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Le Pain Quotidien Palms

By Ian on July 3, 2010 in Food, Kuwait

I picked up my regular bread at PQ today. And gave the new Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro a tryout.

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Why is Kuwait always the hottest place on earth?

By Ian on July 1, 2010 in Kuwait, Weather

Middle East Weather Observations

From the good Kuwait Meteorological Center page. this afternoon at 2:00 p.m.

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I’ve signed up for Zenfolio to store and distribute my images. No more messing around with software etc. You can even directly purchase prints from the site. They even have free music tracks to use with the slideshows.

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I’m Back

By Ian on May 9, 2010 in Geek

Hooray the site is coming back now on Firefox. So the cleanup worked.

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Hacked

By Ian on May 8, 2010 in Geek

Damn. This site was hacked probably because I had weak passwords on some ftp accounts that I don’t use. So some malicious files were put on the site. Lesson learned. Hopefully it comes up soon. You can currently get at it via MS Explorer but Firefox gives:

I’m going through the steps to get it off the nasty list. Let’s see how long that takes.

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Kuwait Ministry Safety Advice

By Ian on April 28, 2010 in Kuwait

The English translations are interesting!

Entertainers should not Baltiarat paper side of the towers bearing electrical wires because Flyer had engaged in those wires and lead to the person who stunned by Merrymake

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Adobe Flash

By Ian on April 10, 2010 in Geek

I will be glad when Flash is gone. And frankly Adobe deserves it to go away as they do things like this. Look at what you get when you download flash. Look closely at the McAfee Scan checkbox. Make darn sure you don’t have it checked or McAfee will install and will be a pain as it is very hard to uninstall. McAfee is a legitimate anti-virus company but this is not reputable in my mind. I could accept it if the default was to not install it.

The anti-virus companies are getting more and more desperate since Microsoft is now offering a free anti virus solution which I use everywhere.

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Sarrayat Season is Starting

By Ian on April 4, 2010 in Kuwait, Weather

SARRAYAT (9thApril – 13 th May )

This is the season of sarrayat ( Local thunderstorms),they usually develop in the afternoon or during night and are occasionally accompanied with severe dust storms during which visibility may fall to zero. The resulted rain may be very heavy and usually occur during a few minutes (maximum intensity of 38.4 mm during 20 minutes was recorded on 4th April 1967 at Kuwait International Airport ). The south – easterly winds during this peroid become hot and humid . Air temperature is characterized by sudden changes and may drop to 10C within one minute . Temperatures from one day to another are changeble by particularly during the period 11th-30th April;they may rise to the summer mean level for a few days then drop to a noticable degree due to the influence of the north – westerly winds . Seabreeze is predominant during May, shifting the north -westerly winds of the morning to easterly in the afternoon, tremperature mean ranges between 30C at the beginning of this period and 40 C at the end .

Thunderstorms are likely to occur during the intervals : 8 th – 12th , 16th, 22nd, 26th, April and 7th – 10th May.

More on the climate on the KT Agrifood site.

And if you don’t believe it check out the weather forecast.

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