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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Riyadh Will Have the World's Largest Garden!
"The largest series of botanical landscapes in the world is being built in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
The gardens - covering 160 hectares (395 acres) - aims to re-create the 400 million-year-old history of the Earth's plants, trees and flowers."
The gardens - covering 160 hectares (395 acres) - aims to re-create the 400 million-year-old history of the Earth's plants, trees and flowers."
Shared with me by a relative.
My Employment in KACST
Next Saturday, on August 25th, I will start my first job ever, with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
I am very very excited with the new experience, as it seems to be a challenging and exciting one.
The job will be in Riyadh whereas, as you might know, I am born and raised in Jeddah. And although I just came back to Jeddah after 5 years at KFUPM, I am eager with this oppurtunity at KACST, and thankfully am very happy with the support of my family.
Please pray for me and wish me tawfiq!
I am very very excited with the new experience, as it seems to be a challenging and exciting one.
The job will be in Riyadh whereas, as you might know, I am born and raised in Jeddah. And although I just came back to Jeddah after 5 years at KFUPM, I am eager with this oppurtunity at KACST, and thankfully am very happy with the support of my family.
Please pray for me and wish me tawfiq!
Monday, August 20, 2007
The Witty Paul Harvey
http://www.paulharvey.com/
I used to listen to his program on NPR when I was in Khobar.
I used to listen to his program on NPR when I was in Khobar.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Innovators: IDEO
http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/2006/08/david-kelley-founder-of-ideo.html
This podcast is an interview with David Kelley.
"David is the founder of the famous design consultancy IDEO, which has won more design awards over the past decade than any other firm."
He is also the author of at least two books on innovation. He talks about his 2005 book "The Ten Faces of Innovation" in this podcast:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail821.html
This podcast is an interview with David Kelley.
"David is the founder of the famous design consultancy IDEO, which has won more design awards over the past decade than any other firm."
He is also the author of at least two books on innovation. He talks about his 2005 book "The Ten Faces of Innovation" in this podcast:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail821.html
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Photo of the Week!
Yemeni presedent Ali Abdullah Salih gaining momentum (notice his left leg) for a warm handshake with W.! Shared with me by a relative.
Microsoft's Aim to Monopolize Robotics!
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5391
The vision of Bill Gates seems to never cease. Well, if this project works out, Microsoft will likely reign in putting robotics into public (consumers!) hands, just like it did with the the IBM PC architecture.
The weird thing as you can see from this article is that the old Bill Gates school of proprietary software seems to be shaken with the open-source school in the fact that they are putting the software written so far for the public for their own use and development!
Also please notice how Windows CE was mentioned.
So, will we see convergnce between the two schools in the near future?
The sure thing here is that robotics will soon enter mainstream manufacture, and Microsoft knows that. They also really want to and think they know how to take over this new industry!
The vision of Bill Gates seems to never cease. Well, if this project works out, Microsoft will likely reign in putting robotics into public (consumers!) hands, just like it did with the the IBM PC architecture.
The weird thing as you can see from this article is that the old Bill Gates school of proprietary software seems to be shaken with the open-source school in the fact that they are putting the software written so far for the public for their own use and development!
Also please notice how Windows CE was mentioned.
So, will we see convergnce between the two schools in the near future?
The sure thing here is that robotics will soon enter mainstream manufacture, and Microsoft knows that. They also really want to and think they know how to take over this new industry!
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