Click on the parts to read the previous articles in this series: Part I, Part II Now that we know how to weigh the words according to their sounds, it’s time to move on and see how we can fit these words in a meter. Lets start off with the answers to the breakdowns of [...]
Click to read the previous article in this series: Part I Part II of the series: We will talk about what do we mean when we discuss the weight of a word in Urdu poetry. Before we begin, let me clarify something, I have no pure technical knowledge of how the meter works in Urdu [...]
While there are several good articles out on the internet about the technicalities of ghazals and how to ensure that you are writing in meter, I thought I might as well add something myself as despite sending a lot of friends to those links, I find that people understand better when I explain it to [...]
I think: We are slaves of habits and desires and it takes a really strong will to change these habits or to overcome these desires. Incidently, India lost. Pathetic display of course, but they didn’t deserve to get to the next round in World-Cup, not after you lose against Bangladesh in the first match. Not [...]
So we lost against Bangladesh, yes it was really disheartning, it was unexpected, it took all of us by surprise. Did we play bad? Its easy to blame everything on our team’s faults but lets give some credit to the young Bangla players who outperformed an experienced Indian team (and no, our team is not [...]
In case you ever need to convert one of those flash videos that you find all over the web these days (for example on youtube.com), you can use your linux box very easily to do so. But first, download the .flv (flash video) file from the website. To do that, use “unplug” addon for Mozilla [...]
Problem: Find records that match within two tables, TableA and TableB. Solution: Use a simple SELECT statement with a defined WHERE clause Lets assume that TableA and TableB have a field called “Phone” which contains the phone number of the clients and these numbers are obviously stored in a unique index. So what we are [...]
Problem: TableA contains a customer database TableB contains new names that you want to match against your customer database and remove all the names that are already customers. Solution: Use “LEFT JOIN” property of mysql to carry out the task. Lets assume that TableA and TableB have a field called “Phone” which contains the phone [...]