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(Please install Google Earth before you click on couple of the links - Thanks) Today I updated my Google Earth desktop client and then I decided to surf the world. I first went to view the Pyramids in Egypt and then surfed other places in northeastern Africa and Sudan. I then went to Libya and clicked on a National Geographic Flash movie on Libya . After watching the video, I was reminded of my days when I grew up in Libya. I was in Libya from 1978 to 1981 and afterwhich I use to visit my parents every summer and winter till 1984. We use to live in a town called Al Bayda . Anyway here are somethings I remember: Seeing my first snow fall there The days when we didn't could find anything grocery stores and waited in lines to buy rationed foods. Getting stopped at every 15 km by young Libyan soldiers with machine guns pointing my dad and asking for our "papers. Listening to Ghaddafi speaks for hours in Arabic to the youth (mind you I didn't understand a word) Asked to...

Well here is another entry about the Super Bowl XLI . I am not going to talk about who is going to win, lose, going to get fired or win the MVP award. In this entry I am going to talk about the practical things. Do you want to get tickets to the Super Bowl? If you are then you should go to StubHub.com and buy yourself couple of tickets. While I was writing this blog entry, the tickets ranged from $2700 - $464718 for each ticket. The median was around $3000 per ticket. I then went to Hotels.com and checked out room prices from Wednesday to Monday of this week and the price for a room was $171 to $960 for the week. Well here is a summary of the things I found on the web: Tickets: $2700 - $464718 per ticket; source: StubHub.com Hotel stay for the week: $171 - $960 for the week; source: Hotels.com Round trip Plane tickets from Dc to Miami: $339 - $1147 per ticket; source: Orbitz.com Car Rental: $117 to $216 for the week; source: Orbitz.com Spending money: $500 As you can see, i...

A few months ago I signed up for a MySpace.com account. As I was searching for people, who I know, to increase my personal networks, I came across Don Henderson 's (I know him from church) MySpace page. Don has Johnny Cash's "I walk the line" song on his MySpace.com page. It was the first time I heard the song and I really liked it. Unlike Edith Piaf's song, I believe most of you will agree that Johnny Cash's song, "I walk the line" is quite good. Anyway here is a little bit more about the song. According to Wikipedia , the song was written by Johnny Cash and recorded in 1956. This was Johnny Cash's first number one hit and I believe it is a classic. The rthym is based on "boom-chicka-boom" or "freight train" rthym style which is common in Johnny Cash's songs. I got the lyrics for "I walk the line" song from LyricsOnDemand.com I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the ...

Last night while I was channel surfing, I came across an Ebay commerical which was playing Edith Piaf's famous song "Non, Je ne regrette rien". I remember first hearing this song in my 10th grade French class and ever since then I have really liked Edith's song and tune. I love Edith's voice and yesterday when I heard the song again, I decided to write about that song in my blog. Here are the lyrics of the song which I got from AskLyrics.com : Non, Rien De Rien, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien Ni Le Bien Qu`on M`a Fait, Ni Le Mal Tout Ca M`est Bien Egal Non, Rien De Rien, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien C`est Paye, Balaye, Oublie, Je Me Fous Du Passe Avec Mes Souvenirs J`ai Allume Le Feu Mes Shagrins, Mes Plaisirs, Je N`ai Plus Besoin D`eux Balaye Les Amours Avec Leurs Tremolos Balaye Pour Toujours Je Reparas A Zero Non, Rien De Rien, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien Ni Le Bien Qu`on M`a Fait, Ni Le Mal Tout Ca M`est Bien Egal Non, Rien De Rien, Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien Car Ma Vie,...

After living in the world comprised of Starbucks stores, it is easy to get tempted by their gourmet coffee. Gourmet Coffee? What is that? According Arabica.com , gourmet coffee is high quality coffee. Hmmm...High quality coffee I guess has a stronger coffee taste, flavor and aroma. I am also guessing that gourmet coffee is made from the best of coffee beans, roasted to perfection, and processed precisely and tastes the best. I, personally, can taste good coffee and bad coffee. I can also tell the difference between various types of coffee. Does that make me a coffee connoisseur? Who knows?! All I know is that we as a society are marketed to get the best of everthing including the best coffee. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy my usual Starbucks Coffee , which is a grande White Chocolate Mocha with soy milk and whipped cream; but while I sit at a Starbucks store staring at pedestrians and drinking "gourmet" coffee, I wonder if I am contributing to a bigger problem...

Do you remember the days when a loved one is engrossed doing a crossword puzzle and they would occassionaly interrupt you to ask you a question? Do you know the capital for a certain country which is five letters long and it starts with a "B"? When someone asks me a question like that, I wonder who takes their time to create such brain teasers. Do these "crossword creaters" just say, "let there be this crossword puzzle", or take 2 years crafting clues to their crossword answers? I finally met someone who answered my question. This person actually works with me and creates crosswords which have been published in New York Times , Washington Post , USAToday , Los Angeles Times , etc., and etc., He generates his crossword puzzles with a J2EE program which he wrote. That's pretty awesome! Technology to create entertaining crosswords.

I don't know if you, the reader of this blog, saw Monday's 24 episode. If you didn't and are planning to see it sometime then please don't read this blog entry. Anyway back to Monday night's episode, the viewer got to see Jack Bauer's brother Graem Bauer . Graem Bauer was the bad guy in Season 5 and he was "advicing" Season 5's US President . Here is the quick bio on the character: Jack Bauer's brother Bad Guy Marilyn Bauer, his wife, who had a crush on Jack before she was married with Graem Wears glasses Has a son He is bald After watching the show, I felt for the guy. He always felt that he was inferior to his brother "Jack". Even his wife had feeling for "Jack". Jack this and Jack that. To top it all of, Graem is bald. How bad can it get? The dude looses his hair, looses his girl's heart and looses out to his "better" brother. This made me thinking. Other than Vin Diesel (the actor who cannot act), there is...