Being friends, best ones...! :/

Why do people assume on their own that you could be their best friend, and that you will accept to be their best friend? People please!!!You never "make" a best friend. You just discover it. Some time, somewhere along the path of life, you come across people that you ignore on first glance, but with subsequent interactions, you become best friends with them without even noticing it.So stop ...

TweetDeck: A very nice twitter client for Linux and other platforms

I was in search of a good desktop client for twitter for Linux platform for the past few days, and finally, I got one that is actually very usable, TweetDeck. It is an Adobe Air application so you need to have that installed in order for it to work.

Kernel module basics and calculating offset of kernel data structures' elements

For a project I am working on nowadays, I need to calculate the offsets of many of Linux kernel's data structures' member elements. For a second I thought it would be as simple as including the required header file that defines the structure into my user level code, and trying offsetof(3) on its member elements. But it was more complicated than that.

My GSoC 2009 Blog

http://shuaibatgsoc2009.blogspot.comA place to put my progress and findings regarding my summer project with Python Software Foundation.

Just loved this quote

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

Nice photo effects

Ok, funphotobox.com is amazing.

Google Chrome's Annoyances

Okay, I like Google Chrome for loads of things. Its speed, elegant interface (most part of it :/), and excellent integration with Google Search being the top most. But it has some really bad parts too that makes me hate it.

Working on my own startup

For the past few days, I've been working on my own Web 2.0 (a term gradually becoming extinct) startup. Nothing big, just a hobby project. But as it is said, nine out of ten startups fail. Which means, one of them succeeds. Now mine could be either amongst the nine, or the single odd one out, at the very first try. But either way, I had to take the first step.Details will follow once it is ...

"The Mentalist" TV Show; A review

Besides having quite a number of disadvantages, one of the good thing about living in a hostel with the rest of your college mates is that someone always has something fun and exciting to share. One of the things being shared most at our place is people's favorite T.V. shows. And the new one in is a T.V. show called "The Mentalist".

My cooking experience

Some time back, before the start of the Ramadhan (2008), I got to live on my own with a bunch of foreign friends, at a foreign place, where getting food wasn't just yet another daily routine thing. I had to carefully choose what to buy and eat as there were issues of halal/haram.