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How i feel :-(
March 6, 2010 – 11:28 pm | 2 Comments
How i feel :-(

I remembered this Quote from xXx the movie…where Samuel jackson, tells Vin diesel, on why he should support the US special forces for the Russian operation.
“You ever watch lions at the zoo?
You can tell which …

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(8001050F)
March 1, 2010 – 3:24 am | 2 Comments

After having some difficulties with my ISP and connecting to the matchmaking server of Modern Warfare II now this:
The PlayStation Network is down! WORLDWIDE! People all across the planet are getting this error message when …

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Clothing Stores in Kuwait still at their mad mark ups
January 20, 2010 – 9:38 pm | 5 Comments
Clothing Stores in Kuwait still at their mad mark ups

Since Al Shaya hit the 75% sales, it was time to hit the malls once again spending hour after hour without even realizing how much we were spending as compared to what our budgets were …

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Ensuring Mail Delivery – Mail Admin’s Nightmare..! – Part 1
December 30, 2009 – 11:59 am | No Comment
Ensuring Mail Delivery – Mail Admin’s Nightmare..! – Part 1

In an era , where Spams / Viruses / Trojans have become a part and parcel of life. The guys who are mostly hit are Mail Administrators..
Definition
Mail Administrators = IT Guys who take care mail …

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What are you giving up for the new year!
December 19, 2009 – 10:36 pm | One Comment
What are you giving up for the new year!

Every Year we make new resolutions for the year. Some follow them to the DOT. Some leave out few, but Many dont do them at all. So this time, i want to “give up” things, …

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Drobo to NetgearReady NAS!!!
December 9, 2009 – 12:23 pm | No Comment
Drobo to NetgearReady NAS!!!

Last week, after drobo started blinking 1 drive as orange, mentioning to change a smaller drive. i removed a smaller 320 GB hd and plugged in a 1 TB drive… from there drobo went berserk.. …

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BackStabbing Charities!!
December 7, 2009 – 1:08 pm | 2 Comments
BackStabbing Charities!!

Its a bad world out there. When you give your heart and soul for a cause and then support the charity organization alot, help in publicity and more for the last so many years.. all …

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Staple pin in Chinese Fried Rice From ChinaTown!
November 11, 2009 – 7:40 am | 2 Comments
Staple pin in Chinese Fried Rice From ChinaTown!

We decided to order from ChinaTown Salmiya after a very long time and since WokMaster has skyrocketed their prices and their Quality & Quantity going bad. It was wonderful to get the old taste of our …

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Afro… a disadvantage
November 7, 2009 – 11:15 am | 6 Comments
Afro… a disadvantage

I havent cut my Hair in a while, being all too busy at work, so it looks like a mini afro since its uncontrollably CURLY!!. I already have warnings from my wife, sister in law, …

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Sorry, GeoCities has closed.
October 28, 2009 – 11:05 am | 2 Comments
Sorry, GeoCities has closed.

GeoCities, were the first companies offering both paid and free hosting services to companies and individuals during early 1995. When Yahoo took over Geocities  in 1999-2000, we expected much more from yahoo, but it seems …

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Life and all that comes with it…!
October 27, 2009 – 11:46 am | 3 Comments

With recession just over and companies working really hard to come back to the zest and glory they once had, this has forced everything to take a major jump into the speed of getting things …

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Acrobat Vulnerability Creating Havoc!
October 22, 2009 – 9:53 pm | One Comment

ok just an update. i have been struggling with a malware which comes through browsing normal websites and many AVs are having a tough time blocking such attacks as they keep changing too fast. So …

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Flu Carrier!
October 13, 2009 – 11:19 pm | 10 Comments
Flu Carrier!

The Elevator Buttons!!!

Saw this at a client location, i seriously dont know how to press that!. Had to elbow my way up

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Promotional Choice?
October 12, 2009 – 11:12 pm | 2 Comments
Promotional Choice?

Had seen this in City Centre sometime back…. had got a shot of it.. before they changed it.

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7 Days – 7 Accidents
October 10, 2009 – 8:45 am | 3 Comments

i mentioned in August about a major accident outside my apartment.  Now from the last 7 days we have had 7 accidents.  Various types, from Flip overs to runovers to dents, and scraps…. i think …

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My Deal with Qualitynet…….
August 29, 2009 – 10:19 pm | 13 Comments

after last 6 months of frustations, slow net speeds with Qualitynet and with the recent slow down of speed…. today was the height of my patience.
Dialed 1804444,
Called sales.
Lady picks up…..
“Huge Greeting in arabic”
Me: Hi, im …

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Things to do or Avoid… for “Flu”
August 24, 2009 – 11:22 pm | 2 Comments

Flu has many variants, some are airborne, but most of them are in close proximity with people or by touch. Being a Sinus patient myself. What i hate the most if being down with flu as …

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Wataniya IPs 78.89.0.0/16 Blocked at pbl.Spamhaus.org
August 24, 2009 – 5:26 am | One Comment

78.89.0.0 – 78.89.127.255, range of IPs currently assigned to Wataniya Telecom is blocked by pbl.Spamhaus.org for not complying with Spamhaus of “Direct-MX” sender methods.
http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL237061
So if you are using a Wataniya modem, router etc to browse …

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OMG!!! Accident!!…. was he kuwaiti?? huh?
August 22, 2009 – 10:55 pm | 10 Comments

I thought a 100 times to write about this, but being busy, kept me away from my blog. but it was still fresh in my head, i decided to clear it out.
2 weeks back, on a …

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To all you ‘Wanna-BE’ IT Guys!!!
May 17, 2009 – 12:37 am | 4 Comments

Okk… here it goes.  Anytime i meet a new client. i always hear stories of endless frustations that the client has had. The Mess up the previous IT guys have done. the losses , the …

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Hala Waleed? – Part -2
April 18, 2009 – 10:07 pm | 6 Comments

ok i thought this would end…. today again
Caller: Waleed?
Me : What? im not waleed
Caller: Waleed Abdllll…….
Me: WTF Dude… im not waleed, cant you understand i keep telling you im not waleed
Caller: Diyar?
Me: no i dont …

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Hala Waleed?
April 2, 2009 – 2:20 am | 9 Comments

Got a Call today….on my cell this morning
Ring Ring..(Seems to be a qualitynet number 1808888)
Me: Hello….
Caller: Hala Waleed?
Me: huh? what? im not….
Caller: Wen Cheque?
Me: what? who are you? what cheque?
Caller:Ana ibi Cheque?
Me: Do you speak …

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Ads….by Al Hadaf
March 10, 2009 – 12:01 pm | 5 Comments
Ads….by Al Hadaf

Al Hadaf a weekly classifieds paper , which comes stuffed into our Arabtimes subscription, is riddled with humorous mistakes…. Seriously they need to either stop the english section, or hire a designer who knows english …

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Review : Australia
March 8, 2009 – 1:04 am | 3 Comments
Review : Australia

We had watched this movie some days back….

Slow Start,
time wasting in the middle,
pearl habour in the end.

The Story line of the movie is good, but i felt they dragged it in the dramatics. Nicole Kidman …

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Celebrations? or Vandalism?
February 25, 2009 – 1:22 pm | 8 Comments
Celebrations? or Vandalism?

Even though i wanted to avoid Gulf Road today and tomorrow and friday and saturday….!!!! i was forced to be on it while going to church, that too, for about 500 Metres only. My car …

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SpamHaus Blocking Complete IP Blocks
February 24, 2009 – 2:25 pm | 3 Comments

Spamhaus has started blocking entire IP blocks. Causing Hundreds of Servers to be blacklist. Currently a couple of people i know fall under one of their block, thuse causing emails to bounce back from major …

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