Archive for September, 2008
Bill Gates, I feel sorry for you… I really do
When Bill Gates annouced his retirement from day-to-day work from Microsoft, I really felt the smartness he has. Going away from the company while still in shape, being able to monitor and direct from far is a pretty smart thing to do. Compare that to Apple, which is just another name for Steve Jobs and [...]
Developer’s Diaries – It’s (not) good to refresh
A developer has his days where he sets tough targets and miletones to deliver. Tonight was such a night for me. I had windows open all over, working on multiple things simultaneously. I did a small update to one of my sites in the header, tested fine, upload to production. Only to find out [...]
Google fixes Chrome vulnerabilities
Google Chrome was released in Beta last week, and really made a serious buzz in the web. Some say it’s nothing serious, other presume this will make the base for future web browsers. I incline with the latter opinion. Either ways, one thing all agree upon is the browser speed. Some new experience lies in [...]
Bank Working Hours in Ramadan
Most people these days would have something to do with banks. During Ramadan, most places have shorter working hours, and this is absolutely normal. Banks are private sector, and they hold a critical role however in people’s lives, so such companies should be careful when deciding about their hours. Unfortunately, it became a trend [...]
International SMS Scam
Recently a phenomenon started to spread, at least in Kuwait, of receiving international SMS Scams telling you you have won in a draw, Mercedes in my case. My brother won a 250,000 amount I guess. Frankly, I was a bit jealous from him being younger and bigger winner. Email scamming is cheap and easy, [...]
YouTube is sorry “this video is no longer available.”
YouTube for most parts of the world is the magical mirror on the web. You tell it what you want, and it will show it. I stopped downloading clips to my computer but in rare cases, cause they are all on the net ready for quick streaming anytime/anywhere. Recently however, this message started showing gradually [...]
Why the MOC blocked Skype?
I only heard yesterday that MOC has blocked Skype. I thought of searching for rational reasons behind blocking a voice service rather than throw all my week’s burden on MOC blindly. So here goes. Why did the MOC block Skype? 1. Because it became a dating service? But there are many ways for opposite [...]