Year: 2005

If I Were…

If I were a musical instrument, I’d be an acoustic guitar.
If I were a song, I’d be “Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.
If I were a word, I’d be “Friend”.
If I were a colour, I’d be blue.
If I were a home, I’d be a country house.
If I were a place, I’d be a tropical island.
If I were a car, I’d be a 4×4.
If I were an animal, I’d be an eagle.
If I were a fruit, I’d be an apple.
If I were a blog, I’d be Subzero Blue.

PalestineBlogs

It’s always a delight to see a new pro-Palestine blog being born, and this time it comes in the form of PalestineBlogs.

This new blog is an effort by our friend Sabbah, and it will provide users with a comprehensive overview of Palestine’s current and previous issues; news clippings; reblog news; a debate forum and a lot more.

It seems that some invitations will be sent to some pro-Palestine bloggers to join the editing team, which I think is a really great idea.

So, good luck to PalestineBlogs.
You can always count on me to help in anyway that I can.

Reader’s Requests: The Answers

So, it’s finally Friday and it’s time for me to answer the questions and suggestions that I got over the past week.

So I’ll be answering the questions one by one in the order I got them.

Saoirse:
i want to know your full name:)
How old are you? how many brothers and sisters do you have?
How come you are the only one who gets to post threads?!!!
Who did you vote for in superstar2?(if anybody at all!)
What is your favourite tunisian plate?
How come your wife is so sweet??:)

 

Continue reading Reader’s Requests: The Answers

Man Begs Wife’s Forgiveness In $17,000 Ad

Hmmmm….

When five dozen roses didn’t work, an estranged husband took out a full-page $17,000 newspaper ad to ask his wife for forgiveness.

“Please believe the words in my letter, they are true and from my heart,” read the ad in Tuesday’s edition of The Florida Times-Union. “I can only hope you will give me the chance to prove my unending love for you. Life without you is empty and meaningless.”

Larry, who declined to give his last name, sent the $17,000 apology to Marianne, his wife of 17 years. She left him almost two weeks ago, he said.

Larry, who lives in Orlando, said his wife is staying with her parents near Jacksonville. But they blocked him from entering their gated community and she changed her cell phone number so he can’t contact her.

[Via: CNN]

Now, I know some people are gonna think this is so romantic, sweet and stuff. But I personally think it’s total madness!

This guy has obviously been watching way too many cheesy hollywood romance movies.

Jailed For Using A Nonstandard Browser

A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx — a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others — on Sun’s Solaris operating system.

British Telecom, the site-operator, misread an access log and saw it as a non-standard browser not identifying it’s type and doing strange things. They decided that this “unusual” event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, traced the user’s IP and had the police go in SWAT style to arrest the donor while he was having his lunch.

The man is out on bail till next week and preparing to make a lot of very bad PR for BT and the Police.

I think this is very dumb of British Telecom. They should know better than that.

Anyway, there’s one more good reason to move to Firefox. Either you do or you risk being arrested and jailed 😛

[Via: Boing Boing]
[In The News: BBC News]

Google Video

Google have just launched a beta of one of their new services Google Video.

The service archives televised content transcripts and screenshots, and enables you to search through them.
It seems that soon they’ll also be providing video files of the shows.

For this test period, only a small amount of programming from a limited number of channels is included in the search results. But new content will be indexed daily and more channels will be added in the near future.

I think this is a cool and very interesting service, anyway I would also like to see Google expand it a bit further to include search of other video content lying around on the internet, like Yahoo’s video search.

Ukrainian Hasn’t Slept In 20 Years

Weird stuff…

A 63-year-old man who hasn’t slept for more than two decades has been told there is nothing medically wrong with him by doctors.

Ukrainian Fyodor Nesterchuk from the town of Kamen-Kashirsky said the last time he managed to doze off was more than 20 years ago.

All attempts by doctors to put him to sleep have failed.

[Via: Ananova]

Sleeping is one of life’s pleasures that I enjoy the most.
If I weren’t able to sleep for 20 years, I’d most probably kill myself!

Bad Women-Driving Linked To Hormones

Now this is interesting…

Map reading and parking may prove difficult for some women because they were exposed to too little testosterone in the womb, researchers from the University of Giessen, Germany discovered.

The study, in the journal Intelligence, fuels the age-old male myth that women are deficient in these skills.

[Via: BBC News]

What do you women-drivers think?

I personally don’t think all women drive badly, it’s bad to generalize. But I have to admit that a lot of them suck when it comes to it.
Honestly, every single time some car does something stupid in front of me, the driver ends up being a woman 90% of the time if not more. A coincidence maybe? And maybe not 😛

Vote for me at Bloggies 2005

Update: The Bloggies 2005 site is back online now. You can start voting. Thank you 🙂

Thanks to all your nominations and to the votes of the Bloggies 2005 panel afterwards, Subzero Blue is a finalist for “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog” for the second year in a row.

Please pass by the Bloggies 2005 site and vote for me and don’t forget to tell all your friends to vote for me too.

Only one vote per email address, so whoever has more than one email can vote more than once 😉

I’m counting on you guys to win the award for Subzero Blue this year.

Thank you all so so much 🙂

Vote for me here: Bloggies 2005.