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On track for 100 Things.

Posted on April 14, 2009
Last year, while taking a break from preparing for the California bar exam, I came across David Michael Bruno’s “100 Thing Challenge.” Given that the last few years, I have been acquiring significantly more than the average consumer, I thought it would be a nice thing to do but never really got around to it...

Just passed the IL Bar

Posted on April 06, 2009
I just found out from the Illinois Board of Admissions to the Bar that I passed the Illinois bar exam.

Foods that Promote Nasal/Sinus Health

Posted on March 28, 2009
Do you know whether there are any foods that promote nasal/sinus health? Conversely, are there any foods that should be avoided? I am trying to compile a simple list that I can then share with others. Thanks in advance for your help.

Yes… Twitter is down for about an hour.

Posted on February 14, 2009
Twitter.com is down for some database maintenance.

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Need Recommendations for Media Center PC/Mac

Posted on February 04, 2009
I currently use an AppleTV with Boxee to watch my podcasts and TV shows (via Hulu). However, the AppleTV’s CPU is not powerful enough to process all types of video out there. In fact, because the CPU is so inadequate, Boxee does not support Netflix streaming on the AppleTV platform because it cannot handle Microsoft [...

So You Watched Slumdog Millionaire…

Posted on January 23, 2009
If you were affected by this movie, and you’d like to do something about children like this in Pakistan, please consider making a small, one-time donation to TCF at www.tcfusa.org.

Inauguration Video Streams Failed to Live Up to Expectations

Posted on January 21, 2009
If there was ever a day that the Internet would face a stress-test, the Obama inauguration would have been it. Countless individuals logged on websites such as CNN, MSNBC, and Hulu to watch the live video streams. Unfortunately, every single one of these feeds was unable to keep up with the demand...

MobileMe & Hosted Exchange

Posted on January 14, 2009
In search of the perfect email (as well as contact and task management) solution, I tried out MobileMe. I found MobileMe to be incredibly slow — even with no email in a folder, it would take at least 5 seconds to refresh a page. Plainly unacceptable...

Outlook 2003/2007 & Gmail

Posted on January 12, 2009
I have made several attempts to switch from POP access to IMAP for Gmail but have been unsuccessful. Although GMail IMAP works just fine via Apple Mail, iPhone, and even Thunderbird, it simply does not have good performance through Outlook. Could this be becuase of the various Outlook plug-ins (e...

Back in Chicago

Posted on January 06, 2009
Just a quick post to let you know that we just reached Chicago. Will return phone calls and emails as soon as we can.

Heading back to Chicago in a few hours.

Posted on January 05, 2009
We’ve had a great time visiting our families in Pakistan and Dubai. In a few hours, we will be heading back to the US and will reach Chicago at about 7 PM on Tuesday.

Updating Contacts

Posted on January 03, 2009
In case you’ve received an email from me asking for your updated contact information, don’t worry, it’s not a computer virus. I am just doing my annual address book maintenance.

Testing

Posted on December 04, 2008
Please Ignore this post. This is just a test.

I am now a Registered Patent Attorney

Posted on November 22, 2008
Last night was beyond description. As soon as I got the results, I shared the good news with my immediate family. Then, it was time to make some calls. I called my mentor and friend who guided me all through law school and even put in excellent recommendations to various law firms...

8 Minutes Later…

Posted on November 21, 2008

Anticipation

Posted on November 21, 2008

Songbird - Mozilla’s Open Source Music Player

Posted on November 16, 2008
I was a big fan of Winamp. At the time, nothing played digital media that well with such a small memory footprint. But slowly, I have moved to iTunes. It started out with my first iPod. I used iTunes to sync music with it. iTunes was one of the few free MP3 encoders which used [...

Update from Chicago

Posted on November 15, 2008
It’s been a few days since I posted an entry. Between adjusting to the new marital status, a new career, a new city, and a smaller living space, I just haven’t had the time to write any posts. So here’s an update: Things have generally been good...

LinkedIn is Down for the Next Hour

Posted on November 13, 2008
In case you are struggling with LinkedIn right now, it will be down for the next hour or so.

Liquidation

Posted on September 24, 2008
The first “material possession” to go was the Toyota Scion tC. We (i.e. the wife and I) took it to Carmax and handed it over at a “wholesale” rate. At least we’re not paying for parking and insurance on it now. I have a feeling the other car will soon find its way to Carmax [...

Gearing up for the IL Bar Exam in Feb 2009

Posted on September 05, 2008
The Illinois Bar application requires even more information than the Moral Character application in California. These days, I am trying to compile all this information to be able to register for the upcoming exam in February 2009. Hopefully, this will all be done in the next two or three weeks leaving only the exam to [...

Settling In

Posted on September 05, 2008
I’ve been in Chicago for about a week and things are finally beginning to fall into place. We have an apartment and the household stuff has been delivered. Because we’re living in a very small apartment instead of the place we were originally counting on, we will have to dispose of a lot of our [...

Mathematical Secret to a Happy Marriage?

Posted on August 27, 2008
I’ve been married for a few days and already the tech-nerd in me wants to “engineer” this relationship for “optimal” output. I believe that any relationship sets its course at its outset and that is why I was trying to figure out what type of behavior increases the chances of happiness...

Apartment Hunting

Posted on August 14, 2008
We have narrowed our apartment search down to a couple of places and hopefully one of them will work out. We’re also going to have to sell one or both of our cars and some of our furniture because we will probably have to live in a small, high-rise apartment rather than the larger single [...

Wedding’s Over

Posted on August 11, 2008
The wedding is finally over and today was our first day off after the bar exam. We spent the day browsing the web for apartments and have narrowed it down to a couple of options. Hopefully, we will have this wrapped up before we arrive in Chicago in a couple of weeks.

The Wedding Starts Today

Posted on August 07, 2008
The wedding starts today (August, 7th) with the “Mehndi” ceremony. Will post pictures soon.

Hectic Days & Unpleasant Surprises

Posted on August 05, 2008
No sooner did the bar end (on July 31st) that I had to jump on other pressing tasks. Packing, meeting the in-laws (for the first time), moving, and traveling overseas. There were several unpleasant surprises (a tax penalty!) along the way too. Then, while waiting to board my flight on Monday, I was told that the [...

CA Bar Exam - Day 3

Posted on August 01, 2008
The essays were “okay” again. Nothing too horribly bad. I was feeling fairly good about the whole bar exam until about lunchtime. However, the second performance test really got me. I am fairly certain that the exam was probably not any more difficult than usual...

CA Bar Exam - Day 2

Posted on July 31, 2008
Today we had the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) which is a total of 200 multiple choice questions tested in two 3-hour sessions with 100 questions each. I was hoping to do well enough on this portion to be able to apply it towards the Illinois Bar Exam that I have to take in February 2009...

CA Bar Exam - Day 1: Earthquake!

Posted on July 30, 2008
Yes, we had an earthquake during the bar but fortunately no one was hurt or injured. It happened some time during the third hour. I was running behind on the essay when it started. At first I thought I was just feeling stressed — I was surprised and remember thinking to myself “Am I about [...

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