Ever need to call someone overseas and you’re not sure what time it is over there?  Is Karachi 9 or 10 hours ahead?  Do they do Daylight Saving in Thailand?  Microsoft Time Zone is a neat little free utility that sits in your system tray and tells you the current time for the cities that you choose.  Requires Windows XP and .NET 1.1 SP1. 

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Here is an excellent article about Threading in C# written by Joseph Albahari.  It gets you started with very basic examples and then goes in depth into topics such as synchronization and locking.  The examples are quite good and very easy to understand.

The article is available in both web and PDF format.

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Here is a follow up on Colbert’s earlier piece about the ongoing feud between Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan :

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Let’s say you want to change the reservation on your flight or you want to talk to a customer service rep about mysterious charges on your cell phone bill.  Most likely you’ll have to cycle through a dozen prompts, often being asked questions that you will be asked later by a customer service rep anyway.  After about 10 minutes of trying to talk to a computer you are finally get through to a real person.  Wouldn’t it be nice to how to talk to a human right away?  Well gethuman.com has a database of companies and how to get through to to a real life customer service representative.

Now if only there was a way to make sure you could connect to someone in the same hemisphere as you.

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Here is another site containing links to tv shows, movies, and cartoons.  For Bollywood fans there is also a collection of Indian movies on this site as well:

http://www.peekvid.com

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Here is the nasheed and the lyrics from the video that I posted yesterday:

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Ya Adheeman (Oh Most Magnificent!)

My soul is brightened by a light in my heart
When I praised God of mankind
And my soul is cheered up and the tears were flowing
Oh God! guide my heart to reason
In the tranquility of the night I pray during worshiping
While the black darkness is all around me
Oh Kind! Oh Most Merciful! Oh Most Forbearing!
Oh Kind! Your gifts are endless
Oh All-Hearing! Oh Answerer! Oh Most Magnificent!
Oh Creator of the strong predatory animals! Guide me
Guide me to truth, God
I depend on your guidance today
Oh God of the universe! You are my aid
You are the refuge of man in the afterworld
Here I am God, asking your forgiveness
Forgive me and grant me my wish

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A nice little video about what Islam really teaches.  The nasheed in the background is worth listening to:

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Stephen Colbert takes sides on the Amitabh vs Shahrukh Khan feud:

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This three-part documentary series broadcast on the BBC describes how two polar opposite ideologies were born, developed, and gained pace in parallel and how they led to the current political climate.

Part 1:  “Baby It’s Cold Outside”
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Part 2: “The Phantom Victory”
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Part 3: “The Shadows in the Cave”
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Discovery Channel documentary about the history of the iPod.

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