Stadium vs. Stadium

Stadium in Doha, Qatar




Stadium in Barcelona, Spain

No Sweat College Degrees

While we bust our heads day and night studying hard to get a degree, 12 Bahrainis, according to Arabian Business, paid money to get certificates in the mail. It is so despicable that I had an immediate urge to publish the names in BOLD. The disclaimer on the American magazine that published the list made me retreat.

Coincidently, University of Strathclyde, where I'm doing my MBA, sent us an email invitation for a very important meeting this weekend to address a similar issue. It seems that some of their students have been buying custom written assignments from individuals in Bahrain who make a business out of preparing bespoke MBA assignments. No wonder we have all kinds of morons in executive jobs all over the country.

Track Your Comments

The moment you leave a comment on a blog post, you are actually engaging in a multi-way conversation. That conversation spans days with different people from different time zones having different views. The blog needs to be revisited again and again to keep up with the flow of ideas. So how do you keep track of these conversations? Some blog engines like blogger.com and some wordpress implementations give you the option to be notified by email of any changes happen after you leave a comment. This is a nifty trick but it is not used by all blog engines.

The solution I use is called Commentful from Blog Flux. It is a web service that keeps track of changes and updates on any blog post you ask it to monitor. You add a blog post to a watch list, and the system visits it every ten minutes to check if new comments are added. If a blog post is not updated for a month or so, it gets moved to an archive page so only the active ones are shown.

What about you? How do you keep track of comments on blogs you visit?

Little Gordon

If you ever enjoyed Hell's Kitchen TV show then you'll definitely enjoy this

Beach vs. Beach

Beach in Muscat, Oman




Beach in Tubli, Bahrain

Hack your Mind

Boost your mind, hack it to learn better, faster, and deeper and become a pillar of progression for the society with these 77 tips and techniques related to health, balance, and focus.

Anatomy of a troubleshooting process

about 2 hours ago
Internet access is extremely slow. Anybody else is having the same problem?

about 1 hour ago
BTW, I'm on Batelco's 1mb ADSL service

about 1 hour ago
Batelco's DNS is screwed. www.google.com is not resolved but www.yahoo.com is. Could it be something bigger, maybe root dns servers?

35 minutes ago
It's google's DNS. It's not responding. Try it with nslookup or dig and server ns1.google.com

30 minutes ago
Nonetheless, internet speed is damn slow

26 minutes ago
gmail is also not accessible. What's going on?

22 minutes ago
got a google IP address, 64.233.167.104, from a web based nslookup service. Still not accessible. Could it be Batelco's proxy?

10 minutes ago
just used www.anon.me web proxy to successfully access google.com. it's definitely Batelco's problem.

5 minutes ago
google.com is back, gmail.com is back. Speed is a little bit better. Batelco, what the heck happened?