Category: Information

This is an easy-to-use plugin to quickly backup your WordPress database. You may download the backup file, or have it emailed to the address of your choice. I just installed it on my blog. [Link]

According to an email from Moe, the movie House of Wax was removed from all theaters in Kuwait by KNCC due to heavy pressure from the Ministry of Information. I have no clue why they would do this since the movie was already heavily cut, maybe Paris HIlton is just banned in Kuwait.

Is it maybe time to quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment? [Link]

I noticed many bloggers are moving around lately either from blogger to WordPress or from Blogspot to a hosted blog. Well I found a link that can help you find free web hosting with no ads. There are a whole variety of hosts, some offering more web space, some offering more bandwidth but they nearly all allow you to setup your own domain. So if you are interested in moving to WordPress or off blogspot and need hosting, this link will help you find a free host. [Link]

Now in case you’re interested, here is a coupon for a $50 discount at my favorite web host DreamHost. Just use the code FIVEZEROOFF when checking out.

Looks like a very gross way of doing it but seems simple enough. Beats mixing KDD cocktail juice with Jackson perfume easily. [Link]

Membership for the months of July and August special prices.

Couple KD140
Single Woman KD80
Single Man KD5000 for sex change operation + KD80

Membership price is for 2 months, July and August only.

Update: This is for the Pool, gym, sauna, squash courts, beach.. full membership.. but hurry up, guy told me they will stop it in the next 2 days.

If you are a runner/biker/etc.. and want to know the distance you ran/biked/etc.. you can now use this handy tool called Gmaps Pedometer. You zoom in to the area where you ran/bikes/etc.. and then you can mark you route and it will tell you the ditance you rant. Here is the link [Link]

Note: when you click on the link and go to the page, once you get there press satellite on the top right. When you find the location you ran/biked/etc.. click on Start Recording then double click your starting point on the map and then just keep double clicking on the route you took, it will draw lines for you and measure your distance.

Do you produce excess ear wax?
Do you have stretch marks?
Do you suffer from chicken skin on your upper arms?
Do you get spontaneous bleeding?
Do you have yellow palms?
Do you get bags or dark rings under eyes?
Do you have a pale appearance?
Do you get excess dandruff?

More… [Link]

Update: Seems my body is telling me I have major vitamin deficiencies!! Need to start eating healthy food or popping vitamin pills..

In 1976 the government established the Reserve Fund for Future Generations, into which it placed an initial US$7 billion. It resolved to invest 10 percent of its revenues annually in the reserve fund. Money from the fund, along with other government revenues, was invested in overseas property and industry. In the 1970s, most of these funds were invested in the United States and in Western Europe: in German firms (such as Hoechst and DaimlerBenz , in each of which Kuwait owned 25 percent), in property, and in most of the United States Fortune Five Hundred firms. In the 1980s, Kuwait began diversifying its overseas investments, placing more investments in Japanese firms. By the late 1980s, Kuwait was earning more from these overseas investments than it was from the direct sale of oil: in 1987 foreign investments generated US$6.3 billion, oil US$5.4 billion. The Financial Times of London estimated Kuwait’s overseas investments in early 1990 at more than US$100 billion, most of it in the Reserve Fund for Future Generations.

The Iraqi invasion proved the importance of these investment revenues. With oil revenues suspended, the government and population in exile relied exclusively on investment revenues, including sales of investments for sustenance, for their share of ongoing coalition expenses and for postwar reconstruction and repair of the vital oil industry. While these funds were depleted to $40-$50 billion after the war, they currently are estimated around $80 billion.

I hate it when I try to visit a site and its blocked. It doesn’t have to be porn, sometimes regular sites are blocked for no reason! This is why yesterday I signed up for Proxify. For $20 every 6 months I can access any site I want without worrying if its blocked or not. You can try it out for free but I think 20$ for 6 months is a very good deal. Incase Proxify.com gets blocked they have other secret urls you could use. Try it out. [Link]

A9.com has done a minor cleanup to their starting page, they also fixed up their Maps page. While maps.google.com shows you satellite images of countries, maps.a9.com is pictures from the ground of store fronts. Of course not all the cities are available and its only US cities but its still really cool. Using maps.a9 I was able to show Nat every shop I passed by when I was in New York on vacation. Shops which I had forgotten their names I was able to find by maps.a9. Try it out. [Link]

You guys know the movie The Terminal right? So you probably know that its based on a true story right? Well did you know the guy is STILL living in the airport? [Link]

War of the Worlds is coming out in Kuwait today, here are the movie showtimes:

Marina – 7:00PM
Marina – 9:15PM
Plaza – 9:15PM
Al-Sharqia – 9:45PM
Al-Fanar – 10:00PM
Al-Kout – 10:15PM
Laila – 10:45PM
Muhallab – 11:15PM
Al-Fanar – 12:15AM
Al-Sharqia – 12:15AM
Al-Kout – 12:30AM
Marina – 12:30AM
Muhallab – 12:30AM

You can book you tickets online using KNCC.com

I was at the Kuwait University today in Shuwaikh doing something for work. When I was done I passed by the cafeteria which to my surprise turned out to be segregated in half, I can’t believe they did that. The funniest part is the Starbucks which is located right in the middle of the dividing wall. So, what you get now is a Starbucks divided in half, half for guys half for girls. In the picture you can notice the white wall on the left, thats the wall that cuts Starbucks in half. I was standing in the male side of Starbucks when I took this picture. Really stupid.

When the movie SuperSize Me came out everyone was like “did you watch it did you watch it?” And I would be like “yeah its bullshit’. No one believed me.

Now a new movie is coming out called “Mickey D’s and Me” that supports my view. The movie is a documentary made by a woman called Soso Whaley who went on a McDonalds diet and ended up losing weight and cholesterol points! Soso believes people are responsible for their weight gain and not the restaurants which I believe is true. Click here to read her interview.