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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

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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Cross Dressing in the Middle East

Some young women in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are wearing baggy pants and cutting their hair short, causing unease among traditionalists.

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From Camels to SUVs – Emirates’ first female film producer tackles pedophilia

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ATM skimmers, man, these things are scary

I’ve heard of these happening in the Emirates. Be careful!

ATM skimmers: man, these things are scary Boing Boing.

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The Unseen Gulf War

Here are the photos of The Unseen Gulf War, by Peter Turnley.
From the Online Photographer where there is more on Peter Turnley.

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Norbert the Cat and his Christmas Present

He got this kids stuffed rat from Ikea. I thought it might be stuffed with catnip or something but it is just a kids toy. And he sure knew what to do. Some cool moves. Incredible what instincts the cats have in them.

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Moving Panoramas

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Christmas Craft and Gift Ideas

For some great ideas in the Holidays from Instructables

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BSK 2009 Performance of Evita Slideshow

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