Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on January 11, 2009
Dawn reports:
KARACHI: Book fair at NED varsity
KARACHI, Jan 10: A fair of books at the NED University of Engineering and Technology will begin from Jan 12. Twenty-eight prominent book sellers and publishers will participate in the three-day fair. Textbooks, reference material and other publications will be available at a discount price of 15 to 20 per cent.—APP
I can’t find anything about this on the NED website. If you can provide any more information (times, names of publishers, what kinds of books, what kinds of prices, etc.), please email me. And I wonder if any alumni can contribute thoughts, memories, pictures, of book fairs past.
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on March 17, 2008
We’ve been on hiatus here at NED Nama for a bit. It had to do with our Editor having some catching up to do, and some organizational work to be done.
The good news, as you will see in the immediate future includes:
- NED Alumni Association of Silicon Valley (NEDians SV) is being formalized as an organization.
- NED Alumni Association of Southern California (NEDAASC) is coming to fruition, too.
- Two academic competitions are being held at NED (TechElite08 and SPEC2008), and which we’re hoping to get regular updates on.
- … more and regular information that you, our readers will send in…right?
Posted by Sabahat (iFaqeer) on August 10, 2007
It is amazing what one can do with technology. But that’s such a pita huwa statement, no? It definitely sounds that way…until you run into something that’s really amazing. Here’s one I still find mindboggling–and I am user knerd par excellence:
Just a few years ago, most of us alumni would have no clue what our alma looks like in the present; what new buildings have come up, how big the Girls Common Room has gotten, and so on. Maybe one visit in decades to show the significant other, or the kids where you went to college–but how many of us have done even that?
Enter Wikimapia.
Most of us have used Maps.Google.com, right? And some have even used websites that use the database behind Google Maps to give you directions, and so on. But Wikimapia is an attempt to take that database and have everybody mark up every inch of our planet with what is where. [And do click on it to get a full-window view.]
