At least one person has told me that listening to me is often times like reading hypertext; what with stuff popping up and the listener having to keep track of stuff and all that. And I have to admit, it certainly feels at times that my mind is working in hypermedia. So I figure two things: Firstly, I have to watch that I don't try to explain three things at the same time to the same person. Secondly, I am counting upon The World Wide Web being a natural medium for me. A medium that will help me organize my thoughts, plans and activities and get to that ideal state I have been working towards. So here goes!

What's in it for you? Well, I have some very varied interests and you just might find something that you like and/or want to be part of and/or just wanna laugh at. [See what I mean about talking in hypermedia?]

Me

Let's see now ... I

• work at Mentor Graphics Corporation;
• just got my MS in Technical Communication from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York;
• got my bachelor's in Computer Systems Engineering from the NED University of Engineering and Technology, in Karachi, Pakistan;
• am a 2nd generation Pakistani of Arab extraction, Indian origin and Nigerian birth;
• am married to 'Mo: ;
• am pretty active in PakSA@RPI, the Pakistan Students Association at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• am a Muslim who keeps getting drawn to the metaphysical - esoteric, if you will - manifestation of the dheen, or way of life, that is Islam. The best link I have found on our religion is at the Virtual Library at the University of Freiburg. For the two canons of Islam -- the Qur'an or Book of Revelations to The Prophet and the Hadith or Tradition of the Prophet -- I refer to the Home Page of Ahmed al-Shelby.

• A list of real Pakistani companies on the Web. A wee out of date now, but it has a link to Yahoo's list on the same topic.
• NED University of Engineering & Technology home page: as you might have noticed above, I have initiated an alumni (and student) effort to give our alma mater a cyber-home. [This page was the third page listed in for any Pakistani educational institution. Got pulled when this account was offline for a short while. Haven't had any luck since - over a year now - in getting it back in. Any suggestions?]
• Human Rights Committee home page of the Pakistan Students Association International (PSAI).
• War Against Rape: the home page of a Pakistani Human Rights NGO I am a member of.
• Investing With a Conscience: a page devoted to interest-free investing, the Islamic way. (This resource was being developed in collaboration with Faisal Siddiqi. I am out of touch with him and promise to update it when we get back in touch)
• Amitabh Bachchan, The Fan Club.
• The PAYNDOO P-HILES: giving a home to an idea one of my friends had.
• The Dhaisee Page: "Dhais" is the word used by about a fifth of humanity to mean "country" or simply, home ... an idea in the embryonic stage.

• Some Humor
• Today in History
• Some Search Engines:
• Yahoo is where people usually go to search for web pages. You can just use this Search form ... 
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• ... or go to Open Text, Alta Vista, Lycos, WebCrawler - or look at a list of search engines at Yahoo.
• DejaNews is a Usenet Search facility - that is, it lets you search the whole of USENET for stuff.
• Four 11 is the place to go if you want to find someone's e-mail address.
• I hear there is a site that lets you search for phone numbers - and I don't mean the yellow pages, thank you. If you know it, drop me a line please.
• My home page is listed at
• KRISCHAK's wonderful list. (I am at #232.) While you are there, you might want to look at his (?) home page.