wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

Visited Fort Worden State Park over the memorial day weekend. It was a long drive back to Seattle, so I didn’t get a chance to wait for the sun to set fully and get a shot of the light itself.

Posted on May 27th, 2008 under Web. Comments: None

Posted on May 9th, 2008 under Web. Tags: flickr, photography. Comments: None

Posted on April 24th, 2008 under Web. Tags: flickr, lake, Pakistan, travel, wallpaper. Comments: None

As someone living with a serious book buying addiction, Paperspine’s beta launch caught my eye.

$15 a month gives you unlimited access to their 15,000 book selection, with free shipping and 2 books out at a time. I’m still debating whether I should jump in at this early stage. Things that are making me hesitate:

2 books [...]

Posted on December 11th, 2007 under Books, Web. Tags: amazon, Books, paperspine, rental. Comments: 1

Testing while stuck in standstill traffic.

Posted on November 20th, 2007 under Web. Tags: iPhone. Comments: None

Found this to be a fairly interesting read. Harvard Business Review interviews Jeff Bezos and talks about strategic bets. I’m happy to see a shout-out for Tagging in 2007.

Choice tidbits: “I’ll tell you a story about an incident that I’m sure is part of the reason we are what we are. Sometime around May of [...]

Posted on October 19th, 2007 under Web. Tags: amazon, business. Comments: None

The coolest community site I’ve seen in a while: trackitt. Green card applicants share data to figure out historic and current processing times at each service center.

Improve the prediction accuracy by entering your own data, watch similar cases or ask questions in the forums. Exactly everything that the official USCIS site would never provide.

Posted on September 17th, 2007 under Web. Tags: community, green card, I-485, immigration, uscis. Comments: None

Very happy to get a mention (two tiny ones actually) in the “favorites of the week” post on Epic Edits.

Posted on September 17th, 2007 under Web. Tags: flickr, photography. Comments: None

Las Ventas, Madrid, May 23, 2007. This was the debut fight for the young bullfighter facing the mortally wounded bull. He was understandably cocky. The bull keeled over a couple of minutes later and there wasn’t a single scratch on the matador.
I was fortunate enough to visit Madrid during Feria de San Isidro, which [...]

Posted on September 13th, 2007 under Web. Tags: bullfight, flickr, madrid, photo, sepia. Comments: None