As the title says it all. I’m obsessed with Wordpress more after the launch of 2.7. The new Admin UI and features are just great.  What I like the most in new Wordpress is the updation of plugins & Wordpress. This will probably be the last time I upgraded my blog manually. Now whenever Wordpress have updates to install, I’m just two-click away – awesome.  Wanna know more about the new Wordpress 2.7, click here.

Oh yes, I’m alive . Damn, I haven’t updated my blog since ages. Okay there is so much to tell and write about so here I go:

Work:

1. Teabreak v2.0 
   Didn’t do much on this version, just a helping hand with Shahzad  
2. SOCH ‘08 
   Got this project from batty. I liked the cause and  it was great working with Rumaisa Reem and Kiran Nazish, specially Rumaisa. I hope I did justice to this project in such a short timeline.
3. Learning jQuery 
   On a very beginner stage rite now.
4. WAP/Mobile websites
   Did a basic WAP project at office (can’t share the link here). The optimization for mobiles take hell loads of time . But its again a good experience for me – learned something. Oh btw, my blog is now mobile friendly .
5. My website
   Yeah I’m working on my website . Hopefully, it will be launched by end of Jan 2009

Blogging:

Many of my friend have started blogging. Adil Siddiq is one of them, my really good friend, do check his blog http://adilsiddiq.wordpress.com and also Ali Hamza’s blog

Movies:

I’m now regularly watching movies, downloading from torrent, watching in Cinema or at Adil’s place . Recently watched these movies

1. Batman – The Dark Knight (awesome movie)
2. Dostana
3. Golmaal Returns
4. My Sassy Girl (nice movie)
5. Never Back Down
6. Hellboy II
7. Hancock
8. Keith
9. Kung Fu Panda (good movie)
10. Madagascar 2 (I like to move it, move it )
11. Rock On!!! (good movie)
12. The Secret (very nice documentary – recommended by Sundus, my colleague)
13. Wall E (good movie)

Flickr Meetup:

Went to Mubarak Village with Photo Club Karachi (PCK) Flickr Group on 02 Nov 08. Did some photography there. Now I seriously need a good camera . Planning to go on next meetup which will be held this month

Music:

Listening to these albums and singles now a days

1. Noori’s new single Do Dil
2. Nickelback’s album Darkhorse
3. Dido’s album Safe Trip Home
4. David Cook’s singles and covers
5. David Archuleta’s singles and covers
6. Linkin Park’s Road to Revolution Concert and album Songs From The Underground

That’s it from myside. Take good care of urself

Love and Peace,
ZA

I’m the Voodoo Dude of the Month – April 2008

I won 5 Free Voodootee-shirts of my choice.

Link: http://www.voodootee.com/voodoodude/vd.htm

Get ready to go naked. On April 9th, 2008, hundreds, possibly thousands, of blogs and websites will go naked in honor of CSS Naked Day. Join fellow WordPress bloggers in honoring web designers and WordPress Theme builders by going naked.

This is the third year of the annual CSS Naked Day which honors web design and designers around the world who help make our websites and blogs look “pretty” to the eye while still being totally functional under the hood. Dustin Diaz wanted to give the web world an opportunity to remind everyone of the benefits of CSS web page design. By removing the stylesheet for the day, the world would see naked web pages, giving a little more appreciation for the skills of web page designers.

As explained yesterday in the Blog Herald announcement of CSS Naked Day, this is also an opportunity to showcase how usable and accessible your web page structure is even without the pretty, reminding the world that it is the law that your website must accessible by everyone using any method to access your blog.

Make Your WordPress Blog Naked

Do check out TeaBreak.pk as I worked on the theme for this wonderful website done by my very good friend and colleague Asim Imtiaz.

About TeaBreak

Our mission is to give our readers a break from work and let them enjoy their “tea” time.

And we are doing this by bringing all the popular blogs of Pakistan on one platform. So that readers have an easy access to their popular blog feeds. In this manner we are not only facilitating Pakistani blog readers but also providing bloggers a platform to launch their write ups and increase the “readership” of their already established blogs.

We present to you posts from Pakistani blogosphere – tagged and categorized.

Click here to:

Learn more about TeaBreak | How TeaBreak works?

Do you have a blog?

If you do, we invite you to join our network of Blogs and reap the benefits we have in store just for you!

How can TeaBreak help my blog and why should I join?

Take a Tea Break, now!

TeaBreak.pk

Subject: I want you to know..

What would you do if every time you fell in love with someone you had to say good-bye?

What would you do if every time you wanted someone they would never be there?

What would you do if for every moment you were truly happy there would be 10 moments of sadness?

What would you do if your best friend died tomorrow and you never got to tell them how you felt?

What would you do if you loved someone more than anything else and you could never have them?

Some people live and some people die.

But I want to tell you I love you and you are a true friend…

That I will always be here for you when and if you need me…

If I died tomorrow, you would be in my heart forever..

Would I be in yours?

we might be best friends one year, pretty good friends the next year, don’t talk that often the next year, and don’t want to talk at all the year after that..

So, I just wanted to say, even if I never talk to you again in my life, you are special to me and you have made a difference in my life..

I look up to you, respect you, and truly cherish you..

Remember, everyone needs a friend, someday you might feel like you have NO FRIENDS at all, just remember this e-mail and take comfort in knowing somebody out there cares about you and always will..

I LOVE YOU

So yeah go and let them know that you love them.

Oh no, YouTube is banned in Pakistan. I’m like a daily user of YouTube and I almost watch all my favorite programs and videos there but what to do now . It is banned and this is really sad .

The popular video sharing site ‘YouTube’ has been blocked by all ISPs in Pakistan on PTA directive. It is, reportedly, the second most visited website on the internet trailing Google itself, which owns YouTube.

This leads to a dark recollection of the blanket blocking of the blogspot.com domain which rendered all blogs hosted on Blogspot inaccessible for the majority of Pakistani users who didn’t knew how to utilize proxy servers and about bypassing such restrictions.

An email from Micronet Broadband Limited [MBL], a leading ISP in Islamabad follows:

Dear Valued Customer:

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk)
has directed all ISPs of the country to block access
to www.youtube.com web site for containing
blasphemous web content/movies.

The site would remain blocked till further orders from
PTA. Meanwhile, Internet users can write to
youtube.com to remove the objectionable web
content/movies because this removal would enable
the authorities to order un-blocking of this web
site.

Hope you all having a great time in your life. Yeah, this is my first post here, where I would write and share about my blah blah stuff.

A little about me, I’m Zair from Pakistan. By profession I’m a web designer / developer. Currently working at a company named Creative Chaos (Pvt.) Ltd. I handle the XHTML / CSS based websites there. Now I’m also leading a team there which is an honor for me.

Besides from work, I love listening to music and I like to do photography in my spare time. So do give a visit to my flickr page.

Will add more about me and myself here later but I would like to inform you that this website is still in Under Construction process. So you would be seeing some major or minor updates in future. I’m signing out now.

Have a good life ahead.

Love,
-Zair