Before blogs hit the internet, most of our information sources were either the Newspaper websites, the Newspapers itself, the Television or the Radio, but soon after the idea of blogging clicked, we could find blogs on almost everything, and information was widespread, but it wasn’t long before some one came up with the idea of Micro-Blogging, this some one was ‘Biz-stone‘, their free service Twitter took the idea of blogging further while keeping it short and sweet.

For some reason, the human kind has always found ways to abuse the very things they can benefit from, in this case, let me put it straight, we found this pretty neat service being misused by chatter of what a person does in every second of their lives. Sure if you do it once in a while, or you’re posting about important events, happenings, or some thing of importance it makes sense, but twitter updates like ‘OK so I m going to the toilet’ really don’t help any cause, and surprisingly people with such updates have a long list of followers too. I have a decent amount of followers on my twitter account, but I respect that and don’t quite post how every second of my day goes on, only important updates, some of my blog posts, some important happenings, or some thing out of the ordinary.

I m not against anyone’s posting of their second to second life online, but I think it’s a misuse of bandwidth, which could’ve been put to much better or fun uses.

I thank the people who bought us Twitter, and urge people to make proper use of it.

Tags: abuse, misuse, status, tweet, twitter, twuack, updates, use

6th March 2009, the day active bloggers in Karachi met again to discuss various issues affecting our nation online and offline, organized by Google Pakistan, CIO Pakistan and Wateen Telecom, turned out to be quite some resolutions and suggestions, thoughts and valuable brainstorming.

I reached the venue a little late, since I was coming straight from work, and particularly because the taxi driver took the longer route for some reason. *Curses the evil taxi wala * Any how as I reached that place I discovered most of the people were already there, I recoginized some faces instantly (Ali K. Chisti, Awab Alvi, Batool, Jehan Ara, Rabia, Badar, Salaina). It was a little surprize that most people know me, I m not much of a proper blog, I mostly write crapy stuff, but anyways..

I was delighted at the fact that this meet up was to discus activism issues, my blog isn’t about activism but what I do like about the idea of activism is that it gives people what’s rightfully theirs and they get their voices heard.

After my arrival, soon Imran Hussain and Umair K. Jadoon were there too,  it was the first time I met them properly, the first time I met them was at the First bloggers meet up, but I didn’t get time to get to know them properly, until obviously we had a great online blogger meet up. Great ppl.

The topic that we discussed was about how to get a better image back to Pakistan, since we’re getting all the negative publicity recently, be it the government or the militants, it’s just not good, so we thoughts it’s time for all the nerds to take the situation into their hands (j/k)

We discussed matters of importance, being it sponsoring bloggers from the outside world or setting up proper resolutions and following them, the sponsoring bloggers idea was brought int light by Badar Khushnood, while Salaina suggested that she could draft a national PR policy. Farhan was of the opinion that we could all put up Pakistan’s flag on our blogs to reflect our love for the country (I came up with that graphic, that I allow anyone to freely use on their blog, but please host it on your own).  I suggested that bring out the positive image, snap along the way and upload the beauties of the country, be it people, places, events or anything on the positive side.

After our discussions and all, we moved to the Bowling area, where some awesome refreshments awaited us..it wa already time my tummy felt the need to get a top up

So we had out tiny snacks, some coffee and then.. yes right then we bowled our heads off.. didn’t make for some good score but had fun.. I had Awab Alvi, Badar and Rabia as my competetors.. It had to be nice and surely it was.

The picture right at the begining was a snap shot that was taken while lights went out for a bit. Thanks to Rabia for the picture.

Related:

Blogap – Bloggers Association of Pakistan

‘Karachi Blogger’s Meet up’ [Highlights]

Highly energized Bloggers meet in Karachi

Tags: 09, activism, ali, ammar, awab, Badar, bloggers meetup, blogs, discussion, fun, Imran, karachi, plans, Rabia, resolutios, thoughts, umair

Above is the new desktop background that I made recently honouring Ernesto Che Guevara.

I’ve been hearing alot about him in my office recently and obviously one of the songs which is a tribute to him, so anyhow I thought what the hell I can give a little tribute to the him myself, hence this wallpaper was born. This is the song that’s been playing in my office: Carlo Puebla – Hasta siempre comandante Che G. You can find a couple of more versions of the song here.

Anyways, since I have a habbit of writing of about more than just one thing in a blog post, so I’ll do just that. I’ve also been teaching  a bit of CSS (Casading Style Sheets) to one of my very close friends, not only just a close friend, he’s actually my best friend, yeah I m talking about Asim. 

I also had to go visit Uzey yesterday, but I was kind of stuck in bed snoozing so I missed it, obviously she was a little pissed at it.

Oh and I’ve not to been having any blogger conversations sadly. Will try to do one soon Inshallah.

Tags: background, casading style sheets, che guevara, css, desktop, el chi, friends, teaching, wallpaper, work

I was just hopping on teabreak and found this:

Looks awesome doesn’t ? Taken from here.

Found on Pizory via Teabreak.

Great work !

Tags: created, hand, made, manual, photoshop

Hello folks.. here’s some Sunday Smiles love from Kurri Pataki.. !

She tagged me, and I had not posted any sort of tag material for a long time, I thought I’d do now…

Random 8 things about myself..

1. Two of my little write ups was published in the school mag, when I was in grade 2, and one in grade 5.
2. I absolutely love computers and I m crazy for a Mac
3. My iPod rocks, even though it’s 5.5G
4. I cherish the friends I have.. and I hate some of them for fun
5. I m jealous I m Zair’s coding skills I envy him.
6. Some times I fail to see the good things in life..
7. I panic, like everyone does, sometimes when there’s no need to, but sometimes I might not panic, and it looks different
8. My relationship with M lady is about 7 years old now

Yeah thats about it..

Tagging Zair, Raheel, Bilal, Ammar, Asim.

Tags: ammar, asim, bilal, fun, kurri patki, sunday, tag, Zair

How’s everyone doing ?

I m hoping everyone’s rocking, like I m right now..

my website, ckcpark.net has been relaunched.. yes it’s updated and it’s one page rockness..

I hope you folks think it’s good, and get me some business

nevermind, check it out.

It would be uber cool if some one could review this site on their blog/website.

Tags: ckcp, conceptual, creative, design, konfusion, media, Park, redesign, relaunch, solution, visuals, web, work

Found these cool videos on ‘A list Apart‘ and these are some cool clips from the best web design conferences ‘An Event Apart‘.

The ones by Jeffery Zeldman, Jeff Veen, Cameron Moll are the most interesting.

Tags: a list apart, an event apart, cameron, jeff, jeffery, moll, veen, web design, zeldman

Teabreak has been reviewed on SAMAA TV, yes thats one more step to a bigger achievement

Congrats to the Tea Break team, and a big thanks to all our users and audience.

Tags: blog, bloggers, feature, love, media, presentation, review, sama, teabreak, tv

Egypt is far away from where I live, would love to visit it some day..
Have been a fan of the pyramids

[my new artwork]

available on deviantART & Flickr

Tags: ancient, awesome, cairo, egypt, giza, history, indoors, photography, pyramids

Oh yes firefox 3 is coming out on the 17th of this month…whopeee

I made this little image to spread the word..

PS. Redistribute the image, if you like it, but please donot modify, or remove the ‘dehog’ logo.

Thanks

Tags: 3, awesome, browser, features, firefox, message, new, opensource, software, sprea, verion