I had three donation links on the sidebar of the main weblog page. Amazon Honor was never used and hence has been removed. The Paypal button fared a little better but with the last donation 8 months ago, I have decided to remove the Paypal button as well. The only donation link now is for… Continue reading Ads and Donations
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What’s in a Name III
This is the last post in my series of thinking aloud about our baby’s name. We were thinking about our daughter’s last name when I found an article about the issue of women taking their husbands’ last names. A debate then started in the blogworld about this issue. For example, see Crescat Sententia. Matthew Yglesias… Continue reading What’s in a Name III
What’s in a Name I
One of the interesting pastimes during pregnancy is choosing a name for the baby. Since we can’t be sure about the gender of the baby, we have to consider both boy and girl names. The question then comes down to what sort of names to choose. Most people choose names either from their own culture… Continue reading What’s in a Name I
My Life in Kashmir III
In the 1940s, every year there used to be a quarrel between Hindus and Muslims on Janam Ashtami [Hindu festival] and Miladun Nabi [Muslim festival] but the matter used to be clear within a week or so. The mischief was often started by the Sevak Sang …
Vanity Googling
This weblog is now #5 on the Google search for Procrastination; #1 for Zack Ajmal; #4 for Zack; and #2 for Ajmal. Also interestingly, I am the #10 search result for “fair and balanced”.
Personalized Nigerian 419 Scam
An interesting twist on the familiar Nigerian 419 fraud: declaring me an heir to someone with whom I share a last name. Dear Ajmal, Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. I am Dr. Muhammad Khalil Hasan,… Continue reading Personalized Nigerian 419 Scam
Blog Talk
In the past two months, the rank of this blog on Google search results has improved from #19 to #9 for Procrastination, #2 to #1 for Zack Ajmal, and from #56 to #11 for Zack. In other blog news, I should pass 6,000 unique visitors and 8,000 page views some time tomorrow. In addition to… Continue reading Blog Talk
Talking Dog’s Dog Run
The Talking Dog has been going through the massive project of commenting on every single one of the links on his blogroll, the Dog Run, and assigning a dog breed to each one. His blogroll is long and extensive and his comments have been pithy and useful. I have been introduced to quite a lot… Continue reading Talking Dog’s Dog Run
Part of Pi
Our names are represented within the first 4 billion binary digits of pi (=3.14159…) if you encode the alphabet into 5-bit binary numbers. Here are the results: search string = “zack” 20-bit binary equivalent = 11010000010001101011 search string found at binary index = 1514694396 search string = “ajmal” 25-bit binary equivalent = 0000101010011010000101100 search string… Continue reading Part of Pi
Google Rank
I am the #1 result on Google for zackandamber. For Procrastination, I am #19. For Zack Ajmal, I am #2 as the #1 result is Virginia Postrel’s The Scene who has me on her blogroll. This site is #56 on the Google search for Zack. I definitely need to do better here.