Anybody heard about it? I never knew he was doing any thing such until few days ago. I read on BBC’s website I think. They actually said something like it might turn out to be a “Best Seller”. Not that I am a big fan of him but I have placed order for it. I received a newsletter from Liberty Books, the online book shop of Pakistan about pre-order for the book in title. So I placed an order. The cost of this book is not very cheap. He should have thought about selling it a little cheap so the ordinary Pakistanis could buy it oh and I hope he has planned to release an Urdu version of it too. But I guess he has to show it to Mr. Bush first?

Anyways…You can pre-order “In The Line of Fire: A Memoir of General Pervez Musharraf” here with a 15% discount as of today:
Liberty Books

They accept Credit Card, Bank Drafts, Pay Order and Cash on Delivery (in Karachi only I think). So go ahead with it if you are interested. I am looking forward to read it…

So it’s true I think that when we hear a happy thing or know a happy thing we should not let everyone know too s00n because if you do then the happy thing might leave you. Well, it’s true for my self regarding the happiness of “BLOGSPOT” being unblocked in Pakistan. Yeah you guys commented and it’s blocked YET again. I don’t know what the hell is going on in their minds. Perhaps Musharraf wanted to check out something on Blogspot so it was unblocked for a few hours. Geez. I did not know Musharraf can use Internet.

So what can his e-mail address Be? Any guesses? He has got a site dedicated to him @ http://www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk/. It’s a shame though. It is supposed to be, “President of Pakistan” website. It should about all the Presidents in the past, they were not any good though but still. I mean to say the website is more about “MUSHARRAF” than “PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN”. If you know where I am going…There is a section, ASK THE PRESIDENT and someone has replied there too which the site claims as Musharraf. Musharraf or not I know one thing, I do not see any questions and answers posted after September 2005. Any guesses as why can this happen? It’s another shame that we do not have a website for our Prime Minister. He is not such a great thing too or we did not have HEROES in the past really except a few selected ones but oh well…

Musharraf Musharraf. Present this to Supreme Court so they block my sit3 too! C’mon man. You won’t l0s3 any thing. I can gain alot though. The sites which are blocked, are supposed to get blocked but instead they become popular when people come to know what site is banned. They are always curious to see what might there be on the website. I am gonna write to PTA about this Blogspot getting blocked and unblocked. Let’s see what happens.

I was able to visit Blogspot sites without using any Anonymouser scripts or proxies yesterday. I think the Government has decided to allow blogspot after so many months. Congrats to all users of Pakistan for it. Well, it has been lifted as silently as they implented it. I hope it’s not temporary or the Admin guy forgot to put it or something like that and that it will remain like this forever now.

All the Pakistanis who were previously not able to access Blogspot due to Government’s ban, if you are still not able to access Blogspot then please do let me know here. It’s not any sort of joke. I am able to access Blogspot without using any proxies.

Enj0y!

Windows Vista Build 5536 Released to Beta Testers
Windows Vista, it surely has disappointed Microsoft fans upto some extent because of the delays and cutting it’s features down in order to get it shipped in time & Microsoft not able to come up with what they promised. The biggest of them is SPEED. I don’t think the testers are happy with it’s LAGGING behind part mostly. I was reading few days ago somewhere, some well known guy (SOME because I don’t remember!) had written that he was told about the upcoming Vista build, which will be released to testers and it is very promising, meant to say that it will be a build which testers are looking forward to from Microsoft and will be somewhat if not completely to their expectations.

Build 5536 is a Pre-RC1 release to testers. It surely will reflect what’s coming up in the RC1 of Vista. I wish I were part of this beta! Here are some screenshots:

By Pro-Networks.Org
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Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta - Join Now!
Have been part of a few Microsoft Betas including Windows Live Messenger. It was released just around 2 months ago and they have started rolling in Beta testers for their next version of it. Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.1 Beta!

It appeared on “Available connections” at “Microsoft Connect” website. I have applied for it after taking a little usual survey. Hopefully I am rolled in :-D. Try your luck @ Microsoft Connect Website

From Neowin.Net:

“Microsoft has launched Windows Live Writer. This is a free, downloadable application that runs on your Windows PC and allows you to write blog posts.

Since most blogging tools are web based and not all allow WYSIWYG editing (where you see on screen exactly how the blog post will look), Windows Live Writer will be useful for some writers looking for a faster, easier way to post to blogs.

Tools like this have been around for a long time. For example RocketPost is another company in this space, although they charge $12 for their software. Performancing (a Firefox plugin that people rave about) and Ecto (Om Malik uses this one) are two others. The biggest complaint about these existing services was that editing existing posts is difficult or impossible.

Windows Live Writer has a lot of bells and whistles - preview in WYSIWYG or HTML mode, support for most blogging platforms (Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress and others), easy insertion of photos and things like Live.com Maps, and tagging. Good stuff, but none of it differentiates it from existing year old products.

What does differentiate Live Writer is that they’ve released an API that allows developers to extend the capabilities of the software to publish additional content types.

Too bad that, like Google and Picasa, Microsoft has ignored the Mac platform.”

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I was looking for such a software few weeks ago and lucky me. Microsoft released Windows Live Writer Beta. I have used it for my blog since then. It’s amazing. I came across other products too but they asked for buck$. This one comes free. Good job Microsoft! Well done! If anyone of you want to write blog entries without logging to your blog’s dashboards (CAN GET BORING SOMETIMES) then just give this software a try. Hopefully, if I get time I write a little review of it.

Forgot to mention that it’s a Beta but does work very well. So do give it a try.