Finally the month of ramzan is over. Its been a busy ramzan mainly due to the national anthem world record event.
Initially when the idea first came to my mind, i did a little research to see if any such event has taken place any where else in the world. Googling it a bit, made me land on the Guinness World Record website, and where i found that the record for "most people singing a national anthem" was with India, where 104637 sung "vande matram"
My initial thought was that if we do this event on the night of 13th August 2011, just on the night of our independence day, we can find enough people on the streets to break this record.
At that time I was unaware about the counting methods we would required to count and other such requirements that we would need to fulfill for GWR (Guinness World Record)
However, I was confident that we can do it with the help of friends and people as we are nation of 18 carore and only karachi has a population of 2 carore and it was only 1% of karachi population.
I contacted my friend abid beli and put forward this idea to him. He bought the idea instantly and started working towards this project.
Our initial start took from facebook , where we created an event page and started inviting our friends and family to the event page.
At first i was of the opinion that may be not many people would be encouraging of the idea as this was a huge task , gathering more than one lac ten thousand people.
However, with in a couple of days of launching this idea our facebook page had an attending of around 2000 people, average 500 people per day.
People were appreciative of the idea and were praises for the idea.
This realy built up my confidence that this can be done.
A few people were worried about security - understandably , because of the conditions we were going thru. Osama bin laden recently caught from abbotabad and pakistan naval head quareter came under attack.
However, more people started to appear of the facebook event page and it gave us a ray of hope that this can be done.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Pakistan is hopeful of National Anthem Record
Being one of the organizer of Pakistani National Anthem Record, makes me very hopeful that Guinness will approve our evidences and will award us the certificate.
It has been hard word for 3 months and finally it is quiet a relieve that it paid off.
We are now preparing evidences for GWR which we will send shortly - hopefully by Monday 22nd August 2011.
Soon, Inshallah, I will be writing a detailed account into the GWR attempt, the idea, the build up and the final achievement.
For now, been a bit busy in pending work and compiling evidences for GWR.
It has been hard word for 3 months and finally it is quiet a relieve that it paid off.
We are now preparing evidences for GWR which we will send shortly - hopefully by Monday 22nd August 2011.
Soon, Inshallah, I will be writing a detailed account into the GWR attempt, the idea, the build up and the final achievement.
For now, been a bit busy in pending work and compiling evidences for GWR.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
World Record for Most People Singing Pakistan's National Anthem
The most people singing a national anthem simultaneously is 104,637 and was achieved at an event organized by The Art of Living Foundation (India) where participants sang 'Vande Mataram,' India's National Anthem, in Pune, India, on 12 January 2010.
We have contacted GWR to rectify the record as "vande matram" is not a national anthem of India. We are waiting for their reply and correct record details.As National Anthem record was with philipines, with 5000+ people singing their national anthem.
On 13th August at 10pm
We are going to Break 2 records & will Make 1 New record
1. Most People Singing Pakistan's National Anthem
2. Most People Dressing Up Like Quaid e Azam
3. Most People Attending a Facebook Event
Join the cause at our facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212768995421043&view=wall¬if_t=event_wall
We have contacted GWR to rectify the record as "vande matram" is not a national anthem of India. We are waiting for their reply and correct record details.As National Anthem record was with philipines, with 5000+ people singing their national anthem.
On 13th August at 10pm
We are going to Break 2 records & will Make 1 New record
1. Most People Singing Pakistan's National Anthem
2. Most People Dressing Up Like Quaid e Azam
3. Most People Attending a Facebook Event
Join the cause at our facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212768995421043&view=wall¬if_t=event_wall
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Cricket Tourism
Cricket playing nations are reluctant to visit Pakistan due to security concerns.
This is a great loss as people specially youngsters are devoid of watching the cricket match in their own country.
To promote cricket and to keep it alive in Pakistan and to attract youngsters, PCB should open the stadiums for general public for tourism purpose. This may include letting the common man access to the ground, main pavilion and dressing room.
This way he will be able to relate himself to the players in a more closer way. He would be able to visit and see the same dressing room which his star players use during the match. A walk down the dressing room to the main ground and pitch would help him relate and think himself as a player.
PCB should allow access to the trophy room, where people can see and admire the various trophies Pakistan have won.
Access to PCB photo gallery containing photographs of important timelines in the history of Pakistan will be worth watching.
A Hall of fame, containing various records by Pakistani players.
People would be able to visit various sections of the stadium like the press box and the vip / corporate boxes and other areas of the ground, which will inspire them towards the sport.
Special tours of school children can be arranged to let them see the ground in more closer way.
This can be true for other sports of Pakistan like hockey and squash.
Sporting bodies can put an entrance fee and souvenir shop to help promote sports in a more better way.
As a child I always wanted to see the dressing room and the press boxes, and I am sure it would be a great treat for both older and youngers alike to experience the stadiums first hand.
This is a great loss as people specially youngsters are devoid of watching the cricket match in their own country.
To promote cricket and to keep it alive in Pakistan and to attract youngsters, PCB should open the stadiums for general public for tourism purpose. This may include letting the common man access to the ground, main pavilion and dressing room.
This way he will be able to relate himself to the players in a more closer way. He would be able to visit and see the same dressing room which his star players use during the match. A walk down the dressing room to the main ground and pitch would help him relate and think himself as a player.
PCB should allow access to the trophy room, where people can see and admire the various trophies Pakistan have won.
Access to PCB photo gallery containing photographs of important timelines in the history of Pakistan will be worth watching.
A Hall of fame, containing various records by Pakistani players.
People would be able to visit various sections of the stadium like the press box and the vip / corporate boxes and other areas of the ground, which will inspire them towards the sport.
Special tours of school children can be arranged to let them see the ground in more closer way.
This can be true for other sports of Pakistan like hockey and squash.
Sporting bodies can put an entrance fee and souvenir shop to help promote sports in a more better way.
As a child I always wanted to see the dressing room and the press boxes, and I am sure it would be a great treat for both older and youngers alike to experience the stadiums first hand.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
How to unsubscribe google groups mailing list
Recently, in Pakistan many companies have started offering email marketing.
These companies collect email data from various sources, and then start sending emails in bulk.
Majority of these email marketing companies are using google groups to send emails.
Google groups enables them to build an email database and thru these groups then can send bulk emails.
Many people have complained about being added without their consent and receiving several emails on daily basis.
Here is how you can unsubscribe google groups, and make sure that no one can add you again.
Create an account on google at : http://accounts.google.com
You can use your company email address to create an account.
Google will send you verfication email which you should verify.
Once you create the account, you will see the main dashboard page.
Add as many emails as you want in the same account ( usually the ones which are receiving mails from google groups)
Once you have added all the accounts.
Go to dashboard -
At the lower part of the screen there is a link for GROUPS
Click on the link.
On the lower right hand side of the screen, you will find the option for "manage subscription"
Once you click on that link, you will see how many companies / groups have added your emails address.
From here you can select the option to unsbscrib from that mailing list.
Also, from the same option, you can enable the option to :
not to allow any other company to add you
not to send any other google group emails.
The google group spam has been there for a while and many people have been asking me about how to avoid the spam.
I hope this will help to unsubscribe and reduce the spam from google groups.
These companies collect email data from various sources, and then start sending emails in bulk.
Majority of these email marketing companies are using google groups to send emails.
Google groups enables them to build an email database and thru these groups then can send bulk emails.
Many people have complained about being added without their consent and receiving several emails on daily basis.
Here is how you can unsubscribe google groups, and make sure that no one can add you again.
Create an account on google at : http://accounts.google.com
You can use your company email address to create an account.
Google will send you verfication email which you should verify.
Once you create the account, you will see the main dashboard page.
Add as many emails as you want in the same account ( usually the ones which are receiving mails from google groups)
Once you have added all the accounts.
Go to dashboard -
At the lower part of the screen there is a link for GROUPS
Click on the link.
On the lower right hand side of the screen, you will find the option for "manage subscription"
Once you click on that link, you will see how many companies / groups have added your emails address.
From here you can select the option to unsbscrib from that mailing list.
Also, from the same option, you can enable the option to :
not to allow any other company to add you
not to send any other google group emails.
The google group spam has been there for a while and many people have been asking me about how to avoid the spam.
I hope this will help to unsubscribe and reduce the spam from google groups.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
script virus on website - or website getting virus message on google result
In the recent past I have noticed a lot of my hosted websites getting a virus notification on the google search result, and even getting a virus alert when browsing thru firefox or chrome.
I have spent hours to fix this problem , and know that a lot of people must be having the same problem.
The virus doest not only infect html files, but even php , asp , js and css files, and even created some dummy files in the images folder of the website.
this virus is not caught thru norton antivurs, however avg, avast etc are quick to find and block it, but norton continues to be irresponisive to this virus.
i noticed that some script codes are written either in the head tag of the website or after the html tag of the website.
usually we think that hosting server is infected.
No , it is not.
We think someone has hacked the site.
Not really, but yes it is the problem.
Here is my findings and ways of updating it:
It is highly likely that your system has been compromised by a trojan , spyware, which resides in ur system , and whenever you connect to a ftp site , it stores its information and then uses it without you knowing it -
so even when you think that the ftp program is closed, what the virus does is that is uses the username / password information from that ftp program and auto uploads the virus codes into your website.
usually the virus code is in the < HEAD > tag or just after the < HTML > tag closing.
some times its an iframe coding , linking to an external site, and some times its a unix eval script code.
So what you first need to do is clean your system.
changing your ftp passwords wont help as it will keep coming back, no matter what password you keep.
you can check for malware / spy bots thru :
malware bytes - (google the name )this is a good spyware removal tool , and works most of the time.
Once you are sure that the trojan has been removed, the second task is to re-upload the site.
But first you need to delete all the contents on the existing site, even the images and other folders , which you think the virus might not have infected.
delete all html , php , asp , js , css and every other file includng the images folder and others.
May be ask your hosting provider to delete the account and re-create it , or you should delete all the files on your hosting , including images, js and css files.
re-upload the website.
monitor the site for a few days by ftping again and then downloading the files from the server and then checking the code of the website, usually in the head or after html tag.
if the virus tag is still there, then your system is not clean yet.
you seriosuly shoul consider formatting the system and installing a fresh copy.
if the virus is not there, then you are clean.
you need to tell google that your website is clean.
go to webmaster.google.com and create an account,
login and submit your site to google webmaster -
verify that you are the ower of the site , thru several of the ways google suggests that you should verify that you are the rightful owner.
once you have verified that you are the owner, you will see that your site is accepted , but a red head line is shown , showing that the website is infected .
click MAKE A REQUEST link and make a request that your website is clean.
google will remove the virus noice from search results in 2 days time at most.
If your site is infected and you want to remove the virus code from all the files, consider using a "fine / replace " utility.
this will find the text you will write , and replace it with the new code you will write.
I have experiened that the virus code on all the pages is the same, so you will need to use a simple find and replace utility which will find the virus coding from allt he files and delete it .
I have used "simple search / replace" utility , which is pretty fast and easy to use.
You can tell the program which files to search for, and which text to search for and which text to replace it with .
the program then does it in just a minute , so you are saved from going into each file, finding the code and uploading it again.
hope this will help.
I have spent hours to fix this problem , and know that a lot of people must be having the same problem.
The virus doest not only infect html files, but even php , asp , js and css files, and even created some dummy files in the images folder of the website.
this virus is not caught thru norton antivurs, however avg, avast etc are quick to find and block it, but norton continues to be irresponisive to this virus.
i noticed that some script codes are written either in the head tag of the website or after the html tag of the website.
usually we think that hosting server is infected.
No , it is not.
We think someone has hacked the site.
Not really, but yes it is the problem.
Here is my findings and ways of updating it:
It is highly likely that your system has been compromised by a trojan , spyware, which resides in ur system , and whenever you connect to a ftp site , it stores its information and then uses it without you knowing it -
so even when you think that the ftp program is closed, what the virus does is that is uses the username / password information from that ftp program and auto uploads the virus codes into your website.
usually the virus code is in the < HEAD > tag or just after the < HTML > tag closing.
some times its an iframe coding , linking to an external site, and some times its a unix eval script code.
So what you first need to do is clean your system.
changing your ftp passwords wont help as it will keep coming back, no matter what password you keep.
you can check for malware / spy bots thru :
malware bytes - (google the name )this is a good spyware removal tool , and works most of the time.
Once you are sure that the trojan has been removed, the second task is to re-upload the site.
But first you need to delete all the contents on the existing site, even the images and other folders , which you think the virus might not have infected.
delete all html , php , asp , js , css and every other file includng the images folder and others.
May be ask your hosting provider to delete the account and re-create it , or you should delete all the files on your hosting , including images, js and css files.
re-upload the website.
monitor the site for a few days by ftping again and then downloading the files from the server and then checking the code of the website, usually in the head or after html tag.
if the virus tag is still there, then your system is not clean yet.
you seriosuly shoul consider formatting the system and installing a fresh copy.
if the virus is not there, then you are clean.
you need to tell google that your website is clean.
go to webmaster.google.com and create an account,
login and submit your site to google webmaster -
verify that you are the ower of the site , thru several of the ways google suggests that you should verify that you are the rightful owner.
once you have verified that you are the owner, you will see that your site is accepted , but a red head line is shown , showing that the website is infected .
click MAKE A REQUEST link and make a request that your website is clean.
google will remove the virus noice from search results in 2 days time at most.
If your site is infected and you want to remove the virus code from all the files, consider using a "fine / replace " utility.
this will find the text you will write , and replace it with the new code you will write.
I have experiened that the virus code on all the pages is the same, so you will need to use a simple find and replace utility which will find the virus coding from allt he files and delete it .
I have used "simple search / replace" utility , which is pretty fast and easy to use.
You can tell the program which files to search for, and which text to search for and which text to replace it with .
the program then does it in just a minute , so you are saved from going into each file, finding the code and uploading it again.
hope this will help.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Breaking News
In our tv news channel every news qualifies to be a breaking news.
There seems to be no way of selecting or knowing which news is worthy enough to be a breaking news or even a news alert.
Print newspaper cannot put all its news on the first page. The editor and his team has to select which news is good enough to make a first page news, and still which news is worthy enough to be the headline news, and which news is only good enough to give a few words mention.
On our news channels. we see at least fifty breaking news on the dailybasis.
The recent example was the statement of american president barrack obama againt the decision to award the fifa worldcup 2022 to qatar. Our major news channels ran a breaking news ticker, and even some paused their regular telecast to provide this piece of breaking news.
CNN and BBC, which is an american and a british news channel did not run any such breaking news.
We are niether interested in football. Our team is ranked more than 100 in world football ratings.
We are neither interested who hosts the worldcup, we may not go there anyway to watch it live, and we dont even know we would be alive to see the 2022 worldcup.
Our tv channels should take some advise from newspapers and should think which news is good enough to be a breaking news or a news alert or even worth running a slide on the news ticker feed.
There seems to be no way of selecting or knowing which news is worthy enough to be a breaking news or even a news alert.
Print newspaper cannot put all its news on the first page. The editor and his team has to select which news is good enough to make a first page news, and still which news is worthy enough to be the headline news, and which news is only good enough to give a few words mention.
On our news channels. we see at least fifty breaking news on the dailybasis.
The recent example was the statement of american president barrack obama againt the decision to award the fifa worldcup 2022 to qatar. Our major news channels ran a breaking news ticker, and even some paused their regular telecast to provide this piece of breaking news.
CNN and BBC, which is an american and a british news channel did not run any such breaking news.
We are niether interested in football. Our team is ranked more than 100 in world football ratings.
We are neither interested who hosts the worldcup, we may not go there anyway to watch it live, and we dont even know we would be alive to see the 2022 worldcup.
Our tv channels should take some advise from newspapers and should think which news is good enough to be a breaking news or a news alert or even worth running a slide on the news ticker feed.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Preschool, nursery teachers
Through out our life we are thankful to many people who influence us. Teachers being one of them.
We remember the teachers who helped us understand science or math or English etc, but we are rarely thankful or remember the teachers who taught us in our toddler / pre-nursery age.
These were the teachers who taught us to recognize letters, digits, colors, shapes and more. These have been the teachers who have understood us when we were barely able to talk or explain.
They have tolerated us when we have created nuisannace in the class, when we were not even potty trained and would mess up the class, they have shown extreme patience and humbleness.
For all the people we are thankful in life, we barely thank, remember or recognize the teachers who have taught us in pre-school.
These have been the real teachers who laid our foundation, which then helped us excel and progress in life.
I would like to thank all the pre-school teachers, who continue to show extreme patience and resilience in teaching toddlers.
We remember the teachers who helped us understand science or math or English etc, but we are rarely thankful or remember the teachers who taught us in our toddler / pre-nursery age.
These were the teachers who taught us to recognize letters, digits, colors, shapes and more. These have been the teachers who have understood us when we were barely able to talk or explain.
They have tolerated us when we have created nuisannace in the class, when we were not even potty trained and would mess up the class, they have shown extreme patience and humbleness.
For all the people we are thankful in life, we barely thank, remember or recognize the teachers who have taught us in pre-school.
These have been the real teachers who laid our foundation, which then helped us excel and progress in life.
I would like to thank all the pre-school teachers, who continue to show extreme patience and resilience in teaching toddlers.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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