Teeth Maestro

Category: Technology

  • PTA Blocks FIVE more Websites

    In a recent development, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has gone further encroaching upon the the free and open Internet to block five more websites that are offending the breurcats in Islamanad. This letter was issued on the 25th of April and required all the ISP’s to comply within 24 hours. It seems as if the…

  • Tom Peters and his Presentation Blunders

    The Excellence Edge was seminar recently telecasted by Luminary Series as a series of teleconferences on promoting Management Excellence. The show was transmitted to over 60 countries worldwide and an anticipated viewer estimates was above a million viewers to have watched this show. The featured speakers were Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham & Tom Peters, I…

  • The Excellence Edge

    Yesterday I had the chance to sit in on the live telecast speech by the three top leadership consultant gurus Ken Blanchard, Marcus Buckingham and Tom Peters. It was an event organized by Octara which took the initiative to host the satellite up-link at Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. The telecast started at 8:00pm sharp and…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace concludes

    The final day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace ended with probably one of the best technical sessions of the event, it was titled “Internet Security” and was conducted by Ethan Zuckerman of Berkman Center / Global Voices, and Nart Villeneuve of Citizenlab. Both were well versed in the security aspects and gave an…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace (Day 2)

    The second day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace was quite interesting to say the least, which covered issues of technology and legal implications on free speech movement Issac Mao, hails from China and talked about some very interesting ways how the Chinese by pass the GFW (Great Fire Wall). The authorities maintain a…

  • Silencing the Pakistani Blogs

    On the start of the second day of the Freedom of Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference, I was chosen to project the efforts of Don’t Block the Blog. The PowerPoint presentation is Silencing the Pakistani Blogs PowerPoint presentation (1 MB), an audiopodcast is available in MP3 here(6.4 MB), while I also enclose the entire text…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace (Day 1)

    Today concluded the first day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace Conference. A large number of speakers from across the region spoke at lengths highlighting the battles of free speech being fought within their own countries. Check out the presentations and video clips of all the sessions at Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace Blog.…

  • Free Expression Conference in Manila

    Southeast Asian Press Alliance has organized a conference titled Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace and is being hosted at the Asian Management Institute in Manila, Philippines. I have been invited to represent the Don’t Block the Blog campaign in the conference and will be giving a speech titled “Silencing the Pakistani Blogs” which will show…

  • Lasik@Home

    Just found this interesting link for a device available to preform at home Lasik Surgery available for a cheap price of $99 ‘excluding’ S&H. Personally I would not advise anyone to even contemplate of getting a 20/20 vision by this device, click the image to the right to see the simple 4-step instruction sheet that…

  • Gum That Makes Brushing Obsolete

    Lets not go jumping around throwing away your toothbrushes just yet, but the future holds a new product in development that could change your nightly ritual forever and find its away into your medicine cabinet one fine day The Wrigley Gum Company has paired up with the U.S. military to create an anti-bacterial chewing gum…

  • Pakistan Censors Knowledge for Seven Hours

    In a very surprising development the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority which controls the Pakistan Internet Exchange had blocked access to the entire Wikipedia.org domain at around 1:00pm on 31st March. Immediately the AGABBIP group and the Don’t Block the Blog team were set into motion. The ban was not localized to any single ISP but was…

  • Cough – Cough – I’m Back

    For the past week my website was undergoing a series of heart attacks and strokes…. My previous hosting solution was up for renewal, though I was satisfied with them for the past 4 years, but in the mean time I had acquired a whole bunch of new domains which surprisingly totalled to be a good…

  • Slap the Block

    The creative mind of a few local Pakistanis Yasir Memon & Naveed – has created this nifty utility for those individuals in Pakistan stuck behind the Government supported censorship on our Internet The way this service works is that you can simply go-to http://www.pkblogs.com/blogname where blogname is “blogname.blogspot.com” Alternatively head on over to www.pkblogs.com –…

  • Don’t Block the Blog – 2

    Just a progress report on the Censorship Campaign organized by our own administration. I am embarrassed to point out that the blockage still exists, it now can be understood as NOT an innocent mistake but more as an organized ploy to deliberately block all blogs. No progress has been made to alleviate this blockage and…

  • Don’t Block the Blog

    As I write this post on the morning of 4th March 2006 all sub domains of Blogspot.com carrying thousands of free blogs continue to remain censored for all internet users in Pakistan. The mess all started on the 27th of February when the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued instructions to all ISP to block all websites…