Lebanon (1)

Pictures taken from:

Bhamdoun

Jounieh

Aley

Rawsha

Faraya

U.S. UNIVERSITY FAIR - March 17th

Marina Hotel, Salmiya

March 17, 2009
Fair Time: 6 p.m.–9 p.m.

Participating Universities:

• Florida Institute of Technology
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
• Lasell University
• Marquette University
In cooperation with
• Ohio State University
• Score Plus / Princeton Review
• San Jose State University
• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• Roger Williams University
• University of Bridgeport
• University of California, Riverside
• University of Kentucky
• University of New Haven
• University of South Carolina
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• West Virginia University

March Equinox

Today is the day when night and day are of equal length. It's called the "March Equinox"

More on the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/march-equinox.html

Source: Weather Forecaster Essa Ramadan

More Cute Stuff

Robot Dreamy Tina 2 GB USB Memory @ $180


Stuffed Care Bears head @ $13
Hello Kitty USB HUB @ $49.99

"Who has the biggest brain" for the iPhone and iPod touch

"Who Has The Biggest Brain? is available for $4.99 from Apple's App Store on iPhone or iPod touch at http://www.itunes.com/appstore" - playfish

Official Press Release is Here

Mars in Google Earth!

Yes You can view Mars in Google Earth 5.0 According to the official Google Blog!

".. You can travel back in time to see the sketches of early astronomers like Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell in the 'Historical Maps' layer. You can also fast-forward more than a century with the 'Live from Mars' layer to view the latest images from NASA's THEMIS camera on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, sometimes just hours after NASA receives them .." - Google Blog

More @ http://earth.google.com/mars/

How to Buy Books for Your Kindle

Problem: We could not process your order because of geographical restrictions on the product which you were attempting to purchase. Please refer to the terms of use for this product to determine the geographical restrictions.

Solution: I first tried entropay.com and it didn't work for me. but the following way worked for me:

1. I bought an amazon gift card for myself.
   
2. I created a new amazon account and registered my kindle.
3. I redeemed my gift card in my new amazon account.
   
4. I made sure no credit cards are saved in my new account and the default payment method is not set for my kindle.
5. I was able then to buy books :)))))))) Amazon will check the gift card balance if no credit card is set for the kindle.
   

March's Books - The List

In addition to January's Books and February's Books,

Here is the new list. This list is dedicated to my cousin who really reads a lot :D

Title	Author	Recommended by
Confessions of a Shopaholic	Sophie Kinsella	libero anima
Eat_Love, Pray	Elizabeth Gilbert	libero anima
child 44	Tom Rob Smith	libero anima
Marley&Me	John Grogan	BloggyLife
Me and Mr. Darcy	Alexandra Potter	Nosayba
A Whole New Mind	Daniel H. Pink	Nosayba
The One Minute Entrepreneur		Bashar
The One Minute Manager	Kenneth H. Blanchard	Bashar
Just For Fun	Linus Torvalds	Bashar
Something borrowed	Emily Giffin	zuz
Something blue	Emily Giffin	zuz
Remember me?	Sophie Kinsella	zuz
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	zuz
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	zuz
All books by	Sophie Kinsella	FourMe

Enjoy :)

Beautiful USB Hub :)

$22 @ here

Source: chipchick

Movie: Marley and Me

A true, beautiful "family/drama/comedy" movie and although I'm not really into family movies but I really enjoyed this one. take your family to the movie and you won't regret it :) more details are here.

Mishref EduCare 2009

8 - 11 March 2009

Some of the participants:

American University of Kuwait
Gulf University for Science and Technology
Australian College of Kuwait
American University of The Middle East
Kuwait University
Box Hill College Kuwait
Kuwait-Maastricht Business School
Michigan State University
Lebanese American University

Info Center Edu-Day, March 28th

Info Center are preparing for an educational day on Saturday, March 28th. There will be many sessions coverings various technologies. I didn't find anything interesting for me but you may find some interesting sessions :)

Book Cafe [pictures] & March Books

I was invited to a facebook group called the "Book Cafe", we liked the idea and today we decided to check the place out. Book Cafe is located at the Omniya Center next to Sultan Center - Salmiya. Here are the pictures:

We didn't stay there, we only wanted to check the place, instead we went here (infront of the cafe):

and we ended up stitching in chocolate bar - marina mall.

Hope you all enjoyed ur weekend :)

and please recommend some books you've read and liked for March. I'm going to post a new list by next week :) the list will be dedicated to my cousin who reads alot :)

My Kindle

My kindle has arrived yesterday :)

Advantages: 

1. I can read any book I want, no more aramex shipping costs.
2. The text to speech feature is awesome! I can let the kindle read the book for me. 
3. I can carry many books in this tiny device. 
4. The built in dictionary which you can use while reading is nice.

Disadvantages:

1. I can only buy the books with a US credit card. I have used my friend's american express this morning. 
2. I can't read pdf files on the kindle. (I will look for a solution)

* there will still be more things but I will need at least a month to give you a good review.

* If anyone is interested in the e-slick please tell me