A night out with a couple of friends.

Mid-terms are finally over. I would rather you not ask how the last paper went, ’cause what you’ll hear coming out of my mouth won’t be anything short of a nice expletive. Heh.
A whole week for an insignificant mid-term is stretching it too bloody far. A couple of friends have decided to have [...]

Pakistan Studies Exam tomorrow.

Pakistan Studies exam is tomorrow and I dare you to make me go and study for it. Oh, wait. Junaid and Farheen, you guys don’t count, so, zip it. ;-p

Perl quickie!

Junjun, this Perl quickie is for you! Enjoy!
#!/usr/bin/perl
# tr.pl: Implements encryption and decryption using the lame 1-letter forward
# substitution technique.
#
# Copyrights (C) 2005 Ayaz Ahmed Khan
#
# usage: perl tr.pl -e “plain-text”
# perl tr.pl “cipher”
#
## __CODE [...]

Dumped Xfce in favour of KDE.

Um, one last post before I disappear. ;-)
Xfce crapped out on me, again. As much as I like using it, I had to dump it. And, dump I did. After what has been a decade, I am back to using KDE. It is still v3.1 on my laptop, but it will do.

Disappearing for a brief period of time!

Mid-terms start from Monday and will last till Friday of the same week. Unlike other mid-terms, where I would prepare for the papers while sitting next to the laptop connected to the Internet, I have decided this time I will stay away from the Internet throughout the whole mid-terms.
My next blog, then, will most probably [...]

No studies?

I have decided to drop my job. I hadn’t realised, but in hindsight, it seems a part-time job will severely affect my studies, leaving me with no time to do my personal research and book reading and stuff. Farheen and a couple of other folks did advise me the same thing. I guess I [...]

Mom and Dad’s wedding anniversary.

18 September was mom and dad’s wedding anniversary. I got to know in the morning when dad mentioned it over the breakfast table.
Farheen insisted I give them a wedding anniversary present. I didn’t really know what. The day passed on and it was decided that everyone will go out for dinner that night to some [...]

Work, at last!

Contracted a part-time job today. I trust a job will keep me busy with and my mind focused at things I love doing the most.
Sadly, University life is getting lonelier day after another. Everything, except for the things I love doing, just seems pointless these days.

The bad-ass, general-purpose programming language!

To hell with Python. I am back to Perl, the bad-ass, general-purpose programming language.
Knowing more than half of Perl, I figured it would be better to continue with it than to learn a new, different language.

Python!

I started reading the book Dive Into Python yesterday. I figured I already know Perl and a little bit of PHP, why not give Python a try.
So far, my impressions of it are along the lines of a very carefully designed and clean language.