Archive for April, 2008
Nadine is a coworker. One of the few that compel me to come into work on some days. She is young, a mother, a wife and a woman who doesn’t take crap from anyone, and God forbid you should have the misfortune of crossing her one day.
With that in mind.
Today she tells me in […]
HM Queen Rania’s latest YouTube video attempts to showcase the evolution of women, specifically in Jordan. It presents a series of jobs and/or roles that women have taken on in the Kingdom.
I agree that we’ve come along way, and that’s an accomplishment that deserves to be highlighted because there are many women who have broken […]
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“The computer is a moron.”
- Peter Drucker
American management writer (1909 - 2005)
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Happy Easter Jordan!
To all Jordanian Christians, a happy Easter to you! The great thing about Easter this year, is that Safeway is selling those delicious Cadbury yolk eggs that you can usually only get in North America. But with a price tag of 1 dinar each, I think I’ll have to wait till Ramadan!
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Apologies for the non-blogging status lately, as well as the failed promise to do some live blogging from my Dubai trip due to technical difficulties. However, I’ve written a feature on 7iber about everything we did at the Learning From The Future workshop in Dubai these past few days, which I hope satisfies the curious […]
One Hundred Thirty Seven: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan was stuck in jail without being charged.
Today, he is free.
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We Are All Fouads
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Dubai
Watch 7iber dot com tomorrow for some interesting posts and a bit of live blogging.
My 6am Wake Up Call…
Purpose…
More Purpose…
The One and Only…
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A few of my delicious pickings from the past few days. Pay particular attention to the more new-media-meets-real-world articles on Facebook and Flickr. I really found those interesting. Makes the world feel a bit smaller than it is.
Staring Contest: An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a […]
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