Mac gets owned - by The Guardian

Here are some choice quotes from the article:

PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers.
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I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality.
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Full article here.

Disclaimer

I am technology agnostic, I don't care what I use as long as it does the job.

Kuwaiti Influence on Microsoft Vista

Hamad Darwish was born in Kuwait and raised in Bayan. He is currently employed at the Kuwait Ministry of Health in the Radiology Department. He also has a passion for Photography, where he posted a lot of photos on Flickr.

One day, Hamad says, "I got a short Flickr message asking me if I was interested in selling some of my work, without mentioning the party that is interested in buying. After I replied to message saying “yes. why not”, I received a professional offer from Microsoft’s MSX Design Group. The moment I saw the Microsoft logo on the header, I didn’t know how to react! It was the most tremendous feeling ever."

The end of the story is that five of Hamad's photographs will be used in the Vista background and 90 Million people will be seeing Hamad's work everytime they use their computer.

Here is an Interview with Hamad.

Here is Hamad's blog.

Here is Hamad's Flickr Page.

Don't you just hate...

Don't you just hate people saying something to you, then just as you are answering and in midesentence, their mobile rings and they ignore you and take the call.

Maybe, you find your significant other chatting with someone else, then you ask who it is and they act all suspicious, and say it is nobody, or a wrong number. Hmmm, very suspicious, one word of advice: don't do what this guy did, or what this girl did:

Dodging Bullets

Remember that classic scene from the Matrix where Neo dodges bullets fired at him. The scene was a classic and led to the term "bullet time" meaning something filmed and slowed down to show the bullet flying. Bullet Time has been redone in a lot of movies and TV shows after the Matrix. Here is the scene where Neo dodges bullets:





Here is another bullet time scene as done by Bollywood:

A Typical Family Dinner

Here is an Egyptian family over a typical dinner,

Our Camel Lovely Camel

Camels, those noble animals that travelled across the Arabian Deserts. Travelling in Caravans transporting people and cargo and supplying the town bazaars.

Now, in the present day, Camels get to ride in Toyota pick up trucks (or wanette). Here is a picture of a lovely camel as seen on the Maghreb Expressway on towards Kuwait City.

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Check out Amer's excellent post about Third Culture Kids.

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McDonald's is changing its fries soon

Hurry everyone; go to your nearest Mc Donald's and stock up on the fries. I tried all kind of fries but nothing tastes as good as the Mc Donald's fries. It is slightly crispy outside and soft inside. You can take a single piece of fry and break it with a distinct snap to it. You can see the vapors float up from the two broken pieces. The taste is also better. I have been told by an expert cook that animal fat is used with the fries and the proof is when the fries cool down they are still crispy and not soggy like all the other fries. According to my expert friend, only food cooked with animal fat can do that.

Mc Donald's just announced that they will be changing their frying oils but did not announce when. You can read more here.

I think I am going to buy a few hundred kilos of McD fries and cryogenically preserve them, and then when they stop producing the classic fries, I can resell it for a higher price to my nostalgic customers or on ebay.

iPhone Humor

Introducing the iPhone Shuffle.

I have my iPhone with me.

:-)

I'm Rich! I'm Rich!

Chad Hurley, co-founder of the popular Internet video sharing web site YouTube, said that the company is working on a plan for users who upload videos to be paid for their contributions. More here.

I started posting stuff on YouTube over 10 months ago. I posted videos that I got from my mobile camera and clips that friends sent over to me. A few I posted on this blog and others I kept on YouTube. Now the YouTube benevolent owners want to send some dollars over to me. Thank you very much Mr. Chad. The YouTube team still did not finalize the plan yet but if you want to make me richer, check out my YouTube posts by clicking on the pretty YouTube mosaic on the top left.

One thing I noticed, three days ago I put up a video of a lady rolling cigars, and in the first 3 hours it got around 270 views. My most viewed video is Saddam Hussein's sentencing with 48,087 views.

What does this tell me? That I should post more girl clips, and recent political events. That's stuff I usually try to avoid posting about.

Oh well I might not get rich as fast as I thought.