Archive for 2005

December 19, 2005 | In: Photography

Postcards from Greifswald

This picture was taken by me in Greifswald, Germany last June. ...and this one of almost the same scene was taken found on the internet by my friend Kathrin this...

This year?s third round of my Middle East student recruitment forays involved a trip to the UAE. Landed in Dubai to discover that the Hilton, responsible for arranging my visa, has ?slightly? screwed up and sent it to Abu Dhabi airport instead of Dubai....

November 8, 2005 | In: Random

Sleeping student epiphanys

Today in my International Business class (usually 120 minutes of pure, distilled boredom, but this particular class was rather interesting) the discussion revolved around the relative ease of starting and/or operating a business in different countries,...

November 7, 2005 | In: Humor, Video

Rock obsession

My dog has a thing for...

What is it with all the asinine vowelless names?! Flickr, Frappr, Mappr, Syncr, Scanr,...

Idly browsing the Internet these days makes me feel like I was sleeping in a virtual cave for the past few months (which is an eternity in Internet time) and woke up in the new and improved world of Web 2.0 to see all those newfangled implements...

October 30, 2005 | In: Food

Man eats shark

So lately I've acquired a taste for the frighful critter of ze deep. Forget about shark fin soup and all that gourmet crap. I know it is considered some kind of exotic food in the rest of the world, and that in some parts of the world it is...

October 25, 2005 | In: Internet, Travel, Video

Video blogging

Comrade blogger Mike put me on to YouTube.com, basically its kind of like Flickr for video. Pretty cool. So I am trying it out with posting a video of myself displaying my amazing foot dribbling skills on the beach in Muscat, Oman, from last March. (I...

October 25, 2005 | In: Art, Design, Family

Art by Sara

My sister studies art at the School of Fine Arts of Helwan University. And every once in a while she shows me some stuff that blows my mind. I mean, I can be "artistic" all I want using Photoshop, but this is real talent. Check this one...

With the icy coolness and steel-nerved agility of a seasoned Cairene urban warrior, Mike dodges a close call with death as he demonstrates the proper way to kill yourself cross a main street in downtown Cairo... Check out Mike's illustrated...

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