Away for a While...

I am stricken to tell you that I shall not be around for sometime due to certain quasi-academic "engagements". 

I hope I'll be back on track as soon as I safely graduate. 

So, yeah! talk to you soon.

Why scientists love Germany...?

In this era of inflation, there are certain sad stories for PhD. aspirants in Uk. But Germany is really doing nice Science. Check out this podcast by Guardian. Why scientists love Germany

'Super moon' to reach closest point for almost 20 years

Its Super Moon today, check out your local Moon, it will be 0.3% brighter and bigger...
Check out this one at :=>

Yarning to know that creepy cranky word... Just Double-Click it...

Do you, like many other, have problems to decipherer intricate words? Not anymore, it is so simple as a double click. Is it? Yup. You just have to double click that “creepy” word and Google is on your rescue. Its an amazing app from Google Web Store. And it enriches your Chrome experience as well. You need to install this app and unlock the entangled ones.

There are other wonderful apps as well. I use ‘Add This’ for instant blogging and referral. ‘Planetarium’, to watch for heavenly bodies dwelling at the sky. And many more, it is just a beginning. This feature convinced me to more to the Chrome but it is not just a single application. Each application is going to be tightly coupled with its platform that this phenomenon is called ‘Ecosystem’. Since these platforms are in a process of transition therefore I cannot safely bet where would I eventually be part of? Whether open source or closed, free or proprietary, but amazing things are happening everywhere in our technological world. For the moment I am first class citizen of Microsoft, and exploring its development tools is really a fun job.

My beloved Microsoft, You have to do something really great, and intuitively creative, otherwise:

 Talk to you soon.

Acid Rain In Pakistan...???

Acid Inside

Well for quite a sometime there is some kind of viral messaging campaign regarding "acid rain" phenomenon in Pakistan. And when facts are mingled with rumors, then it is preying for the gullible. But this time I believe it is with good intentions. Japan’s nuclear rector emission is rated at level 6 by a French nuclear safety agency.  So it is a fact. What is factitious is that of acid rain in Pakistan. First of all this rumor spread in Philippine that is in a close proximity with Japan. But Department of Science and Technology (Philippine) dismissed such reports. So in turn there is no need for any such urgency in Pakistan as well. Wanted to read it in detail, here you go =>  

Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister) promulgated by a well reputed Pakistani Daily newspaper TODAY...!!!

Israeli Prime Minister being “Promoted” by leading English daily of Pakistan... Well it is really a misleading headline but I believe it can be twisted in the above mentioned way by any of the DAWN’s rivals. There is a growing online advertisement trend and news websites are not immune to it. As it is said, something is better than nothing. An online advertisement on news website is a serious issue where the ad. contents are being  relayed from a third-party. Although one must have given general guidelines for the content but things can turn odd to weird as in this case. Many news websites advertise their own ads. and I think it is pretty safe, since they can get few more bucks from ad posters because now their ad is being displayed as well as printed.  DAWN was quick to rectify its mistake but I was quicker.

Sorry for the quality and capability of mine, I simple had very primitive tools to capture and crop it...

Aliens, Angels, Conspiracy Theory, Alternative Perspective, And more than meets the eye...

Do you like to track "conspiracy theories"? Do you know about "aliens" and want to know more? You have been told "angels" are different than aliens, Is it? What if there is more than meets the eye?

There are a lot of cited scriptures, “scientific” evidences, archeological evidences, legends, and sightings of UTs (extra-terrestrials) around the world. What if you were busier in counting dollars in your bank account and you missed out alternative perspectives and interpretations that promise to unveil the world and its mysteries beyond  the (standard) science? You surely want to catch up. I have got something for you. A series telecasted on History channel. It is about “ancient astronauts”. Do you know two giants ideologically poles apart, Stephen Hawking and Vatican slightly promulgate or I should say confessed regarding UTs? Do you have ever wandered, in comparison with this huge universe why a merely tiny particle of dust has got a phenomenon called "life"? Why to believe that this entire universe with a lot of galaxies, planets, milky ways, etc has nothing to offer but a dismal picture? What if it is not the case and you had been Visited? Do you have seen or heard of these movies, A Space Odyssey,  The Transformers,  Alien vs. Predator,  Star Trek, The Day the Earth Stood Still? Well they are all devised on ancient astronauts plot. You better check it out yourself, it is visual, informative and its better to know some alternative perspectives because it spice up conversation with your peers. Here you go->

When US changes bet on dictators ? Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a leading linguist and philosopher. I think he is emeritus now at MIT. He is considered ‘father of modern linguistics’. But it is just a mere one reflection of his personality. He is more than an academician. He is dissident political activist, and harsh opponent of ‘political hypocrisy’. So you might have figured it out, yes, he hits hard on US foreign policy. I am planning to write an entire article on his academic accomplishments but this time I would like to refer his most recent article elaborating why and when US changes its bet on dictators. And as a test case to Chomsky’s theory you may input ‘Musharraf’ and see whether it resonates with the same frequency or not. His website: http://www.chomsky.info/bios.htm, caters for virtually all the information about this giant polymath. Let’s scrutinize it for the heaven’s sake.

Firs thing introduced as a corner stone in this analysis is the notion of ‘stable dictators’. And most rightly so, since dictators have the capacity of ruthlessness in the disguise of benevolence for his indigenous people. Democracy is a process that brings upon a change in people’s favor through evolution and selection. But it doesn’t come in a system where there are numerous back-doors from polling station to the counting table.

Another reason of US support to the dictatorship esp. in Arab countries is because of lack of trust of Arab’s on US and their animosity with Israel. First priority of US is to safeguard Israel’s interests, even if it has to veto (14 favor of it, only US is to veto) a resolution condemning Israel’s growing settlements in the disputed areas.

Although Chomsky didn’t elaborate through what means US is supporting Gaddafi. I don’t see any such thing, though it can be said in case of (disbanded Mubarak, King of Jordon, Monarch of Bahrain, and other top notch Arab dictators and so called ‘his eminences’)

You better read it but I have given you the crux of it.

Column: by Jawed Naqvi (DAWN), gives Alternative Perspective on Possessing Nukes...

I think Jawed Naqvi belongs to an apologist school of thought that presents an alternative perspective on possessing NUKES, in a sense of discouraging them. Just like Pervaiz Hoodbouy, who believes Nukes made us more vulnerable than ever... It is a worth reading, esp. when it cites some near-catastrophic incidents pertaining to developed nations. And when technological giants like US is not immune to this technology glitch than a nation like Pak. or Ind. has a long way to go...

Although I believe, situation in which Pakistan was pushed to the wall, it became necessary to possess such "WMD" but once we own them, we should be fully aware of 'Alternative Perspective'...

Google Toolbar

Get started with Google Toolbar: IT is a nice addition that comes to your browser. You can share any web page on your FB account, or Blog, or through Twitter, etc. It also comes with Google's page translation utility that is very helpful when browsed page is not sync. your vernacular, along with spell check, Gmail, Google books, Google blogs search, Google Images, Google news and much more...
I have recently used it and its really a bliss, esp. when I have to share a web page, I no longer look whether it has share option for FB/Blogger... On Google's toolbar, it is right there with green color button... :)

When Words Dont Mean It...

Blogging Is Dead Just Like the Web Is Dead: Tech News and Analysis «: "
ITS a nice read, though it doesn't elaborate more on 'statistics' rather than 'arguments' but the notion of 'blog evolution' from macro to micro is entertaining... Face Book is already a well established medium of 'micro blogging' and once upon a time chaps used to play 'games' over it as well and those games became viral to an extent, one of my friend partially attempted mid-term exam (at grad level) because he was harvesting at FirmVille ... ;D

Column: The wondrous world of science

Column: The wondrous world of science is a weekly dose of high-tech news by our renowened researcher, Prof. Atta ur Rehman. I liked "Machine Intelligence" thing, maybe its a prejudice of my (remote) association with the domain.

Prelude: Introspection

This blog - in a huge virtual space - is a tiny reflection of my existence. I will share my dispositions with you. These dispositions range from the (pseudo-)philosophical subtleties to the burning current affaires, from the art of deception to the art of living; where I will introduce characters from the past that has influenced human thought through out the ages that gives perspective to our observations. I would like to share things from the lighter and brighter spectrum of the life. Some reviews from the movies I believe one should watch. Some personal observations in personality-development and communication. And unlock pictures that dwell thousand words. I believe in evolution; hence, in turn, I believe nature didn’t put everything on the face of this universe from the very first day. Things are acquired and abandoned in a course of a long process... So that’s pretty much the case with this endeavor.

Now let’s see, who am I? If I were to describe the attributes as an entity I have, then they are concisely concluded in the standard proforma, 'ABOUT ME'. Here I would like to write between the lines. I am a graduate science student who has opted "Computer Science" as a professional field of inquiry. Why Computer Science? Well, in those days when I had bestowed upon a career choice, a movie 'The Matrix' was much popular amongst teenagers. It was my sole inspiration and the idea of 'Simulated Reality' inspired me from the very beginning to this day. Though it was a pure work of fiction but I am its firm believer. I will elaborate on this phenomenon in a separate post. This movie was a hit, and secured Rating: 8.7/10 on IMDB. Hence, I was the one looking for philosophical subtleties in the world of Computing. And mind it; the question of the nature of 'Reality' in its core is a classical philosophical question. But soon I realized it was a fumble of reasoning. Study of Data Structures, Operating Systems, Computer Hardware Architecture and subjects alike were no where near my perception of the field. Soon it revealed and It was a hard time. Question of changing career, as once experienced by Prof. Hossein Nasr, was not on the decision table. The opportunity of smooth transition to somewhat more meaningful discipline was lost. So I did a compromise, I opted for AI. And guess what, there a movie Artificial Intelligence: AI grasping Rating: 7/10 on IMDB. Though, discipline of AI is pretty much a science about the machines wrapped into an intellectual disguise of logic and computation but that’s the best Computer Science is to offer. But at the same time this vibrant field has its own wonders to explore. Questions of Intelligence, Ontology, Knowledge, though originated from philosophical circles are debated amongst psychologist, cognitive scientists, computer scientists and engineers. Biological Vision intrigues the leading Computer Vision scientists. Bio-Inspired Computing is an appreciation of what Nature has to offer. Moreover, AI is multi-disciplinary, where one is offered to solve problems originating from as diverse disciplines as economics, genetics, and music, etc. So when AI has this much to offer, how come this humble man is to abstain?

At the same time I live on a piece of land that has seen more turmoil than Afghanistan and Iraq in present times. The phenomenon of ‘suicide-bombing’ has become a common place. It’s common to an extent that one gets up in the morning and the first news is of such an unfortunate incident somewhere in the country. Lamentation is on the aftermath of such incidents where certain factions come face to face in interpretation of the heinous incidents, one’s martyr is other’s foe. Ironically the ideological differences 'amongst' the different fractions of the nation are treacherously fatal. It has psychological implications. I will share my views on these current burning issues as well.

Why should you visit again? I believe my dispositions will be thought-provoking, witty, informative, intuitive and inventive. Where there is much room for alternative reasoning, intellectual accomplishment and academic disagreement but no resentment.

This place favors the instincts of those who have a gifted soul.