Tag: Teeth Maestro
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Military Inc.: Banned in Pakistan
The latest book Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy, written by Ayesha Siddiqa is a tell all narration of the highly profitable company called The Pakistan Army. The book estimates the militarys share of the economy at over 200 billion rupees, besides owning 11.58 percent of all state land. Military Inc. was due to go…
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Twitter in Pakistan
There are so many web products being launched on a daily basis that it becomes mind boggling to filter through the good and the bad. Twitter is most definitely not a new name to the internet and has literally captured the imagination of millions of mobile and internet users around the globe. Quite surprisingly it…
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Sifting facts from Fiction
By Ansar Abbasi Every brick of President General Pervez Musharraf’s palatial Pindi office vividly reminisces about what the chief justice of Pakistan had been confronted with on March 9, adding a new chapter to our chequered history. The pleasant outside environment did not match the tense moments behind the closed doors of Musharraf’s camp office.…
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Teeth Maestro Open to Guest Bloggers
Teeth Maestro’s blog has been running on the steam generated by its owner Dr. Awab Alvi for over two years and counting, I remain grateful to the hundreds and thousands who have visited this blog to read my ramblings on wide variety of topics, this blog continues to be updated simply for the love of…
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Supreme Court questions Malik’s Ban
Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has questioned the life-ban imposed by Pakistan Cricket Board on Saleem Malik back in 2000. The court has for now delayed the hearing for a week upon the request of the PCB lawyer as he would need a little time to provide sufficient proof as to…
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Teeth Maestro’s Blog Stats
There is little doubt that statistics are the bread and butter for any blogger, practically all bloggers have an addiction to look at their statistics page on a daily basis to see the rise and fall of their blog readership. For many bloggers these stats are probably the closely guarded secrets and I too have…
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
All cricketing fans across the world must have finally reached some closure after the ball tampering fiasco at The Oval a few months back. Strong rumors reports to the extent that Cricinfo, a leading website on cricketing news, have announced that the ICC is seriously contemplating on removing Darell Hair from adjudicating any international cricket…
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Stone Age… Revisited
A few days back on Sept 23rd 2006 I wrote an article on OhMyNews.com titled – Pakistanis Unsurprised by the ‘Stone Age’ Remark, was an altered version to the post I made on my own blog a few days prior – Bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age, or else. where I discussed the threat made…
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Stunning Video Choreography
A music video produced by the band OK Go for their track Here it goes Again. Its truly some amazing choreography to pull this stunt out and simply watching the video makes me wanna run and buy a couple of treadmills and try this at home, most likely I would fall flat on my face…
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Brush’em upgrade
All techies like to name their upgrades in a funky manner, it would be idiotic for me to consider myself a techie so I settle for being a simple dentist hence this upgrade is titled v Brush’em. So I present to you the new look of my blog in the next few days I will…
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100,000 Satisfied Customers
Today can be marked as a major milestone for this blog, it has little meaning to anyone apart from creating a milestone for myself. Teeth Maestro’s Blog has crossed the landmark of having served 100,000 unique visitors on this website (since May 2005). Teeth Maestro previously existed on blogspot until the migration to my own…
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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…
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Letter to Comment Spammers
Sir or Thing I have no idea if you are actually human or just an idiotic computer trying to generate traffic on my blog. If you god forbid happen to be a real human a person with an actual brain then I am sorry I simply can’t help you with your mental condition as for…
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She Magazine Pilfers from Teeth Maestro
A month back I had made a post on Karachi Metblog discussing a TV show on AAJ.TV called Begum Nawazish Ali. The review a month back was a sarcastic reivew of the show but now a month later if you pick up the October issue of She Magazine and turn to page 77 you could…
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Malaysians Vote on Astronauts
Malaysia’s Science Minister plans to make the country’s space programme a truly interactive experience by allowing all Malaysians to elect a Malaysian astronaut to visit the International Space Station along with the Russian team in 2007. There is a pool of 11,000 candidates aspiring for the slot and it may truly become a cut throat…