While updating my Facebook Privacy Settings today due to their new mess of a policy, my eyes got caught on a link I have added under my websites: http://www.poemhunter.com/rita-el-khoury. No, that isn’t a typo. Unbelievable as it may be to those who know me from the Symbian/Nokia blogging scene, I used to be a young (rising) poet once.
I started writing in 1996, at the age of 11, but I eventually threw away everything I wrote in 2000 and decided to start fresh. At the beginning, it was exclusively all French poetry, until 2003 when I noticed I knew enough English words to venture in that area as well. I also have some random Arabic poems here and there. The problem though is that my last poem dates back to October 2007 and it saddens me. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Facebook, PoemHunter, Poetry
Have I said that I love MyMemory.co.uk? Yeah, I guess I already did, but I still feel the need to repeat it. I have already made 8 purchases with them, totaling 13 different items. All deliveries were made in usually 2-3 business days, and all items arrived safe and sound in original packaging. They have reasonable prices, accept Paypal, offer free worldwide delivery, great customer support, and every now and then, they also have awesome bargains.
A few days ago, MyMemory reopened their Clearance Store. Though the name might scare you, there are often a lot of gems in there, like digital camcorders from Sanyo and Panasonic, bluetooth stereo speakers, cases, solar battery chargers… The deal is that all the items in that Clearance Store are subject to a 40% discount with the SAVE40 discount code on checkout. Now this may not be the best deal in town, but when you factor in the fact that some of the items there are already discounted to 30% or 50% or 75%, then it becomes quite obvious that you can easily get out with amazing bargains. The catch is that you never know when an item will be out of stock or get taken out of the Clearance Store, so if you find something there today, it might not be there tomorrow. The good thing though is that every couple of days some items are out and others are in, so if you don’t find anything interesting now, check again later on.
Personally, I snagged the Marware CEO Premiere Leather Case for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch for 3GBP. MyMemory had a 75% deal on it, putting its price down to 5GBP, which is a steal in and off itself, but with the SAVE40 discount code on checkout, I got it for 3GBP (5$), delivered for free to my door. Ain’t that awesome? I’ve been trying to get one for my friend but they instantly went out of stock and now they’re back to a 7GBP price 
If you’re looking for any of the items I mentioned above, or any cheap accessories like memory card readers or cables, I think it’d be 5 minutes well spent if you took a look around that Clearance Store.
Tags: Case, Clearance Store, iPod Touch, MyMemory, Online Shopping
On January of 2007, when I first decided to create my own blog on Vox (link), I didn’t really know what I was getting into and I sure didn’t think of what that small decision would become, 2 and a half years later. What I knew, at the time, was that I was starting from all the wrong grounds:
- I didn’t have the background knowledge : my first and only S60 phone was the 3250 XpressMusic, which was already aging by the time I started blogging about it.
- I didn’t have the right context : I was a 4th year Pharmacy student which obviously has nothing to do with technology, and I was bound to Lebanon which made it almost impossible to get to any important conference or tech showroom or anything.
- And most importantly, I was a girl, a very daring girl in a boy’s world. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blog, Female, Nokia, Technology
I achieved something today, and no one will take it away from me, no matter what. As my About page says, i work in medical research, in particular during the couple of months of my Masters research, I have been tackling colorectal cancer. It’s the first cause of death in both men and women (prostate being the first for men alone, and breast for women alone), and I was given the heavy challenge, by my lab director, to establish something new.
I won’t bore you to death with details, but here’s the small snap of it all. My lab team works on certain proteins who are essential for cancer processes. My wickedly heavy goal is to bring all their 15+ years of work into fruition, by proving that these proteins can be used in some sort of combination therapy strategy with traditional chemotherapy in the future. And today, yes today, I proved it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cancer, Medical Research, Twitpic
Beside Firefox extensions, I have found another way to up my productivity online, and it’s all through the magic that is the Search bar. On the top right of the Firefox window, you’ll find a search bar which I believe defaults to Google search. However, you can find search engines and add them to access your results faster. If you try to manage these plugins from inside Firefox itself, you’ll only get a handful of them, and the official Firefox Add-Ons page gives you some 10 or 20 more. But that sure doesn’t cover every site that you might want to search, right? Enter Mycroft Project.
I don’t recall how I stumbled on Mycroft Project in the first place, but I do know that ever since I’ve found it, it’s been a huge time saver. What does Mycroft Project essentially offer? It’s a part of Mozilla’s developer network and it just lists search plugins for Firefox, for almost every site or service you could ever want to search. You simply click on the plugin and it’s added to your search bar uptop. I hear you asking for examples, so let’s go: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Firefox, Mycroft, Search plugins
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