wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

Follow-up from my previous post on bitoogle. It seems it has been renamed to Yotoshi and now can even search KaAaA (while filtering out the fake RIAA seeded files of course).

Posted on August 29th, 2004 under Web. Comments Off

A shoutout for a friend of mine. He belongs to a really cool offroading club in Pakistan. The 4×4 Offroaders Club Karachi has been making some cool and far reaching trips into the wilds of southern and central Pakistan.

The photos are simply spectacular – how can you not want to join them on their next [...]

Posted on August 19th, 2004 under Pakistan. Comments Off

I need one of these babies…

All I have to do is pair my 3 Mbps Comcast cable connection with a 6 Mbps DSL connection from Speakeasy. Leech heaven! Well, until I feel the need for a hundred megabit connection anyway…

Posted on August 17th, 2004 under Tech. Comments Off

Bitoogle looks to be an interesting extension of google. I can always use a better search for torrents.
www.bitoogle.com

Posted on August 13th, 2004 under Web. Comments Off

Microsoft finally caught up. Now there’s a web based interface to MSN Messenger. Solves firewall and admin rights problems for those stuck behind corporate security policies.
I like the interface. It’s fairly close to the installable client. It doesn’t seem to support sending messages to mobile devices though. Or if it does, I haven’t found it [...]

Posted on August 9th, 2004 under Web. Comments Off

I’ve been using Orkut now for exactly three months now. I liked it a lot in the beginning, but its performance has gone from bad to worse to unusable now. Sure, it’s a beta service, but so is Gmail. Google doesn’t seem to have the same quality of service applied to their beta services.
The [...]

Posted on August 4th, 2004 under Web. Comments Off