Discoverability & Visibility

Out of sheer boredom (and recalling the opening scenes of Wanted) I started typing my name in Google. The auto suggest feature of Google took me surprise. Below is a screenshot of Google’s suggestions. Obviously, searching for anas imtiaz, the first result was this website. Not only this blog, but my facebook profile, twitter, jaiku and imperial blog also ranked hihgly in this search...
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My Highs & Lows of 2008

What’s good about a new year? To be honest, nothing is good about it given the extra effort needed at the time of speech delivery to make sure you don’t say next year to things which are suddenly going to happen in this year and the added mental effort of making sure you jot the correct digit when writing down the date. However, the new year, or end of an year can serve as a benchmark...
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One Year Old!

Shuffling through my previous posts to find when exactly I started blogging on this platform, I found to my utter surprise, that my first post is dated 27th December 2007. I’d like to thank the government of Pakistan for having a national holiday for my blog’s birthday celebrations I had been blogging on and off on other platforms earlier, but serious blogging began on this historic...
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Story Of THAT Car!

CAUTION: This is a long story written out of extreme boredom AND I suck at story-telling. It was a Thursday night and time was not on our side, so wasn’t luck. Things were getting tougher as the deadline drew near. As I recall with my bad memory, only a week was left to finish off the task before flying out. There was uncertainty about the end but the determination was rock-solid. We...
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October 8: Today In History

October 8, 2005 Earthquake in Kashmir kills approximately 80,000 people October 8, 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected the governor of California October 8, 1998 House of Representatives approves impeachment inquiry of President Clinton October 8, 1986 Anas Imtiaz is born!!!!! October 8, 1980 U.S.S.R. and Syria sign peace treaty October 8, 1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test October 8, 1971...
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