Archive for December, 2009

A Day For This & A Day For That

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

A quick random thought… When the weather is beautiful and all spring-like; everyone says this is a perfect day to be out and about, not to be wasted in-doors. When the weather is cold and gloomy; everyone says this day is best spent snuggled up in front of the TV drinking something hot. When the [...]

Failure: The Ultimate Arab Taboo

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

[Cue show's title music] The silhouettes of a group of overweight people walking towards you appear on the screen. The silhouettes start becoming clearer and we see the group of contestants. The name of the show flashes on the screen. “The Biggest Loser” (A show where a group of overweight people are challenged to lose [...]

Google Chrome Grows Up A Bit More

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I’ve been a loyal user of Google’s Chrome browser ever since the first day of its release, when I tried it and wrote about it here over a year ago. It just worked for me, it’s a very light, simple and fast browser; and the move from Firefox to it felt as sweet as my [...]

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (Paul Torday)

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

I’ve been reading a lot of books about business, entrepreneurship, marketing and other stuff along those lines recently; and as good as those get, I just missed going through a really nice novel and letting my imagination run wild with it, so a few days ago, I just picked up the book “Salmon Fishing In [...]

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