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How some big IT companies got their names.
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Interesting list of things you likely didn’t know.
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Guides to learning a bunch of useless skills.
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1073 people from Microsoft & Unisys playing Counter-Strike 1.1 simultaneously.
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A blog with photos of girls taken from flickr.
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“A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.”
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It seems Apple may be forced to pay royalties to Microsoft for every iPod it sells.
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A place to buy and sell all things handmade.
Month: August 2005
Erotic Images Can Turn You Blind
Researchers have finally found evidence that erotic images make you go blind. The effect is temporary and lasts just a moment, but the research has added to road-safety campaigners
links for 2005-08-16
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Hackers have found a way to run OS X on a PC.
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Om Malik predicts the rise of GoogleNet.
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Christopher Walken for U.S. President 2008.
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I like this one: “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” by Steve Wozniak
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I agree with all these 7 points, and I think they extend a bit further than just the first week.
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Not too different, just a bit better…
Internet Access on Tunisian Trains
The Tunisian national railway company (SNCFT) has announced that it is now providing internet access on board its long distance trains.
Passengers can now surf the web at a low cost from the comfort of their train cars.
This new service was made possible through a new venture financed by the National Solidarity Bank, a microcredit institution which provides young university graduates with low interest rate loans of up to 33,000 dinars to help them set up their own business ventures.
SNCFT transports more than 35 million passengers yearly, 5 million of them on long distance trains.
I think this is great and I hope we see more and more initiatives like this one popping up everywhere.
Babies On U.S. No-Fly List
Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the United States because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government’s “no-fly list.”
The government’s lists of people who are either barred from flying or require extra scrutiny before being allowed to board airplanes grew markedly since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Critics including the American Civil Liberties Union say the government doesn’t provide enough information about the people on the lists, so innocent passengers can be caught up in the security sweep if they happen to have the same name as someone on the lists.
That can happen even if the person happens to be an infant.
Now, I totally understand the reason such a list and others like it exist, but turning back an infant because their name is similar to a suspect’s name is just plain stupid no matter how you look at it!
The government should provide more information and the security people should be a bit more intelligent.
[Source: CNN]
Dentist Urgently Needed
Ok, it’s really about time I go to a dentist.
I’ve been trying to avoid this for a long time now.
I’ve been ignoring the bits and pieces of teeth that have been falling apart every now and then.
I’ve been gobbling up painkillers to try and get over the head-splitting toothaches.
But now with small holes starting to form and at least 3 of my teeth surely in need of that painful root canal treatment I’ve already tried once before, I think it’s time I go to a dentist as soon as possible before things get even worse.
I totally hate dentists, but well a must is a must.
So, I need a favor from my fellow Tunisian bloggers to help me out here and tell me about good dentists they’ve tried out and who have a “light hand”, as we’d say, meaning that he/she isn’t a sadistic bastard who will screw the living lights out of me with pain!
Leave a comment or send me an email with the doctor’s contacts and a short description of your experience with him/her.
Thank you…
Dead Boss Joke
A guy phones up his Boss, but gets the bosses’ wife instead.
“I’m afraid he died last week.” she explains.
The next day the man calls again and asks for the boss. “I told you” the wife replies, “he died last week.”
The next day he calls again and once more asks to Speak to his boss. By this time the wife is getting upset and shouts, “I’VE ALREADY TOLD YOU TWICE, MY HUSBAND, YOUR BOSS, DIED LAST WEEK! WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING?”
He replied laughing, “I just love hearing it…”
looooool…
Very funny…
After The 5th Tunisian Blogger Meetup
Yesterday we had the fifth Tunisian blogger meetup in Kelibia.
The meetups keep getting longer and longer; yesterday’s meetup started at 10AM, when we met in the Abou Nawas Hotel parking, and went on to midnight.
By the time, we got home, we just headed straight to bed. There was no way we could blog about it, lol…
It was a really great meetup and so much fun. The best one up to now.
Kelibia is so beautiful and El Mansourah restaurant, the place we met, had lunch and swam in, is just breathtakingly amazing.
10 people made it to this meetup, which is pretty good considering that Kelibia is 100Kms away. We could have taken more people with us if they came to the Abou Nawas hotel parking as I suggested, as we actually left with place for 3 to 4 more bloggers.
The blogs represented in this meetup were: Adib, Evil Drako, Blogeuse, Marouen, Mouse Hunter, La Guilde, AquaCool, Subzero Blue.
We had 2 non-bloggers with us, who we are pushing to start blogs of their own soon 😉
We really missed all the people who couldn’t make it to the meetup. I hope we get to see you all very soon 🙂
We talked about a lot of stuff as usual, but this is maybe the meetup in which we talked the least about blogging, lol.
I guess we were too relaxed and loving the place to talk about technology and internet stuff.
So, what did we do?
We went to El Mansourah restaurant, where our dear Adib reserved a table for us right next to the water. We went down and started swimming as the other bloggers arrived.
When everyone was there, we ordered the food and then went back swimming.
We had our quite expensive lunch, then dived back into the water.
Then we had our desserts, paid and headed to the Kelibia fortress, a historical site overlooking all of Kelibia, that was built back in the Punic era. It’s huge, and it was really nice visiting it, it added a cultural side to our meetup.
Later we went to the caf
Digital Marathon 2005 in Bizerta
Bizerta
5th Tunisian Blogger Meetup Tomorrow
So, the fifth Tunisian blogger meetup is tomorrow in Kelibia.
I can’t wait to meet the old faces again and get to know the new people who will be coming.
Adib asked us all to try and be there before noon so we don’t lose our reservation in El Mansoura restaurant.
As for getting there, some people already have their transportation arranged and are going directly to Kelibia from or through some other place.
As for the people who are in Tunis, and who have cars or don’t know how to go, I suggest that we meet in the Abou Nawas Tunis hotel parking at 10AM so that we can split ourselves between the available cars and then drive to Kelibia together.
Marouen Mraihi has reserved a place with me in my car, which leaves one or two more places in my car’s backseat depending on how much you’ve had for dinner tonight 😛
I hope everyone will do their best to come. I know it’s summer, I know there are a million things going on in our lives, I know Kelibia is a bit far, but it’ll be fun and worth it, so please be there 🙂