Archive for the 'Kuwait News' Category

Around the web

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Page Views 2.0
Clerks 2
FatBits: John Siracusa’s Journal: And we all shine on
On Being a Press Expert (thanks Jeremy)
MoveOn.org Civic Action: Save NPR and PBS (again)
WordPress functions – Red Alt
WordPress no-www – this is on my to-do list, along with a site reconstruction.
The Value of .Mac
PHP 5 Statistics
Mob Mentality and Web 2.0 – I’m still catching [...]

Bouncing Ideas

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

I had lunch with Danny today and took the opportunity to ask for some feedback/help with the tagging interface I’ve implemented for the next release of Tasks Pro™.
I’d already re-done the tagging interface 3 times, and I’m still not satisfied with it. Trying to walk the line between consistency and subtlety with a feature is [...]

Soldier Convicted in Deadly Attack on His Camp

Thursday, June 15th, 2006


Hasan Akbar could be sentenced to death for killing two of his comrades and wounding 14 others in an attack on his own camp in Kuwait at the start of the Iraq war.

[TS] Kuwait Grants Political Rights To Its Women

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

The vote came just two weeks after the Parliament had thwarted a measure allowing women to take part in city council elections.

WordPress no-www

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

After being frustrated with mod_rewrite mojo, I wrote a quickie no-www plugin for WordPress that redirects people to the non-www version of your URLs, in the spirit of no-www.org.

GigaOM Goes Full-time

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Om Malik is taking GigaOM full-time. (!) Update: This picture of Om is actually why I started reading his site.

Analogies and Metaphors From High School

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year’s winners…..

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides [...]

NSA Microformats

Friday, June 9th, 2006

I wonder when the NSA will discover Microformats?

Bounty for Tethering the BlackBerry 8700 to a Mac

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

As far as I can tell, no one has yet come up with a way to tether a BlackBerry 8700 to a Mac (running Mac OS X) to use it as a modem. This works on the PC, so it’s likely a matter of reverse engineering to get it working on OS X.
It seems that [...]

Where to Travel in Kuwait.

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Where to travel in Kuwait.