Seems like a really positive movement in our tech crowd, recently ‘The Interaction Design Center’ organized ‘World Usability Day’ at the UMT campus here in Lahore. When i heard about the event i was a bit surprised as i never expected “A World Usability day” here in Pakistan, but really happy to know that it did.

I reached the event at around 10:20, expected start time was 10am but it started a little late so i was technically not a late comer. There was a tremendous energy and excitement in the people who organized it and the people who came to attended it. Imran hussain started off the event with a welcome note and Adnan was the official host and i guess the brains behind the event. Google sponsored the event along with a live international video link with the creator of Google MapMaker (Lalit Ktaragadda at Google India), quite interesting and well prepared presentation. The biggest turn off was the speech by the Dr. Tanvir Iqbal from UET lahore, seemed like he wasn’t prepared or was not well guided on what the actual event was about.

I couldn’t hang around to attend the complete event so i skipped off during the tea break as i had a bunch of tickets to resolve and work to look after but over all i really appreciate the effort, it a positive movement and i hope in future we get to see and attend many such tech conferences in Lahore.

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• University of Management Sciences

Received an interesting email from a friend who is in HR, so check out what kind of an Employee or Worker you are on the bases of your Zodiac signs :

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Aquarius Employee Profile (january 21 – february 19)
The Aquarius employee can’t tolerate unfairness in the office. Hair brained schemes will get the positive attention they deserve if an Aquarian has anything to do with it. They’ll try to help everyone see the good side of a bad situation if it’s the last thing that they do. They are so smart-they can’t help but hold management in disdain if they feel that they are being unfair and unintelligent. It isn’t that they are overly ambitious and think they could be doing a better job- just that they think people in power should know better. Most Aquarius workers are still looking for themselves and will want to try their hand at a variety of jobs in the workplace. Whatever they are doing, they will do conscientiously. They usually have strict personal codes that include a strong work ethic.Their bright, off-beat intelligence, and trustwothiness will typically gain them many friends-in and out of work. Beneath that sometimes odd-ball behavior is solid, concrete thinking and sensitivity to co-workers. Keep your smart Aquarius co-worker happy by giving them plenty of opportunity to learn news kills. Raises are less important to them. No amount of money will make it worth their while to stay in a stagnant position. Don’t let them get too bored or they will simply find another job as easily as they found this one-their genius is easy to spot.

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