Good things and bad things happened just about the same time. boinkers..

The good first.. Paras Amir Ali Allana who I know through flickr and Raheel Lakhani was in town recently with here family.. And since she’s a friend how could I not show her around, even though I haven’t seen this place much.

We went to a couple of places, including The Toy Museum, a full ride of MRT line (though it wasn’t intentional), then it was for a 3d movie experience, I took them to see G Force, and then the bungee which was my favourite, and then to round it all up, we ate at Lao Pa Sat. It’s a matter of one’s taste but Paras’s sister didn’t quite like the food there, which obviously made me think I should’ve taken them to some other food place I guess, but anyhow.. the day was fun.

Some days later I find out, my website and blog is being marked bad by google. some malicious links had been reported.. I was like woahh.. hello… bring that thing down.. I looked up, checked properly, verified and then requested a review… which was pretty quick and my website status on google was restored ( ).

Anyhow, it’s about only 2 days to Eid, and some how it doens’t really feel like Eid, but I did make a Eid card to put online. You can leave a comment about it on this page, it’s facebook page or the deviantart page.

Also now that I have my fish eye lens, telephoto lens, wide angle and macro lens I think it’s alot fun to do photography.. Also I m going to attend the GCT in the morning…

Here are some photos I took recently.

Tags: blog, bungee, camera, crap, down, Eid, fish eye, fun, Google, lens, macro, maza, naureen, paras, tafreeh, telephoto, visit, website, wide angle

I don’t know but it seems like a good change happening, and I m a little happy about it too. I write crap I know, but I still like to read some good stuff, lately I’ve been visiting Teabreak more and more to read, yes read. I did have some sort of confusion, but then, one doesn’t need to be confused once it’s rolling good.

Then I m caught up with some work, both from the office and freelance, and I m getting less time to focus on the freelance, which is bad, but then we have week ends for that, and I m hoping to wrap it up nicely in a gifted manner before the week ends.

I m also going a little easy on some things I should not be, some of this stuff includes my current work, and the reason I’d say for going easy is to make it as smooth as possible, while staying relaxed, because I know I’ll pull it off before the time ends.

Zair dude is also getting people involved into blogging, he recently got another blogger ‘Aychaa‘, which is good, you know I m into blogging, and I do make efforts to get more people involved too.

Of late, I’ve started wondering about my new job, how is it going to be, how’s the new expereicne going to be? will I enjoy it, will I hate it.. what not.. hell, it’s not yet time.

I’ve also recently discovered Cuil. If all goes well, it could make for a decent competetor for Google search, only if all goes well. I really like it’s GUI. I m also planning on learning alot of new stuff including PHP, some of the seniors here at work had started some classes on that, sadly, these classes have stopped for some reasons I m not allowed to write here, even though this is my space..

I would like to write more now, but then whose gonna do my work..

Tags: aychaa, creative chaos, cuil, free, freelance, Google, job, me, office, teabreak, time, work, Zair

The new version of WordPress you know includes the Google gears implementation, in case you folks did not know that, this is one big help, no kidding..

Your writing and managing the blog becomes much more easier, not to mention effecient.

The link at the top right of the admin page in WordPress, which says ‘Turbo’ is what enables this option. You will need to download and install Google Gears, which is available for Firefox as well as Internet explorer. sweet..

The new other impressive feature is the Pressthis link. Which is much more sophisticated and categorized  to what you want to put online. Surely wordpress has progressed and groomed itself very well.. awesome.

Here check out this video which has a detailed account of the new features of WordPress 2.6.

Tags: 2.6, gears, Google, new version, wordpress

I was reading through the feeds on my google reader, and I found an interesting thing on Brand new, I found Jane’s Brand timeline potrait, which prompted me to do one on my own too..

So here’s my take on it… whats yours ?

Tags: a4tech, adobe, apple, azureus, branded, brands, coca cola, firefox, Google, intel, lipton, logotype, microsoft, motorola, my day, national, philips, sony, teabreak, telenor, toyota, viewsonic, vuze, wordpress

Recently the web was a buzz with the news of Microsoft‘s giant 46.6 million US dollars bid for Yahoo. HAHA, that would mean they would own flickr.. haha, these people invented MS-Paint, what do you think would have happened ? Besides, what would they name it? MS-Flickr ? Bull shit !

So Yahoo actually rejected the offer, an unsolicited open ‘get rich quick’ kind of offer, but in all my honest opinion, they did good.

Microsoft’s attempt was to compete Google Inc. but in doing so, I m pretty sure they would’ve done much damage to the already damaged Yahoo, Yahoo is now considering Google.. WOW !

Any how, what I read now is even ironic, Yahoo’s shareholders are suing yahoo for not being sold haha !

Geek life track is a random WOW !

Tags: blah, crap, flickr, Google, microsoft, ms-paint, news, random, shit, yahoo

I am sure most folks (a few exceptions) don’t know that I love to read a lot online, from journals to magazines, to news and what not, anything that might interest me, goes through my eyes, and if super interesting, saves some space in my little inefficient brain !

Lately I’ve been doing some tech related reading, and something I really like, is going to have a new version soon, hopefully soon. I am hoping that most of you love this as much as I do, and I am talking about Google‘s Gmail (short for Gigabyte mail, or that’s how it got popular).

Yes Google’s working on a new version of their so damn awesome email service, it’s changed the way pretty much how we do emailing, from introducing labels (someone thinking tags), to threading emails, and then with 1 GB storage in the beginning (1st April, 2004), it’s was a big hit, and why shouldn’t it had been. It’s been a great time working with these people, and hopefully, should be interesting for the time to come too, with the storage reaching the 3 GB mark, I m so happy, while I haven’t used more than 30% of the storage.

I m not really sure of what the new version will sport, since all this news is rumor based ( I m sure you’re pissed at that now), albeit an interesting one !

You can read more about it on ZDnet. (New Version of GMail being tested)

So let’s just hope for the best. Amen

Tags: email, Gmail, Google, innovation, recreation, redesign, technology, webmail