Excerpt from Dale Carnegie’s “How to make friends and Influence People” Often parents are tempted to criticize their children. You would expect me to say “don’t.” But I will not, I am merely going to say, “Before you criticize them, read one of the classics of American journalism, ‘Father Forgets.’ ” It originally appeared as [...]
A Ghazal that touches your heart everytime you read it by Irfan Abid. You can read more poetry by Abid Sahib, posted all over the web. I haven’t talked to him in a while, but I have always wanted to archive this Ghazal somewhere.. and what better place to put it than my own blog. [...]
So I have been bitten by the photography bug recently. Tried my hands on an Xsi last year during the Montreal Canadiens’ training camp and missed playing with a DSLR so much that went out and got myself a Canon T3i (600D). Entry level or not, I simply love that camera. I got it with [...]
In October, 2010, the Bilz & Kashif released a video for the song “Tera Nasha” from their latest album “Breaking Barriers” available on iTunes. The songs lyrics (the Hindi part) written by me is presented here in this post. The English parts were written by Kashif himself and they are included here as well. Enjoy [...]
The Bilz & Kashif recently released the video for Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na, another song for which the hindi lyrics were written by yours truly. The English lyrics, as usual, are written by Kashif himself. Enjoy the video along with the lyrics: Lyrics VERSE 1 Kabhi haan kabhi na karti hai Bol zara ye chakkar [...]
With Asterisk, it’s easy to register the IAX phones from an outside location when your asterisk server is behind a router/firewall, but doing the same with SIP requires a bit of work. It may or may not work out of box. Here is a quick guide to get you started if you are attempting to [...]
So I have an asterisk (Trixbox Asterisk 1.2.21) installed and working very well with a Sangoma A200 4 port FXO card and a Sangoma A102D 2 port T1/E1 card. Due to some cost-cutting, we got rid of the PRI connected to the A102 and opted to put that FXO card in use. After getting a [...]
Problem: Show a “More From this author” Block on nodes of specific types without using the $uid variable provided by Drupal. Let’s assume that you don’t want to use the “Posted by: username” on your stories/nodes, but rather you have your own CCK field setup to display the name of the author. Now this CCK [...]
Here are the lyrics from the song Suno, sung by MasterD of Bilzmusic, part of their album Breaking Barriers (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/breaking-barriers/id364930732) also written by me. Suno suno meri sadaa, mahkii huii, hai pyaar ki sargam suno kahtii hai kyaa, bheegii hawaa, zara sun to lo sanam saahiloN pe haiN nazaare ye haseeN…naachne lagin hain maujein bhi [...]
Now that Bilzmusic have released their album “Breaking Barriers” {link to itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/breaking-barriers/id364930732} I figured I’d post some of the lyrics of the songs that I have written Here’s one: Tanhaii haaye sulagati tanhaai betaabiyaaN javaaN afsurda afsurda aaNkheiN DhooNDheiN tere nishaaN meri muhabbat, meri ibaadat meri vafaa zaKhm bane dil ke armaaN raNg yahaaN [...]