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Blog Stats – October 2005

October had the highest amount of unique visitors to this blog with a total of 26,319, over 4 times the amount of September which was only 6,826 unique visitors. The highest amount of unique visitors in one day was 1,704 and that was on the 27th of October. The lowest amount of visitors was 722 and that was on October 1st.

For more up-to-date stats you can click the Website Stats link on the bottom of the right hand side column.




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Information Internet

Top 100 Blogs

Here are the Top 100 Blogs according to Technorati. [Link]




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Interesting Internet

Radiohead Blog

Found via Kottke, Radiohead just started a blog. [Link]




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Information

What Everyone Should Know About Blog Depression

This is a link to a 6 page pamphlet meant as a public service to help educate bloggers about this growing problem of blog depression:

There is a growing epidemic in the cyberworld. a scourge which causes more suffering with each passing day. as blogging has exploded and, under the stewardship of the veterans, the form has matured more and more bloggers are finding themselves disillusioned, dissatisfied, taking long breaks, and in many cases simply closing up shop. this debilitating scourge ebbs and flows but there is hardly a blogger among us who has not felt it’s dark touch. we’re speaking, of course, about blog depression. [Read More]




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Blog Stats – June 2005

5876 unique visitors in June (4036 in May)
2.61 GB worth of bandwidth consumed (1.73 GB in May)
Most visits was on June 28th with 610 unique visitors

Finally, there are currently 665 posts and 1,907 comments, contained within 48 categories.




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Design Links

INKed Blog

A blog dedicated to tattoos! I have been wanting to get a full arm (from wrist to shoulders) tattoo forever but I just can’t afford it. When I went to New York I about a tiny tattoo and it was going to cost me $150 so a full arm tattoo would mean I would to get a loan from the bank.. [Link]




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Blog Info

Blog Update

Today I will be updating the sites theme so you might come in a find things looking normal and you might find things looking strange. Be patient with me because I don’t have a lot of free time to work on this but I am trying my best to get it working the looking the way I want it to. Thanks.




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Kuwait Photography

Chips on Moblogging from Kuwait

Found 3 pictures of Chips on my Moblogging from Kuwait site, here they are:

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3




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Kuwait Movies Personal

Bloggers Meetup at the Movies

I just got back from watching Star Wars at Fanar. I went with Nat, Fadibou, Missundaztoood, Tivo Guy and Calmness. Fanar is definitely a much better movie theater then Marina. The sound was great and the theater much larger, the whole experience was much better then my marina one. The company I was with was also great, we booked the tickets from KNCC.com earlier in the day so we were able to get excellent seats next to each other. Even if we hadn’t booked beforehand I dont think we would have had a problem getting decent seats, the theater was basically empty, not a lot of Star Wars fans in Kuwait it seems. Thinking about the movie now, I think it was actually pretty good, specially if you look at it from episode 1 all the way to 6. Lucas managed to merge them all together very smoothly.

I can’t wait till they come out with the Star Wars Sixology DVD set, that would be amazing..




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Food & Drinks Kuwait Personal

Blogger Meetup – May 2005

Just came back from a blogger meetup. It wasn’t planned as one but it turned into one. I had lunch with Tivo-Guy, Missundaztoood and Fadibou at Starbucks in Salhiya. The meetup was very cool, we mostly sat and talked about the PSP and Halo2, and Fadi was telling us about how Microsoft Longhorn will kick ass when it comes out in 2015. Compared to the planned “official” meetups, I think our unplanned one faired out evenly even-though we didn’t have an invisible celebrity guest!




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Blog Stats

There are currently 398 posts and 1,190 comments, contained within 28 categories.




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Kuwait

Celebrity Blogger Conspiracy

No celebrity blogger attended the monthly blogger meetup. The idea of a celebrity blogger was made up to create hype and attract people to the meeting. There is no celebrity blogger and thats why no one is saying who it was. The hype worked though, 4 people attended the meeting this time!

Interesting quotes from the bloggers who attended the meeting:

Forzaq8: “and the mystery blogger , who is way too scared about privicy , i have no idea how he agreed to come”

Purgatory72: “Now, the mystery blogger showed up somewhere around 6.45 pm. I was surprised to see him, I thought it was a hoax, but turned out to be true. The guy was very nice and articulate and was also famous. Now because of private matters related to the person himself, I cannot say anything more on how he looks like, which blog is his blog”

Here is a conversation between me and Nibaq:
Me: So who was the celebrity blogger?
Nibaq: Can’t tell you
Me: Ok, I figured it out, will post about it
Nibaq: what you going to post? a CSI type thing?

Update: More proof it was a fake. On forza’s blog he posts two pictures from the meetup, one of someone shaking hands with the mystery blogger and the other of the mystery blogger signing a book. He then says that after the handshake the mystery blogger signed the book. BUT, according to the pictures exif information, the first picture of the handshake was taken at 8.21pm while the second of the signing was taken at 8.18pm. Interesting..

Update 2: This is an enhanced crop taken from one of Forzaq8’s pictures. It supposingly the signature of the mystery blogger. Looks like gibrish to me.

Update 3: Further investigation has revealed the both of Forza’s pictures were taken with the exact same settings:

Exposure: .125 sec (1/8)
Aperture: f/5.2
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 320

Yet one turned out ot be extremely blurry while the other was fine, as if when shooting the signature picture the camera was deliberately shaken. Also according to the pictures and my personal experience of the Second Cup branch in Kuwait City, the place inside isnt very dark and according to the shadows on the open book, there was a light source right above they area they were seated. So I believe if the Apreture was set to 2.8 instead of 5.2 (which the Sony P8 cam can handle) and the shutter speed increased then there would have been no chance of the picture coming out blurry, specially since the camera iso was set at 320. By default the camera would have changed the apreture to 2.8 when the shutter speed became very slow but they wanted the picture to come out blurry so they manually changed the settings.




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Kuwait Photography

Blogger Issues

I uploaded todays picture onto flickr but I am having problems with blogger. I keep getting a 504 Gateway Timeout everytime I go to blogger.com. Sucks. Here is todays picture.




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Interesting Internet Links

How to Blog Safely

Tips on how to remain anonymous and other tips. Link




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Personal

Video Game Blog

Ok I noticed I am turning 2:48AM into a videogame blog bit by bit with all these PSP posts, I think I need to find other things to talk about…