http://www.diwan.com/dev/greg/ GV Menace » I'm On A Plane Gregarius 0.6.0 en http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/11/its-been-year.html Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:53:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/11/its-been-year.html arooj i cant believe its been almost a year since our last blog here. Coming back to read this, i noticed how i miss blogging and for the first time since my loooong holiday i miss going to work...i'll be blogging here for a while then moving to my own space sometime soon...have a lot of catching up to do... will update soon..cheers ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/02/teeny-weeny-dubai.html Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:33:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/02/teeny-weeny-dubai.html arooj lately i have been going to this gym and bumping into an unpleasant crowd. i just avoided mingling with them by just not revealing my identity. without lying, i left them to their assumptions, and they assumed i wasnt from around here... anyway weeks went by pleasantly and i was happily exercising... until yesterday...wearing my puma cap, waiting for my trainer, i glimpse a familiar face... ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/02/bloggers-block.html Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:58:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/02/bloggers-block.html arooj how funny that the 6 of us on imonaplane are suffering from a bloggers block....lack of time? lack of @#*%(#@??? no idea... anyway i decided to break this bloggers block with utter gibberish and hopes it makes sense.... here goes nothing....4th of Feb... arooj is 26 and one day!!! yesterday was my birthday i turned 26... (bloggers block again arooj fight it)ok let me talk about my day from 12:00 ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/god-bless-your-soul.html Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/god-bless-your-soul.html YAB I was in Kuwait the day he passed away, my brother tried to wake me up at 6 AM telling me that he passed away! and since my brother has a great sense of humor and I was so tired from the night before I thought that he was just trying to wake me up by telling me something so absurd, to get me all worried. but wait a second, he wouldn't joke about death! That's when I woke up!We had to go to the ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/almost-year.html Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:23:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/almost-year.html arooj Its been almost a year since we last met... i wonder what the hell are you doing. i know for a fact that your somewhere "there" and probably you’re married to "them". but what the hell are you still doing there???a funny character, whom was forced to come back home. when finally back, couldn’t wait but to go back again and that is why i suspect they are married "there"...you're too old to be ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/release-of-imac-macbook-pro.html Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:45:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/release-of-imac-macbook-pro.html Foooshy You’ve seen improvements in notebook performance before — but never on this scale. The Intel Core Duo powering MacBook Pro is actually two processors built into a single chip. This, combined with myriad other engineering leaps, boosts performance up to four times higher than the PowerBook G4 and twice times the speed of the previouse iMac. With this awesome power, it’s a breeze to render complex ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/dedicated-to-pink-sushi.html Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:25:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/dedicated-to-pink-sushi.html arooj After reading your last blog, I thought pinki just blogged out what I have been thinking of a lot lately. I would like to quote a few of lines that sums up every “I miss my previous carefree self but simultaneously i am growing to appreciate the more nurtured and spiritually conscious me ... i'm marching through an unstable phase that beholds alot of future mystery lol i think i am getting a bit ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/and-another-one.html Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:48:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/and-another-one.html arooj it seems that the middle east has an unwanted visitor trotting around... ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-video.html Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:29:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-video.html Foooshy Google Video is the world's first open online video marketplace where you can search for, watch and buy an ever-growing collection of TV shows, movies, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more.ENJOY ;) ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-is-true.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:45:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-is-true.html arooj it is true!! we lost him.... ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-year-or-just-another-day.html Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:04:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-year-or-just-another-day.html arooj why do we get so excited about new years? isn’t it just another day where the sun goes down and rises back again? oh well, time in general was created to organize our lives and to have something to look forward to?! each day the twilight gives us a mini alarm that the day is ending or the is just beginning. 7 of those twilights make a week and 4 of those weeks is a month. 12 months later we ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/view.html Mon, 26 Dec 2005 04:12:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/view.html BeSsAh just a couple of pictures i took while chilling in the Kubba bar at al qasr ... i just loved it! ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/seagull-is-bacccckk.html Sun, 25 Dec 2005 23:54:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/seagull-is-bacccckk.html arooj SEAGULL IS BAACCCKKK!!! i.e. meaning me...since I don’t like to use the computer from home anymore, I have restricted my self to the office hours for blogging, email checking, e-shopping, and any other casual surfing, that is of course alongside the remaining work I do on the 'puter here.Annnnnnywaaaay since Xmas is slow at work, i decided to take a couple of days of and relax and de-stress my ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/americas-finest-news-source.html Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:11:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/americas-finest-news-source.html huh If you, like me, are having trouble locating a credible, unbiased news source, that can be trusted on sight...Keep looking and tell me if you find anything!Anyways, this is as close as it gets ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/karting-schmarting.html Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:35:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/karting-schmarting.html Sublime Nymph Psychedelia I have been begged, pleaded, cajoled, threatened and finally was tricked into going Karting at the autodrome. I refused, made excuses and finally when I tired of being a stick in the mud, decided to give in to my better half's boyish fantasy for a 'racer chick'- there is something exciting about it, isn’t there? For someone like myself whose never really been into either car or bike racing, every ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/happy-birthday-arooj.html Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:48:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/happy-birthday-arooj.html arooj Although surrounded by misery lead people, I never appreciated what I had until recently. I am 25 and had my share of miseries throughout the years. Each one was big in its own way, but optimism and positive energy always helped me to pull out of it quickly. I would get upset, but not devastated. Life would go on no matter how big it was. Anyhow, not until recently that I experienced the real ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/iopblogs-up-and-running.html Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:15:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/iopblogs-up-and-running.html YAB iopBlogs is up and running.. sorry we've been so occupied with it and weren't posting much here.. Now 3 aggregators are up and running with over 50 blogs.. UAE was the first then Egypt and South Africa followed 4 days later.. and we expect to add more countries soon..So what are you waiting for?!! Hurry and submit your blog.. ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/no-comment.html Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:04:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/no-comment.html huh no comment ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/attacked.html Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:01:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/attacked.html huh Long story short.....I have been told that our house in Riyadh, Saudi, has been robbed 4 weeks ago. It was around 5:00 pm when my family left the house to go somewhere. 10 min later the house keeper, who was outside (doing something?), was attacked by a man who forced her inside the house and demanded that she gave him all the money she had. The house keeper told him that she had no money, so the ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/colored-pictures-shot-in-1909.html Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:30:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/colored-pictures-shot-in-1909.html huh The images on the top were taken in Russia between the years 1909 and 1915, by Sergei Mikhailovich. Color film was non-existant in that those years, he used his special camera that basically took 3 black and white photos in fast sequence, each with a different color filter, and captured them on the same plate. The photos on the bottom were shot in France in 1914 using colored photographic plates ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/pioneering-comedian-richard-pryor-dies.html Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:59:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/pioneering-comedian-richard-pryor-dies.html huh Richard Pryor startled audiences with his foul-mouthed routines, but his universal and frequently personal insights propelled him into one of Hollywood's biggest stars. The pioneering comedian, whose audacious style influenced generations of standup artists, died Saturday of a heart attack at age 65, said his business manager, Karen Finch.Src Forbes.com ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/dont-yawn.html Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:37:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/dont-yawn.html huh They say that yawning is extremly contagious, and we don't know why it is......."One theory suggests it's a holdover from a period in evolutionary history when yawning served to coordinate the social behavior of a group of animals. A recent study postulates that contagious yawning could be part of the "neural network involved in empathy.""by yahooAnyways take up the challenge....try this game, ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/i-spy.html Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:00:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/i-spy.html arooj This Blog needs some spicing up, and I have no clue what to write about. I really want to blog and blog but really have no idea what to blog about.So here goes utter nonsense.I Spy…I spy with the corner of my little eye…. something begins with the letter P…Any guesses? ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/dubai-blog-blocked.html Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:26:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/dubai-blog-blocked.html huh Etisalat is on a roll with the whole 'blocking cause we can' policy. Apparently a blog called Sorry Dubai was blocked because of a post which criticized Etisalat's monopolizing. I managed to read the cache of the blog, and to tell you the truth....it had it coming. The page which i managed to read mainly consisted of a harsh criticism on plenty of events that take place in Dubai, or as the ]]> http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/our-timings.html Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:00:00 -0500 http://imonaplane.blogspot.com/2005/12/our-timings.html YAB The work is divided between Huh and me, he's working on the designs I'm working on the content and the SQL database.. but I messed up :( ... so we're a bit behind schedule.. he's working at night I'm working during the day.. we never talk except for an hour when our sleep arrangements overlap.Now..... we're ready to launch.. it's official.. it's out.. it's iopBlogs...I'm optimistic!We need your ]]>