February 28, 2005
the fad now is E-government , everyone want everything online , some make it , some don’t
of course since we in kuwait enjoy participating in fads , they started kuwait e-government
some Ministries have working functioning sites , with much help online
for example Public Authority for Civil Information have
Civil ID Enquiry Service ( of course you get more service in arabic , since its the offical language in kuwait )
saddly most Ministries have sites that only have normal information , no updated statistic , or service that they perform and give it to us online .
for example Ministry of Intertior ( again english site suck and you have to use arabic ) has no statistic so ever , you could ( for a short time , around 2 days after they opened the site ) check your tickets online , which is great , better than calling and waiting for someone to pick it up , then they removed it .
of course , knowing how stuff work in kuwait , they had it open for a few days , showed it to the Minister and select others who happen to control the contracts for renewal …etc , and afte they saw it they don’t care about it anymore and since it take resource they took it down
the first link to the e-government site could help you people working on Kuwiki so go and and write more , don’t let me and nibaq article stay lonely 
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February 26, 2005
Knowing that most people would be in the street on 25 Feb I didn’t want to go out
But then the family told me they were going to wafra at one of our relative farm
The weather was fine so I agreed
Not long after we left it started heavy raining, and I do mean heavy raining!!
After a while it stopped, later we found out that it kept on raining in Kuwait city, yet it wasn’t raining as much (kind like few drops here and there) the further you went south
Any way, I want to discuss another thing, how do you people with camera take pictures!! My god I can’t even stop anywhere or walk to take a picture
Once I hold the camera to take a picture of anything people start looking at me, I see people getting there mobile and start dialing , and i have to move or the cops show up ( they did once ) .
I remember back in 1999 , It was summer training , I was stationed at Directorate General of Civil Aviation , I had to make a report , so I borrowed a digi-cam from a friend of mine
Went there, took some picture inside and the next day I got one of the student to help me take picture outside, me with the plate that has the name outside
Less than 4 minute later, airport security jeep come and take it us to interrogation, after ½ hour of interrogation they found out we just wanted to take a picture for a report (which what I said the first minute, but you know police & security), they let us out and told me to get a permit, I asked where from and nobody knows
( of course i did manage to get a picture later for the report, below is what i used )
So since I can’t do like others (cough cough mark cough) and say I’m from outside Kuwait Does anyone know where to get a permit?
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February 23, 2005
Great! Not only you get called lazy ass when you play Online PC games and people think bad about you
Now companies help the freaking stereotype!
You’re in luck - pizza is just a few key strokes away! While playing EverQuest II just type /pizza and a web browser will launch the online ordering section of pizzahut.com. Fill in your info and just kick back until fresh pizza is delivered straight to your door.
pizza+everquest
look, I played online games, and yes I’m lazy, BUT NOT THAT LAZY, I could always take a time off to eat, hell one of my friend who I played with always took time off without telling us and went to eat, I stopped playing and went to eat with the family when it was time for lunch, but my god! Ordering while playing! Can’t you Dial the freaking number, what’s next? /clean room .
Speaking of which, I found this
Which I think isn’t a bad idea, but I wouldn’t do something like, I read in my bathroom
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February 22, 2005
flicker is amazing , i have a user name there , and upload picture from time to time
amazing sites spwan other amazing sites that use it
Flickr Graph
is an application that explores the social relationships inside , you use it by entering your username or e-mail ( if you have a flickr account and you have contacts in flickr ) its fun and show you how some people are multi connected and how some aren’t ( like me 
)
Flickr world map
is a world map using flickr pictures and tags
The map plots 1200 random cities from a pool of 36539 from all over the world
of course each time i refresh and see what we have in kuwait i get one of Miskan pictures , maybe because he over use tags ?
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February 19, 2005
i didn’t post for while ben fixing stuff around , saddly some post got deleted
some of the stuff i did were
- got blogroll to run
- resetup flickr for posting photo posts , some which i need to repost again
- setup technorati yet i don’t have any idea how to run it
- added some plugins , which i hope run smooth
i’ll be trying to move the blog to the main web site , still didn’t sit down and do it
hopefully i don’t delete the post again …
of couse i still type new information in kuwait wiki
its a big project and hopefully it become more and more helpfull for everyone
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