Year: 2005

URL ABCs

This is an interesting meme started by Defective Yeti.
The following are the first urls that come up in my browser’s address bar for every letter in the alphabet.

A is for aquacool.blogspot.com – Of course, my wife’s great blog 🙂

B is for blogdex.net – The best blog diffusion index out there.

C is for chanadbahrain.blogspot.com – A great Bahraini blogger.

D is for del.icio.us/subzeroblue – My del.icio.us page.

E is for edition.cnn.com – CNN International edition for news and stuff.

F is for flickr.com – The amazing flickr.

G is for google.com – Duh!

H is for hamoudy.com – A Lebanese blogger in the US.

I is for imdb.com – The greatest source of information on movies.

J is for jordanplanet.net – The Jordanian blogger aggregator.

K is for kuwaitblogs.com/users/nibaq – A great Kuwaiti blogger.

L is for lafayettestory.blogspot.com – Newest Tunisian blogger.

M is for mail.yahoo.com – To check my Yahoo mail every once in a while.

N is for news.google.com – Google again, this time for news…

O is for omars2cents.blogspot.com – Syrian blogger in Canada.

P is for ping.net – Service to add a fan faceroll to your blog.

Q is for quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/03/ajax_promise_or.html – Article: Ajax, promise or hype?

R is for rundom.com/houssein – A great Tunisian blogger in Canada.

S is for subzeroblue.com – My blog, of course 🙂

T is for technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=subzeroblue.com – My Technorati

U is for upcoming.org – Cool social event calendar.

V is for veer.com/ideas/wallpaper/ – Some really cool wallpapers.

W is for whispers.hautetfort.com – A Tunisian blogger.

X is for xanga.com/skin.asp?user=Sociopath – A friend blogger from the US.

Y is for yahoo.com – They’re becoming cool again.

Z is for zizoufromdjerba.blogspot.com – Another new Tunisian blogger.

links for 2005-04-28

Daylight Saving Time

So after a number of years of not changing time, Tunisia is back to applying daylight saving time starting this year.

Clocks will be advanced by one hour on midnight this coming Sunday, May 1st.

This comes as a move by the government to try and promote saving of energy in the wake of the ever-rising cost of fuel in the world market.

Doesn’t bother me at all.
In fact it adds an extra hour of daylight to the summer days, so one more hour of summer fun 😉

Ski Dubai

Dubai desert gives way to ski resort…

Ski Dubai is a formidable engineering feat, an incongruous 25-storey structure rising from the Gulf emirate’s sands as some 1000 labourers work round the clock building the Middle East’s only indoor ski resort and the world’s third largest.

The brainchild of Majid al-Futtaim, the mountain-themed resort is being built within his group’s billion-dollar Mall of the Emirates, partly to lure people to what will be the third largest shopping centre in the world, and to make it different.

[Source: Al Jazeera]

Man!! Dubai is becoming more and more like a wonderland / amazement park. Unbelievable projects are popping up there everyday, and although they’re all really exciting and wonderful, I wonder why they’re being done?
What is behind this obsession to always build bigger, higher, cooler stuff?
I guess it’s the urge to go the extra step and do things that have never been done before and the beautiful feelings that are felt when they are done.

But how far will this go?
What’s next I wonder?!

links for 2005-04-26

Bahraini Websites Must Register

Register or face legal action…

Webmasters face prosecution if they defy new rules announced by Bahraini authorities. All Bahraini websites set up here or abroad must register with the Information Ministry or face legal action, it was declared yesterday.

A six-month campaign is being launched next Monday to register all Bahraini websites, under orders from Information Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar.

…websites would face similar laws to newspapers, related to libel, public decency and ethics.

Just as a newspaper editor-in-chief is held responsible for what he publishes, so will the webmasters be…

[Source: Gulf Daily News]

Well even though this could have been great news if the goal behind it was to empower bloggers and give them more rights, it’s actually really bad news.

The purpose behind this move is an obvious attempt by the Bahraini government to keep a leash on Bahraini bloggers, track everyone and hold them accountable for their opinions.
We’ve already seen the kind of rights the people who were found out got.

It’s really a shame to see something like this happening. And what’s even worse is that we could see moves like this propagating across the Arab world.

Mahmood is proposing a plan of action against these rules.
I totally support the Bahraini bloggers’ cause and wish them the best of luck in putting an end to this madness. It’s a common cause for us all.

[Via: Mahmood’s Den, Savior Machine]

After the First Tunisian Blogger Meetup

We just got home from the first Tunisian Blogger Meetup at Biwa in Les Berges du Lac.

It was a lot of fun and really cool to meet all the bloggers who came. We really wished everyone else could have come too and we remembered the bloggers outside Tunisia too. I hope next time more people will come, including our expats, and we’ll have more fun.

We were 16 all in all, a lot more than I expected to show up. So that’s really great 🙂
The following blogs were represented today: Mouse Hunter, Pens

links for 2005-04-24