wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

Currently listening to I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith…

July 2nd, 2004 | | | Comments Off

“A helicopter is close enough to be brought down with small arms fire when you can no longer completely cover it with your thumb held at arm’s length. — Vietnamese Rule of Thumb”

July 2nd, 2004 | | | Comments Off

A friend pointed me to an IBM research venture called ReMail.

It certainly looks very interesting, with a number of innovations in dealing with threads, mapping contacts to messages and searching. Take a look at some of their publications here:

Reinventing the Email Client
ReMail: A Reinvented Email Prototype
Email Thread Visualization

June 29th, 2004 | | | Comments Off

Yes, it has been a tremendously long gap. But I have good excuses. I changed jobs, moved 1166.5 miles, bought a house, and misplaced my PC somewhere in cold storage.

I’m back now, and trying to catch up very quickly.

June 29th, 2004 | | | Comments Off

Via Jeremy’s blog: some more documentation on Yahoo’s DomainKeys proposal is now available.

“Yahoo is fully committed to making the DomainKeys framework an open Internet standard and has accordingly submitted the DomainKeys framework as an Internet-Draft entitled “draft-delany-domainkeys-base-00.txt” for publication with the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).”

May 21st, 2004 | | | Comments Off

Notepad2…

Having seen mention of Notepad2 on six different blogs in two weeks, I finally had to give in.

It’s now my default text editor.

May 6th, 2004 | | | Comments Off

Finally signed up for orkut. I can give out invites if anyone is still looking for one.

So far I find it refreshingly simple. Clean presentation and responsive. A few links and tasks are unnecessarily nested, but I can live with them so far. Now let’s see if it will let me track down friends from high school.

May 5th, 2004 | | | Comments Off

Acrobat Reader 6 certainly is slow while starting up. In fact I would go as far as to say it’s painful when launching a PDF link from the browser. There are good tips on disabling unnecessary plugs here and here. Launch times improve dramatically.

April 30th, 2004 | | | Comments Off

PBS has a very interesting documentary on Einstein’s wife, Mileva Maric Einstein. It seems she was deliberately erased from his life story. She may have also had a hand in collaborating on his work, yet being an object of his contempt and abuse.

“Albert has a new lover, his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. On his 34th birthday, he gets a card from Elsa. That evening, Mileva is absent from a party. The next day, worried friends call on Mileva. Her face is bruised and swollen.”

April 25th, 2004 | | | Comments (1)

I really like Jon Hick’s treatment of the logo for the Mozilla email client, Thunderbird. If anything, it’s even better than the Firefox logo.

April 23rd, 2004 | | | Comments Off

One of my friends has started his own blog – Nuskha-hai Wafa at bilalrafi.com. Good to see that he’s another Movable Type user.

April 23rd, 2004 | | | Comments Off