A tiny bit of ME

I don’t know what to name this one, so I will just name it to what I saw on my friends Blog. Ali Imran and Zuljenah’s. So here I go.

* Alone, or with people?

Alone mostly but if I am in company of people whom I get along with, then it’s fun too. When not studying, I am either in front of my laptop or out or watching tv or talking to mom.

* Summer, or winter?

Summer ofcourse, though I love to get in a warm bed which is the case in winters. I hate it when I get flue and all that, so no to winter. Love summer, esp. the part when rain start, I don’t know what that is called. Must be a particular word for it. I hate one thing about summer though, lol, can’t tell here.

* Black, or white?

White for clothes black for others.

* Observe, or get along from the very first moment

Observe, I will be in function and doing nothing else than standing in a corner or sitting somewhere. I don’t go ahead with ‘TALKING’ first.

* Clown, or Drama (Queen/King)?

Clown…I am not sure about this question though, lol, so please explain it to me. I will update it accordingly if necessary. Ali Imran is online so I’ll ask him. Ok, asked. I leave this to my friends. They will fill it in. I think mix of both.

* A Hummer, or A BMW convertible car

I would love to own a BMW one day. If I ever bought it, I might feel bad though, for it does cost a fortune.

* Loyal or………

Loyal, very. Loyal to everyone. Expect the same from some but never from few others.

* Favorite Material Posession….

My Laptop *wub* (If U kno the inside story, U’ll know Y :p)

* When I look at someone, the first thing I see is….

Face ofcourse, I don’t usually look at the person from distance. As in if I know I am going to meet THAT person, I am coming from a lil distance, I don’t look much at that person while I reach him. Look at the person when I am near. I think I feel the person when we have the eye contact. Never make eye contact with ‘STUPIDs’, can’t explain what that mean.

Incase of *HIJABIS* around, lool, don’t ask! Eye contact only once in the start, after that, almost impossible for an eye contact. I just look at something while talking.

* My life is….

I think I have no right to complain about my life. Alhamdolillah, Alhamdollilah, Allah has blessed me so much. . . But there are alot of things I would have loved to change in my life if I could somehow. Allah knows the best indeed, perhaps me getting all messed up in life, like now, is meant to lead me somewhere good and better?

I would tag all those who’s Blogz are in my list, some of them have already put up this. Others should if they feel like it. No forcing =P, and ofcourse just consider yourself TAGGED if you feel like commenting about your self in above manner.

Got a laptop?

Those who own a laptop, please raise your hands. LOL. I have read like about three laptops exploding in past few months. Scared me really. I own a Laptop too, Compaq Presario 2500 and above all that, it has got a Desktop 2.8 Ghz P4 Processor, these chips produce alot of HEAT. To those of you who are wondering where did a Desktop Processor come in a laptop.

It’s all Centrino and Centrino DUO now in laptops. Few years ago, there was no Centrino, they had these Mobile processors, which were costly as compared to Desktop processors, so manufacturers released versions of laptops which had Desktop processors in it, they costed less but the biggest problem with them was “HEAT”. They produced alot of heat. That’s not a very good thing in laptop. Laptop is supposed to be a “LAPTOP”, which can sit on top of your lap. No body can bear their laps burning…

My laptop was a really cheap version as well, it came with a further CHEAP processor from Intel, the Celeron. I got sick of it’s speed after a few months and wanted to update the processor. I contacted Compaq guys, first I was not answered perfectly, then I was told by some local dealer of Compaq in Pakistan that Compaq does not support upgrading in Pakistan. You can get a fast version now instead of upgrading. He said upgrading is available in local market but its going to void your Warranty (as if I did not know!). I decided to take the risk and tried to find out which processors can my laptop run on. Again, Compaq were not really helping me, until I came across a friendly person at Compaq’s Help Center, who e-mailed me a document containing full details of Presario 2500, it listed all possible processors this Laptop could run on. The cheapest in them was the Celeron, then a Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz…Mobile processor could also fit in this machine, but it was way too out of range.

It was a pain for me to find Desktop P4 2.8 Ghz with 512KB L2 cache, because Intel had introduced new types of P4’s which could not fit in my processor. Anyways, I found one atlast. I was risking alot, since three months were left still for it’s One Year Warranty and I was going to void that! So the day it arrived, I did a little operation my self. Opened my laptop with help of service manuals from Internet, replaced the Celeron processor with P4 and voila! It worked perfectly and is working till today masha’Allah! The only problem with it is the “HEAT” it generates, that is what scares me when I read all those laptop exploding stories. My laptop has spent almost 3 years with me now, time passes fast! I hope it runs for a few months MORE now and hope I get approval of buying a new one!

Coming back to exploding laptops, here are few images of the laptops exploding from Engadget , who are mostly the one’s reporting all this. Thanks to them! I don’t know why laptops explode like this with people. It has not happened so much, but just like 4 cases in past months. 3 of them were Dell laptops, the other 1 was I think of Apple.

This is the most recent one

And this one exploded in a Conference causing HAVOC =P

And another one!

Scary, no? Esp. for a laptop owner! I hope this does not happen with anyone. I would not like it to happen to me. If it wants to injure me, it can do that while I am in USA. Hehe. So I sue the manufacturer a few Billion Dollars in court for burning my nice suit and ME. :p

My laptop does run HOT but Almhamdolillah no serious problem that is. I have even allowed laptop to run for more than 24 hours without any break. So its pretty safe insha’Allah. I wonder why all these laptops exploded. If they were some OLD version with a kind of processor generating lot of heat, I would understand but these seem new ones, with “Centrino” in it. They are supposed to run really cool. Perhaps it was the battery’s fault? Manufacturers have “Battery Recalls” in which thousands of batteries are recalled from the users when they discover they might cause a problem. Such recalls have happened in the past. Make sure you check around sites like Neowin and Engadget, they post the news of such recalls.

Happy LapToping!

Pictures & News COURTESY of Engadget.COM

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Wordpress updated to version 2.0.4 , looking forward to version 2.1 !

Supporting Lebanon!

You must have noticed “Supporting Lebanon” banner on top right corner of my website. I am making it public here for everyone to use who wants to show they are standing with Lebanon in the current Middle East conflict. If you want to see how the banners look, check out the Example page. I would like to thank brother Mohsin Naqi of GFX Canvas for making the corner banner.

Made up Javascript versions which means all you have to do is place the following code after <body> tag on your site’s template.

For Right Hand Banner. . .
<script src=”http://www.thepatri0t.net/project/lebanon/support_leb_r.js”></script>

For Left Hand Banner. . .
<script src=”http://www.thepatri0t.net/project/lebanon/support_leb_l.js”></script>

Use following if you want to put the Banner on your Blogspot, seperate script is necessary as Blogspot’s default TOP banner might conflict with it. Place the following code after <body> tag in your Blogspot template.

For Right Hand Banner. . .
<div style=”float: right; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 33px; z-index: 1″> <a href=”http://www.thepatri0t.net/2006/07/28/supporting-lebanon/” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.thepatri0t.net/project/lebanon/support_leb_r.gif” border=”0″ width=”201″ height=”203″></a> </div>

For Left Hand Banner. . .
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If you have any problem, just drop a comment here. P.S. Thanks again to brother Mohsin Naqi of GFX Canvas for his help!

Update:
Javascript is just not working with Blogspot, checked script several times but still not working. Just put up the DIV code and it should work. Script MIGHT not work on some sites, if that’s the case then just use the DIV codes above, change “top:33px” to “top:0px” if you are not using it for Blogspot.

Saving Lebanon
So above was to show support for Lebanon on your web site. Here are few links through which you can help the people of Lebanon.

> http://www.fromisraeltolebanon.info/
> http://www.relieflebanon.org/
> http://www.stopdestroyinglebanon.com/
> EDHI Foundation – You can send them money for relief operations in Lebanon
> ShiaChat’s topic on How to Help Lebanon

Cooking & more

Spent a little time in kitchen. Prepared a lil food, it was pure non-veg thing so those who are going to do yukk now should please skip this paragraph. I just grabbed a magazine and found it to be the most simple thing to cook, so I decided for it. It’s name if you translate from Urdu will become, “Friend Mutton” but the funny thing is they did not mention frying it in oil and the little more funny part is the fact that I don’t know names of spices in English so I won’t be telling the recepie, or I should in Urdu and if someone here can translate it for me, I will be thankful!

Ingredients:

• Mutton; cut into little pieces – 1 KG
• Garam Masala – 1 and a half table spoon
• Adrak Lehsan; mashed – 1 table spoon
• Lal mirch – 1 table spoon
• Zeera; mashed – 1 tea spoon
• Dhanya; mashed or powder – 1 tea spoon
• Salt – To your taste
• Water – 1 and a half cup
• Yogurt – 1 cup

How to:

• Say Bismillah & pray for me without whom you would not know how to cook this. =P
• Put water in a utensil
• Put all the spices except yogurt in it and let it boil a little while mixing the spices in water with your hand (joking!), with a spoon ofcourse!
• After it starts bubbling =P, put the mutton pieces in it & stir it with the spoon so the pieces are properly dipped in it
• Leave it now until the water in it dries then put Yogurt in it and FRY. . . Now I wanted NOT to put any oil in it but I was told by 30 years of experience in kitchen matters, my dear mom that it won’t FRY without oil *blush* so yeah do put oil before yogurt and let it FRY a little after that put yogurt and let the yogurt DRY.

That sounds like an awful cook above! But the result came out as surprise for me. I was not expecting such a taste, it was yummy! I cooked it for all ofcourse but mom insisted I should eat it MORE, not that it was not tasty for them but she is always like that now. Hehe. *wub*

Enough of unexperienced and awful cooking. I know I have said alot of times that I am working on a few articles. You are not seeing any thing till now because I need to think long before it gets done. Draft sort of is ready but I want to make sure it’s good enough before I show it here so just wait & how many of you are interested in such boring articles anyways? It’s clearly visible in last entry =P.

Few of you must know what happened to shia women here few weeks ago. They were killed by ‘Shia Haters’. They were just teachers and nothing else. Those idiots did not even leave the little kids who were with them, killed them also. Mom told me just yesterday that one of the woman was pregnant that’s even more awful. . .Plus one of them had called her husband in village and asked him to come as they are feeling danger but the coward did not do any thing and said night is coming up, we will see in morning. He should have contacted the village elders and went with them. Same village guy is member of provincial assembly, his brother lives in village and is usually ready to do such sort of a thing. The husband should have asked him for help, they could have made it there even in night with a few pickups, guards and even police! *sigh* But it’s all over now.

Do any of you get “ARY One World”; the news channel? I am big fan of Dr. Shahid Masood’s “Views on News” on this channel. I am further a fan of them now for the fact that he has made it to Lebanon like around 9 days ago! He is doing one program daily from Beirut, loving it! Western Media might be manipulated and they might not be showing the real images but Dr. Shahid is sending some real images and really heart breaking. Hezbullah’s spokesman, I forgot his name, a young guy, I think “Hassan Rayaz”, he took all the media on a little tour of the severely hit areas of Beirut. Blocks of buildings destroyed, alot of people mighe be still under the rubble as rescue workers can’t work. The Israelis hit same area all the time! Even if someone was hiding underground, under those buildings, they would be trapped now. . . Hezbullah’s spokesman was asked if he wanted to say anyting to the Pakistanis. *wub* You know what his answer was. He said greetings to the great people of Pakistan who have always stood with Lebanon in the past and have helped us alot then he goes like we love you. Pakistan can’t openly support Lebanon, we are in a mess our selves, but atleast we are better than the Arab kings. . .

Anyone know “Abdul Sattar Edhi”? He is a social worker in Pakistan and I think has the largest network of ambulances around the world. His name has even hit the world records book. Love him for his work, he lives a very simple life and I hope I am not exaggerating his personality here, he has no new clothes, he still wears the ones which he had in his marriage!

Today not just in Pakistan, but in the Muslim world, Abdul Sattar Edhi has earned a reputation as being one of the most selfless and honorable human beings today. Despite his fame and reputation he continues to lead a simple life, he wears traditional Pakistani Shalwar Kameez, of which he only owns one or two, and he owns one pair of slippers, which he has supposedly worn for the last twenty years. This is despite the fact the Edhi Foundation has a $10 million budget, out of which he takes nothing for himself. His son Faisal once stated that when the Foundation was setting up in Afghanistan, local staff had purchased chairs for guests and the press when a new center was being opened, when Edhi arrived he was furious because the money that was spent on the chairs could have been used to help people, that night he slept on the clinic floor with the ambulance drivers.

He has reached Lebanon in such a time! Dr. Masood showed him yesterday and had a little interview with him. Eidhi wanted to buy 100 trucks of supplies from Damascus and then send to Lebanon but he was told by Embassy of Pakistan that trucks and oil tankers were bombed by Israelis, so that’s not a good choice right now. He has given money to Pakistani Embassy, so if a Paki comes to get out of Lebanon, he will be helped there.

You must have noticed “Supporting Lebanon” banner on my site. I figured out a simple way to put it up there, it looks fine in Firefox but not in Internet Explorer. I am working on a “javascript” version of it, after which I will post it here, for anyone to take. You can even now take if it you have experience with HTML and CSS, just search through the Source. I will also change background of current theme today sometime insha’Allah.