Browsing the blog archives for January, 2007

23 Jan 07

المنتخب – إعادة

From June 8th 2005 … More than a year and a half ago – المنتخب الدولة منتخبنا و رياضتنا كلها مثل وزاراتنا و مثل ثقافتنا و مثل فننا و مثل تعليمنا و مثل أي مجال آخر يحتاج الى تخطيط من الدولة …… عايش على البركة دولتنا ديناصور يحتضر! العنصر الوحيد الحي في بلدنا هو الاقتصاد. [...]

19 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Politics, Sports by Q
17 Jan 07

Would you like plastic or plastic?

Continuing on the environment theme….. I went to the jam3iya a couple of days ago, and bought alot some stuff for the house. I was on the phone at the cashiers and didn’t pay attention to when the guy was putting my stuff in the plastic bags. When I got back home, I was carrying [...]

17 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Social by Q
14 Jan 07

Global Warming – Turning into a reality!

* Jan 15th UPDATE* First of all, thanks for all the great responses either here on comments, through email, or even by phone. A friend of mine who could be called an environmentalist and is studying the field sent me this, its worth reading – Individual Kuwaitis are HUGE (relatively) contributers to global warming. Kuwait [...]

24 Comments Posted in Business, Kuwait, Politics, Social by Q
13 Jan 07

AlWatan follows Kuwaitism

heh, well not really, but its good to think so. In today’s issue, they had 2 pages about سوق الخضار the fruits and vegetable market. Where did I see someone write about this very recently?? hmmmm? Tweet This Post

3 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Media by Q
12 Jan 07

More interesting videos

This is one I uploaded after receiving it by email. I’ve heard about it but haven’t seen it since the movie came out. Very interesting clip from “The Long Kiss Goodnight” (which came out in 1996) that has alot in common with the 9/11 attacks (which happened in 2001)- Clip from The Long Kiss Goodnight [...]

6 Comments Posted in Media, Technology by Q
8 Jan 07

بورصة الخضار

خسران بالبورصة؟؟ تحب الأكل؟؟ تفهم بالخضرة أكثر من الأسهم؟؟ أسعار بورصة الخضار – الأسعار اليومية للخضار – الإتحاد الكويتي للمزارعين الأسعار اليومية للمحاصيل المدعومة – الهيئة العامة لشئون الزراعة و الثروة السمكية Tweet This Post

8 Comments Posted in Business, Food, Kuwait by Q
7 Jan 07

MASHAER website hacked

MASHAER, a company listed in the Kuwait Stock Exchange and specializing in providing Hajj and Umrah services, has had its website hacked and redirected to Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ website. click on image to zoom in Tweet This Post

11 Comments Posted in Business, Kuwait, Politics, Technology by Q
7 Jan 07

Radio and phone interference

Back at work, and it feels like being dragged to school when we were kids. Not a good day at all. Anyway, I have a question that I hope some of you engineers can solve for me. It is something that has always baffled me and annoyed me. Why is it that everytime you’re driving [...]

14 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Technology by Q
4 Jan 07

Back from Beirut – Pics & Comments

So we got back 3 days go from Beirut, but Ive been sleeping since then so didn’t feel like posting. Anyway, here are some pics of my trips – The cliche picture that everyone has to take when there This picture is taken from where the demonstrators are camped out, they are behind us, for [...]

10 Comments Posted in Travel by Q