Technology gap – Pakistan and smart power meters

July 23, 2009

While the world is working on technologies which allow smart power meters to tweet or publish electricity usage via internet, country of my birth -Pakistan- can’t even produce enough electricity. Let alone efficiently bill it.
Last I heard, people still queue up hours in bank lines to pay monthly utility bills. And of course there are [...]

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Google Chrome is gonna stay big time

June 9, 2009

Alright, haven’t posted anything to by blog for little over 9 months now and it is time to get back. And what better way to do that to follow up on the last post.
It was about Google Chrome and I had put up 4 complaints. All those complaints were resolved quickly somehow (not because of [...]

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Google Chrome is here

September 3, 2008

Google today announced the release of their own browser which I have been using with not so many problems so far. Still it has some issues here and there:

It can’t open PDF (and maybe other) files. You have to save those to disk and then open in Adobe Reader
The only Java version which works with it [...]

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Beijing Olympics countdown

August 4, 2008

A Beijing Olympics countdown sign inside Central MTR (underground mass transit rail system) in Hong Kong.

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Translation FAILED!

August 4, 2008

Those of us who have been to China are used to bad Chinese to English translation of signs and menus (done usually online via tools like Babelfish) but this one is hilarious.
The translation FAILED and it was printed as is!
 

via: AdFreak

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