Yayy, I’m back! (did you miss me??)

It’s kind of crazy to think that Salim’s World turned 10 years old this year. Looking back on how the web, information access and computing in general has changed in this time is pretty mind blowing. The rise of social networking, video, Apple, broadband, mobile broadband, mobile in general etc etc etc have changed so much about how we live our lives… and you know what? Salim’s World itself has changed very little.

There is so much cool stuff that I have wanted to do with the site and since there is no way that I can keep up with the times, I am turning over the underpinnings for the site to Blogger. Am hoping that this will allow me to keep my same look and feel (or maybe not, probably time to change that too!) while taking advantage of the work that the good folks at Google do. Moreover, the main blog page was really the only one which was getting updated. Looking at the rest…

  • About Me – as the page stated, is years out of date… think blogger provides a standard way to publish this information now… or just find me on Facebook…
  • Pictures – pretty much all of our pictures end up on Mumtaz’s Facebook account
  • Family Tree – much of this work has moved to Geni.com. The web is now a far unfriendlier place than when I started this site. I have received many (quite justified) concerns of too much information shared along with the fact that the tree hasn’t been updated in forever and a day…
  • Khajanchi Wedding – sorry buddy, all good things must come to an end. Will try to find a better place to put this site but will probably have to deal with the fact that this site is no more
  • Guest Book – let’s be honest, this hasn’t worked in years… not missed
  • Misc – I actually had some pretty awesome pages here… will try to put them back up at some point

As these changes are being made, please disregard the broken links and general mess. I am doing this for you, my adoring, regular readers… you are still out there, right? Dammit, who let all these crickets in here? I can’t hear my adoring fans over that din of crickets! Wait, where did that tumbleweed come from… and is that a cobweb…?

Pro-littering rules???

I am sure I must be misunderstanding this but it looks like this sign says it is ok to throw bottles out the window:

weird sign on train

I wouldn’t have even commented except I saw this sign:

weird sign on train 2

on the way back from Berlin to Prague, which seems so say to not throw trash in the trash cans!

Women of the world

I will share what I have learned on my travels speaking the international language of love (it’s English, btw. It conveniently happens to be the international language of everything else too…).

Polish women are all angry. Every single one.

Czech women really seem to like wearing dead animal furs.

Uzbeki women have questionable taste (this is based on the fact that the one I met was really really into Hindi movies… yes, I said it! What’re ya going to do about it!?!)

I think only the giant German women ever leave the country. The sample here seems quite normal sized unlike their giant foreign traveling bretheren.

Finally Canadian women… hehe, I’m not going anywhere *near* that one!!!

Just got to Berlin

If Polish is the language without vowels, then German is the language without spaces… how freaking long are the words here?? There seems to be a 3 syllable minimum on all written words!