This some of the blogs that I have been recently enjoying, lots of blogs pop up that I don’t have a clue about and that I stumble upon from other blogs and clicking a few names. I took a few of them and tried to categorize them into three different categories, and still there a few that I miss out on but I’m always looking.
Technology
- Anything Goes- Technical, Practical, lots of great info for anyone in technology
- BlogAllAlong – Technical outlook, quick fixes, modifications, a fantastic technical blog
Unique
- YearOfTheTeddy- Amazing photography and social blogging
- BrakeBanzeen- My feed for real car info, and even gets it before the major blogs
- Bu-Yousif – Fantastic Photoblog and storyline to follow it!
- re:kuwait – Unique Architectural Outlook
- NegativEffect – A unique and talented Kuwait PhotoBlog
Fun
- 4thRing- Lots of Laughs, and good info!
- Codename: Q Valley – Unique blog with fun interviews
- Ansam518 – Good Food
- Storm In A Tea Cup – Video Games, Anime, Books!
- UpTillOne – Trying things out and posting it, always good to learn from other’s experience, lots of good info, I purchased the Google Nexus One after they posted about it
- CouchAvenue- Obsessed with Mac!
- BuzBerry - Lots of great reviews, and they develop their own Apple Application!
- TouchOfMeh- Three guys with different tastes and some very useful facts
- SomeContrast- I always checked out a few places in Kuwait after they post reviews
I do love when talented Kuwaiti Photographers post up their pictures online, and one of those is NegativEffects. He has honed his skills and still developing it, turning to Apple as his preferred machine of editing and tweaking. So many unique shots and ideas when putting pictures together. I love his talented work because I see the same objects in front of me but I don’t see how he comes up with the ideas for pictures, I will take what tips I can from his pictures but fantastic shots, and recently added to my Google Reader.
He is also the talent behind the Desert Kings 2 Jokers Kuwait that I posted a while ago about, and he is the talent who has helped put together the latest GulfRun 5 videos. A great combiantion of photo and video talent, I’m looking forward to more from NegativEffects, check out his Photo-blog and enjoy.
Link: NegativEffect
Just got listed on this new Kuwait Blogs Aggregator which seems to be very easy and fun to read. You can easily submit your blog with image your would like associated with it, I chose the usual Z as the symbol and some really interesting blogs on there. And I really do like the name to Botamba, the blog listing is done through icons on the right, I have a feeling thats going to grow big and really fast, I don’t know how they plan on handling a lot of listings at a later point but for now its a good start.
Link: Botamaba
Now this has turned into a festive Christmas Day, luckily it came on a Friday so everyone was busy with Christmas. To my surprise the streets were practically empty today, most of everyone left town for New Years festivities and those who are celebrating Christmas are probably home or at Church so riding today was a lot of fun. 2009 is coming to an end, this whole December flew by, I have been ridiculous busy with work and family stuff that days were flying by. I still have 6 months of Anime downloads to catch up on, that is probably going to be a lot of work to catch up on but going to be worth it, I have caught up with a lot of TV shows. What an interesting year, lots of ups and downs, I’m just enjoying the weather and riding these days.
Link: GeekTyrant
When I was reading through ChilloutKuwait’s blog she recommended this blog as something fresh, so I thought to check it out and before even reading what it was all about I was caught up with the photographs. At first I was just looking at the photographs normally, then I noticed the little teddy bear in most of the photo’s and started reading the information, then going backwards to other posts. A project on a daily basis with Teddy as the main character doing volunteer work, connecting with people, some interesting photos, some controversial, some very nice shots all together. A really nice original twist to the photograph idea, with some really interesting projects during this whole time worth keeping an eye on, amazing story & photographs.
Link: ChillOutKuwait
Link: YearOfTeddy
Every once in a while I get one of these very hateful people who just want to insult or directly harm you with their words. I really don’t understand why they are like that when there is no reason to be all worked up. The funny part it isn’t a contreversial issue, this person just tried to directly insult me and say something mean. The funny part is over the years I have turned to dealing with them into an art form, just ignore them, its as simple as that. They aren’t stating a different opinion, they are just leaving insults so they are easy to ignore, and the funny part is that they think they can’t be traced because they left a fake email. In this person’s case he was mistaken since all I had to do was an IP Look up, turns up the comment came from Jahra, and through Zaijil networks so I know where to go if I really want to find out. Technology entertainingly works both ways, it even gave me the longitude and latitude so I’m assuming its really close to it. (Click the top image for a bigger picture)
I tend to follow car blogs a lot, to see whats coming next, what are the numbers of the next machines. What else manufacturers have lined up or the troubles some of these companies face. One of these new blogs is Brake Banzeen, I have been following this Kuwaiti blog for some time now and I like it, he tends to have some information before those main car blogs do and sometimes he has some really good juicy videos to watch that make my mouth water seeing some of those machines, like the details on the new M5. If you like cars or anything with four wheels then this blog should be added to your list, I hope he transfers to a main address rather then a wordpress address soon.
Link: Brake Banzeen
Luckily for me Meshoo has some time on her hands with everything she has had to do with family. I have been preparing my complaint list for a while now, one day at work I got a message saying my blog was being upgraded and she was upgrading it from 2.7 to 2.8.
There are some minor differences, it is a bit cleaner in the back end but everything remains the same except for the image uploading. I have always faced a problem with the flash uploader for Wordpress and it just wouldn’t work with Firefox or Chrome, I would have to go to Explorer 6.0 and upload image by image which was time consuming. Luckily this update made the fix so you can upload the traditional way or through the flash uploader, images are managed better and you can access them more easily.
Another small issue was that the categories wasn’t being retrieved correctly, some code was off so the data wasn’t being retrieved correctly. I can safely say now that the categories are fixed you can access them normally, I knew I was annoyed because I constantly used them.
Thanks Meshoo!
It seems ZDistrict has been listed as motorcycle sales company, and went searching through google there was this reference. Now that made me laugh, any motorcycles I do have are for my use only.
Thanks Yousef!
I have been a user of statcounter for a while for all my stat drilling needs for the blog and other websites. Didn’t really think much of switching to Google Analytics even though I keep reading a lot about it. I switched it on a couple of days ago for the blog and the information is pretty interesting and the way the reports are presented to you, the best part about all these tools is that its for free. Lifehacker had a post about Polaris, which takes all the Google Analytics data and presents it for you on your desktop. Polaris is an Adobe Air application which presents all the information with an attractive look and feel, free for personal use and $15/year to handle multiple profiles.
Link: DesktopReporting
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