Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Is It Out Or Not Out? Or Both? Ed Joyce



You must have watched that video where a batsman scored 20 runs off just 1 ball. Of course the bowler kept on bowling no balls and the batsman utilized the free hit each time. But this time it is another thing that has the entire cricketing world confused. Was Ed Joyce out or not? He himself believes that it was a not-out. 


Who Are The Most Stylish Pakistani Politicians



Fashion has nothing to do with the Pakistani politicians. Put another way, they only have the knack for making money and use the common public to their own advantages and vested interests. Despite being well-fed and well-resourced, fashion does not come down to them easily.

Nadia Hussain, the super Pakistani model, believes that there are only two politicians who have some fashion some and the list includes Imran Khan, the PTI cheif and Hina Rabbani Khar, the ex foreign minister of Pakistan. 

While she may be right in her estimation but we know for sure that fashion is and will never be the priority of our politicians. Fame and wealth can be their main motives. 



A Muslim Facebook in the making?

A Muslim Facebook alternative is in the making. 
A group of Muslim businessmen from around the world, especially gulf countries have been working on a new initiative and this one is going to take the Internet by storm, as they claim. A Muslim version of Facebook, which has been named Muslim Face, will be launched in coming months.


They founders of the social media platform have tentatively decided to launch the Muslim Face in coming months, as the creators plan to experiment it with just a thousand users at the start.

The origin of Muslim Name is Middle East and it will entertain people in several languages. Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Turkish will be among the languages people will be able to use on Muslim Face. 

South African cricketer Hashim Amla surprises little fan

Hashim Amla is one of the best batsmen in the world and South Africa are proud of him, but he is the best off field too.


One of Hashim Amla's fans wanted to meet him and play with him a little. Hashim went ahead with that and made his dream come true. The 11-year-old boy named Kieron Adams wished to meet South African Cricket squad, especially batsman Hashim Amla.

When Amla and other team members learned of the little fan through one of interviews where he expressed his love for cricket and support for Proteas, they could not wait to go meet the cricket-crazy boy.

Amla, AB De Villiers and Dale Steyn all piled up in a van and drove to Adams's house. To give the boy the biggest surprise of his life, they reached his house during the time he was out. Now with three of South African cricket icons seated in comfortable sofas at Adams's house, the passion and hype was easy to feel.


Internet Users! Be Cautious

Here is a detailed CNN Report on this 

Scientists occasionally add leap second to universal time in order to correlate the day with mean solar time and this has applied since 1972. Though there is nothing new about leap time addition to the time of day (which is typically 24 hours), the use of Internet is though to be dangerous this coming June. Experts have talked about it  in detail and here I am sharing a CNN report for you people to read.

It is a very insightful piece about leap second and its possible threat to the Internet. Will Internet  be impacted by leap second or not, it remains to be seen. Experts, however say, it will be wise to avoid using the Internet for a few seconds, especially at 12.