I am one of those people who use the train to get into work every day. For financial ease, I have ended up buying a monthly season ticket, and I was surprised at the amazing number of failures I was getting with these season tickets. The railway companies are pretty good about it, and if [...]

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I can’t stand people who are not into food. Yeah they should … they should … they should just starve and die! Conversation with friends. Syndicated from: The letters ‘S’

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Gone are the days of Filofaxes, diaries, and memorizing numbers. Unless you avoid mobiles, or make an extreme effort to stay away from it all, you carry around with you in your pocket or handbag a wealth of data. Contacts, numbers, appointments, emails and sometimes even vital information like bank details and such like. Then [...]

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The internet is wonderful. There is no question about that. However, thanks to a random comment on my blog contact page, I have come across this link: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html I would recommend a view, and a read of the comments underneath as well if possible. It comes with subtitles and everything, so hopefully it should not [...]

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I have lived in Oxford for a little over two years now, and lived in the UK for about 6 years now. In this series of articles I will try to explain to my readers in Pakistan what life is like in the UK, and of course in the lovely city of Oxford. I will [...]

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So about two years ago, Sharpie announced the Liquid Pencil (http://blog.sharpie.com/2010/08/introducing-the-new-sharpie-liquid-pencil/). Every since that announcement, I have been waiting for it to be released in the UK. Two years go by, and still nothing. However, the other day, browsing through Staples (in the UK), I came across the Staples Liquid Pencil. Compared to the Sharpie [...]

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  I present to you one of the most famous images of Steve Jobs. It always makes me wonder. It is not the eyes and that very subtle smirk on his face. It is that hand. That hand in front of his face, which seems to be supporting his chin. I have stared at it, [...]

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Before you reject this as an oxymoron, consider the setup. Not just in Pakistan, but all over the world. Not just in the UK, not just in the US, and not just in China. Consider all the laws. Consider the society, and the laws it sticks to. And if nothing else, consider John Grisham’s The [...]

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So I have this new laptop at (my new) work. I unplugged and re-plugged the charger, as you do, and discovered that the computer stated it was plugged, but was not charging. Curious, I looked at my options/preferences, and found nothing. Googled, and found a lot of people complaining about it. There was also a [...]

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Have been having some interesting dreams lately. Last night it was about Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore, Pakistan. That they had built it on some height. Which meant you could see all the main attractions of Lahore from that park. There was Minar-e-Pakistan in the distance, and there was Badshahi Mosque, and there were other usual [...]

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This is an absolute must – watch for any Doctor Who or Star Wars fan. Syndicated from: The letters ‘S’

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This is one for those who like knitting, and those who like to be stay warm in the cold winter months. It being cold and with the holidays season running on a high, I came across Wool and the gang (http://www.woolandthegang.com), where you can buy needles, yarn, wool, knitting kits, and of course, they also [...]

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Requirement: To communicate between two Arduino Mega boards, about 7 meters apart, sending 6 bytes of data, and receiving 2 bytes of data back from the other board, keeping the supplies and grounds for both the supplies separate. Procedure: The first thing to do was to establish an I2C between two Arduino boards. This was [...]

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