Code of Ethics asks for your artistic talent

You have artistic talents, you use Photoshop or illustrator to put your talent into visual masterpieces, and you enjoy being rewarded for your efforts. So why don't you participate in the competition for designing a logo for the Code of Ethics initiative? Check Mahmood.tv for more details.

Flower vs. Flower

Flower in Saar, Bahrain





Flower in Glasgow, Scotland

Death Glorifiers

While others celebrate life, we celebrate death. We die to die. What else justifies sending an sms message to promote a Ramadan booklet by a society in Muharraq like this:

***** صفحة لصور مرحومي المنطقة في الكتيب الرمضاني لجمعية

A page of the recently deceased in the Ramadan Booklet of ****** Society

Graffiti vs. Graffiti

Graffiti in Barcelona, Spain




Graffiti in Saar, Bahrain

Casual Games: Gateway

Casual Games are the hottest commodities in video gaming industry nowadays and for a very simple reason that they appeal to everyone, especially non-hardcore gamers who enjoy passing time with a quick but challenging game on their mobile phones, PDAs, or iPods. Casual Games are easy to learn but hard to master which sounds like the holy grail of video gaming if you ask for my opinion. You actually find them even on gaming consoles like the Sony PlayStation 3 or the Microsoft XBox 360 which shows how appealing these kind of games are.

I found my 7 years old daughter Zain playing the old-but-gold game Snake on our Dreambox satellite receiver the other day! Casual games are played by everyone, everywhere, and for a good reason. They mean big bucks for the gaming industry, but more importantly for independent game developers who were crashed in recent years with the big gaming studios that spend millions of dollars in creating and marketing multi-platform games.

I would like to present to you an interesting game which is simple to learn and control, but extremely challenging. Gateway is a puzzle game in which you use your mouse to control a little robot through the gateways. The game starts with a simple interactive tutorial explaining how to move the robot and collect things and combine them to help you move forward. I love puzzle games. They are a great exercise for my rusty brain, and apparently a great money generator for Nintendo with their series of brain train games on the DS platform. Give it a shot and share your thoughts.

Happy gaming :)

Inventor of Smiley :)

I found the smiley :) inventor

Spam on Facebook

From:	Too Care
To:	BuZain
Subject:	Hello
Message:	Hello, Nice to meet you, how is everything, hope all is well with you. My name is Mrs.Susana Nuhan, I found your contact after reading your profile I picked interest to contact you. I've something very important which I would love to share with you privately, therefore, would advise you to kindly write me back on:(susnuh01@yahoo.com) so that I'll give you details. Waiting anxiously for your anticipated corporation, Yours, Sussy.

micro-blog

If you can't make time to blog, then micro-blog

Anniversary of Bahrain LUG

Come celebrate with us the anniversary of Bahrain Linux User Group @ 4:00pm on Saturday 14th of June 2008 in Belle View Apartments.

There will also be a presentation by fellow super LUGer Marwan about his latest visit to Germany for the Linux Tag 2008 conference.

Set a world record, download Firefox

Help your beloved Firefox web browser to set the Guinness world record of most downloaded software in 24 hours. Download Firefox 3 on June 17th

Linux User Group Gathering

Mark your calendars

The Bahrain Linux User Group is gathering on 4:00PM Saturday, April 12th at the Belle View Apartments (for directions see LUG Location)

The topic will be as follows:

Linux Help Session

All participants are encouraged to submit questions, problems, and desires related to Linux. We will then try and find resolutions and possible ways to get what you want out of Linux. Below are some examples of the types of questions would love to hear about:

Some examples

• How can I do this in Linux? (e.g. Copy a DVD, connect an ipod, edit videos)
• How can I fix this problem I had? (e.g. Wireless Network, Suspend)
• What is this thing? (e.g. the Linux Kernel, GNOME)

Hackers go beyond damaging computers and networks

This is just sick !!

Hackers use flashing animated images posted on an online forum to assault epileptic patients.

Off to Barcelona

Barcelona, here I come

How sweetly shocking!

what's with Chelsea and letting go of their most successful manager ever! It is getting better and better for Liverpool to clinch the very-much-missed premiership title.

I can't be any happier. Viva la Scousers.

I vividly hear Kopites chanting:

London Bridge is falling down
Falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down
Poor old Chelsea
Build it up with Red and White
Red and White
Red and White
Build it up with Red and White
Poor old Chelsea

Latest trend in malicious hacking

THEME: Security

Riding on top of the worldwide appeal of youtube videos, the "Storm Botnet" hacking group bombarded the net with spam email promising funny videos. But when you click on the link, it takes you to their web server that tries to infest your PC with their viruses converting it into a zombie machine that can do whatever the hackers want.

Watch out people. Avoid clicking on links that promise funny videos from people you don't know. The good news is that gmail, and possibly other web based email servers catch these emails as spam. The bad news is, they slip through to batelco's mailboxes.

Here are more details.

Ripped off by Batelco

THEME: Technology

I always knew that I'm not getting from batelco what I pay for. But seeing the bandwidth test results on this interesting website, speedtest.net, is excruciatingly painful.

I get 85 % of what I pay for. What about you?

Damn you terrorists!

I flew out of Glasgow Airport few hours before the burning car attack. I can't believe it!! I was standing inside the terminal in close proximity to the place the car burst into flames. I was looking at the monitors and waiting for my airline gate to open while Zain was playing beside me with her doll. The thought that my precious Zain and UmZain could have been there at the moment of the crash keeps haunting me since I heard the news earlier today.

Damn you terrorists! Killing me, my family, and loads of innocent people would have given you a free ticket to heaven, you say. I say to HELL all of you Islamic fanatics.

Help Google help you

I found this neat feature/game while I was searching on Google and the best way to describe it is to encourage you to use it.


What do you think?

Legends of the colliding universes

Here is a rare joint appearance of legendary Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in the D5 conference few days ago

My First Flickr Photo

I just uploaded my first flickr photo taken with my new Nikon D80 digital SLR camera. This getting-into-photography thing is a long story and it is too late to tell it all so I'll let the juice for a separate post.

I took like 400 pictures since I bought the D80 few days ago but this picture is the one I like most and I thought I'll share it with you all.