Archive for September, 2008
We are one shaky country
Kuwait is an oil filthy rich country, and that’s pretty much all about it. Every week I read about a 5 year plan to change the face of the country, and make Kuwait a worldwide business centre. We read about big millions and billions being assigned for such projects, those projects we never hear or [...]
Smile Everyone… Pirates of the Caribbean is not a trilogy!
It’s hard to resist your strongest stream of income ehh? Walt Disney have announced they have signed up a deal with Johnny Depp for a fourth installment of the most succesful Disney film ever, Pirates of the Caribbean. This comes in despite of previous announcements from Disney that Pirates of the Caribbean is a trilogy [...]
Another Sea Cable Cut At Alexandria
My friend told me there is another sea cable cut at Alexandria (Again, Egypt), and that explains the extremely unbearable slow internet today. We’ve got some great days ahead of us. But there is one good thing from it. YouTube is technically blocked! Hey.. Is that a conspiracy? Or extreme stupidity? Either ways dark days [...]
Further to the YouTube Blocking Story
Following up on the massive protest yesterday against what seems to be an individual irrational decision, coming from an immature person at the Ministry of Communications, Al-Jarida is providing us more details on the story. My doubts about the letter yesterday turned out to be true. The letter, which seemed very unprofessional sent by a [...]
Kuwait Blocking YouTube
Unfortunately, this letter is not dated, but it was published today and confirmed by ISPs. Brief Translation to English: ” Subject: Blocking an offensive website to Holy Quran and Holy Prophet Reference to the above mentioned subject, and in tribute to the book of God and the holy profit, and in compliance to law [...]
Wataniya Migrating to Eight Digits Today
I’m not sure if they had newspaper ads or anything else, but this is a short notice. Wataniya sent mass SMS to it’s customers last night informing us they are moving to the eight digits plan today (Friday), and we have to add 6 to all the Wataniya numbers. If you saw already, there is [...]
Pirates, now you can “Buy Once, Play Anywhere”
After years of struggling against piracy, the move is finally happening. If you can’t beat them, join them, a wise man once said. And who can beat a free digital download that could play any where I want? The fact that it’s pirates makes some people hesitate, but the majority want. And for those people [...]