2010-03-19

Cool Arabic Search Engine - yamli.com


I found this very cool arabic search engine called yamli.com , what it does is take your english text and transliterates it to arabic. This lets you search for arabic sites without needing an arabic keyboard. I dont know how new this is, but I like it a lot. Check it out.

According to my twitter buddy G_E, yamli is not really new, its only new to me. Thanks for the heads up G_E

2010-03-18

Kindle for Mac Now Available for Download, or rather not.







I was going to announce that kindle for Mac was available from Amazon, then as I went to the webpage, I was told that it is not available for Kuwait, and I had to move to a new country. I know I could lie and say I moved to the States or some other country where it will let me download Kindle, but why should I do that? Its an application, just let me download it and sell me the ebooks. My money is just as good as anyone else's.

I tried to do the right thing, now let me go back to downloading torrents, its easier and available in Kuwait.

Here is a great book from Amazon to tell you just how you can download stuff also, BitTorrent For Dummies

2010-03-16

I am not gone, I just discovered tumblr

Ok, I did not really discover it. Tumblr was there a long time before I found out about it, but it makes blogging so easy and fast and allows me to post a lot of nonsense inspirations very quickly. It is like twitter and blogger got married and their newborn was tumblr. You can find me on tumblr at donveto.tumblr.com .

I am not quitting blogger, just will be posting both here and at tumblr. See you all there, all three of you.

2010-03-07

Love and Hate According to Google

According to google results found, here are some love hate statistics for different Arab countries. Bahrain and Oman come out first according to the love hate ratio and Kuwait is fifth.

Love Hate Hate/Love Ratio
Bahrain 14,300,000 1,800,000 89%
Oman 13,800,000 1,760,000 89%
Qatar 16,700,000 2,820,000 86%
Lebanon 32,500,000 5,870,000 85%
Kuwait 25,100,000 4,560,000 85%
Yemen 17,300,000 3,910,000 82%
Jordan 74,900,000 17,300,000 81%
Saudi 40,500,000 11,500,000 78%
Egypt 30,500,000 9,470,000 76%
UAE 5,600,000 1,810,000 76%
Syria 10,400,000 4,090,000 72%
Iraq 83,000,000 46,100,000 64%

Note to all the statisticians, this is not an accurate report, just a compilation of google results made just for fun.

2010-02-20

How to write an incendiary blog post

Perfect formula to writing an explosive blog post from the Boston Globe. Article is here.

Now sharpen your pencils, or rather flex your typing fingers and start shocking people.

2010-02-18

Buzz - What is it good for?

Sung to the tune of War:


Buzz, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Uh-huh
Buzz, huh, yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y'all

Buzz, huh, good God
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me

Ohhh, Buzz, I despise
Because it means destruction
Of innocent lives

Buzz means tears
To thousands of mothers eyes
When their email contacts are exposed
And lose their lives

I said, Buzz, huh
Good God, y'all
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again

Buzz, whoa, Lord
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me

Buzz, it ain't nothing
But a heartbreaker
Buzz, friend only to the stalker
Ooooh, Buzz
It's an enemy to all mankind
The point of Buzz blows my mind
Buzz has caused unrest
Within the younger generation
Induction then destruction
Who wants to die
Aaaaah, Buzz-huh
Good God y'all
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it, say it, say it

Buzz, huh
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me

If you dont know the song, here it is covered by Bruce Springsteen

2010-02-03

French Spiderman Climbs Burj Khalifa

So Alain Robert aka The French Spider Man decided one day to climb Burj Khalifa, and he did.

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