surgery and Fawzia is staying over with her tonight. It’s only when mothers, wives and sisters are away that we realize how strongly they hold a house together and how helpless us lesser mortals are without them.

Jehan arm twisted me again to teach the dreamers course I teach at SP Jain, Dubai, in Karachi and Lahore. I had spoken about running something similar back home a few months ago and she had been on my case to do this sooner than later. So this weekend, I will be running a two…