I have argued before that Pakistan should recognize Israel. There have been some ambiguous signs regarding relations between these two countries recently. First, there was Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf meeting Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Davos Conference was the site of a rare and unusual meeting… Continue reading More About Israel and Pakistan
Year: 2004
John: (extends cape and takes a bow)
In what follows, I do not harbor any intention of making myself clear. I went to school in the hope of knowing, but I discovered that university is concerned primarily with learning. After flirting with industry, it became apparent that corporate lexicons exclude terms such as knowing and learning to save space for synonyms for… Continue reading John: (extends cape and takes a bow)
Welcome, John
My friend John will be joining this weblog as an author. He has some interesting insights and I think he’ll have some great posts. I’ll leave an introduction of himself and his interests to his first post. Let’s welcome John aboard.
Fast Rebuilds
As I mentioned in the previous post, comment posting has been a bit slow lately. I timed it at 35 sec, which is much better than some other weblogs (where I leave for a few minutes after posting a comment) but I think is not acceptable. The problem lies with the fact that all index… Continue reading Fast Rebuilds
Further Weblog Maintenance
When I changed the way trackbacks appear, I broke something as well. It turns out that when someone pings you, only the index templates are rebuilt automatically. Since I had the trackbacks in the individual entry pages, those were not rebuilt and hence did not show the recent pings from Kianoush. First, I tried to… Continue reading Further Weblog Maintenance
A Peace to End All Peace
I just finished reading “A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East” by David Fromkin. The title of the book comes from a quote by Field Marshall Earl Wavell: After the ‘war to end war’ they seem to have been pretty successful in… Continue reading A Peace to End All Peace
US States I Have Visited
Shown in Red. That’s 38 states plus DC.
Countries I Have Visited
Create your own visited country map Via Sofia’s Journal.
Which Lord of the Rings Character Are You?
Congratulations! You’re Haldir! Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you? brought to you by Quizilla Via Sister Scorpion.
Facial Expression
Via Gene Expression, I came across an old article in Monitor on Psychology about facial expressions. Joseph Campos, PhD, of the University of California at Berkeley […] says, “there is profound agreement that the face, along with the voice, body posture and hand gestures, forecast to outside observers what people will do next.” The point… Continue reading Facial Expression