Computers, Birds and Working Towards the Straight Path

As of April 11th:

Here’s what’s been happening. I’ve had major computer problems so I have been trying really hard to get that fixed. Plus, I’ve had so many things on my mind lately, I’ve had no time whatsoever to even think about blogging. I apologize for that.

Regarding my wisdom tooth, alhumdulillah, it seems to be healing well. Initially a lot of food was getting stuck in there but the hole seems to have become more shallow now although I haven’t looked at it all that carefully but I don’t feel like things are piling up. So, that’s good. But there’s definitely still a hole.

I still am getting birds. I had started getting a different pair of bulbuls. These ones have white cheeks and a yellow bottom. And guess what? They had twins! MashaAllah. The babies are totally cute! They are greyish brown and slightly smaller than their parents. Slightly bigger than a sparrow. They’ve become quite friendly and don’t run away when they see me. Last week they were begging their parents to feed them and this week, they come to my balcony and start tweeting. I open the door and throw crushed biscuits and they gobble it up. They come really close. About a foot away from me. MashaAllah.

Other than that, I’ve been trying to make some positive changes in my life such as:
1. Try to pray tahajjud regularly. I can’t wake up to pray it so it’s a good thing, it’s okay to stay and pray it and sleep. Although, that’s pretty exhausting as well.
2. Reciting Surah Kahaf every Friday.

InshaAllah, I’ll post details on that

Google Wave Bots

I wonder how many people are waving. *waves back* lol.

I haven’t used it as much as I hoped I would. Everyone I know seems to have the same issue. Probably the worst thing about GW (doesn’t that remind people of Bush? ) is that it takes a while to load and frequently hangs.

Back to the point. A list of bots one can use in GWave (sounds better than GW, no?):

http://googlewavebots.info/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Wave_Group_Bots

Catch The Google Wave!

Google has released a beta version of the Google wave which is supposed to be the way email should be used in today’s generation/time. I didn’t want to sit an watch an hour plus long official video about how the program works. So, instead I found a really short and simple one. I love how they try to explain it. Great for people who aren’t really tech savvy.

Watch and enjoy!

Only issue is, just like how gmail was available to only a few people initially, google wave has been launched with the same idea. To test the program with a limited number of people and let them invite their friends to test it. Obviously, you can’t test the google wave if you have no one to work with. The invites are going real fast so if you can get someone to send you one, grab it. Strangely enough, people were buying invites on e-bay! Again the issue is, once you get an invite, you may not be able to invite anyone else so you have to know people who already have it to be able to use it with them. So, one can either hold off on using it and let the people who really need it try it first. Or you can grab an invite and and wait till google allows you to invite your friends & co-workers.

And if you have an invite to spare, invite me as well.