Yasser Has Things To SayYasser Has Things To SayBlog about different things from the point of view of a college student. Articles
Price of A Life.
2008-05-06 06:15:00 As I’m doing my research for a term paper I have to do, I found this article called Sometimes in War, You Can Put A Price In A Life . The article talks about different ways and situations where prices are given to human life. If you would ask anyone rational the price of life they would say that it’s priceless. Apparently some people have thought of “great” ideas of giving price to life. In a certain case they considered $2,000 a reasonable price for Afghanistan’s life. This is a ridiculous low amount for a life, at least in my opinion. This price was given to people who got shot during the war but were innocent people. In the same scenario 50 other people got injured but received no money. It is true that war brings out the worse in people. Even people who die in airplane crashes get more money than this and those are really bad accidents. War is less than an accident. But this is just my opinion. Yasser
Iron Man.
2008-05-04 18:39:00 I know it has been a long while since I post anything and specially comments about a movie but I think this one deserves the attention. Iron Man is officially one of the coolest movies of this year. The year is just starting and a lot of movies are looking good but this one is ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Fat America.
2008-03-24 23:27:00 The United State’s is known as the fattest country in the world. And it is slowly getting to be known as one of the most uneducated countries (statistics, not calling people stupid). I came from Dominican Republic where my mom would cook almost every day a decent food (by decent I mean not full of ... More About: America , Donald
My Blackberry Pearl.
2008-03-07 07:21:00 I finally got a new phone and it is exactly what I have been wanting for a while, a Blackberry Pearl . It is the nicest phone I have seen in a while and it is full of applications. Most PDA are a bit big but this one is the perfect size. I have also become ... More About: Gadgets , Thoughts
U.S. Border Patrol and Racism.
2008-03-02 21:48:00 Immigration and border patrol’s have now been more focused on catching illegal immigrants at bus stops and at train stations. Yesterday I witness the way they treat people who don’t seem to have the write papers to prove they are legal in the country. When I got in an Amtrak train, border patrol was checking ... More About: Racism , Border Patrol
Qtrax, Free and Legal Music to Download.
2008-01-27 23:47:00 Update: Reuters.com is reporting that the major record labels have said that this information is false. They have not signed a contract with Qtrax but they were working together on beta testing. So now we would have to wait and see if any of the major record labels would actually sign the contract which ... More About: Music , Entertainment , Download , Free , Legal
The Super Bowl Economy.
2008-01-27 17:14:00 One of the biggest t.v. programs of the year is going to air on February 3rd. It is no lie that the Super Bowl is one of the most watch t.v. shows of the year, even people that don’t watch football love watching the Super Bowl. One of the greatest part of this event is ... More About: Economy , The Super
Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names.
2008-01-25 16:21:00 I found this great article in ITworld.com about the history of five generic domain names: milk.com , meat.com, music.com, eat.com and car.com . These would be names worth a lot in the domain real estate business but yet none of them started as what their name says, they were all geeky websites. It would be ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Curious , Generic , Names
Why The United Nations Doesn?t Work ?
2008-01-22 02:03:00 The topic for discussion in my Intro to International Relations class was the United Nations . Most people know the name but know little about the organization itself. The definition according to Wikipedia is: The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, ... More About: Work , Thoughts
How To Do Things.
2008-01-19 17:53:00 The great thing about the internet is that when we want to learn how to do something we no longer need a book. We can always search for it online and hopefully find a good website that explains things slowly or at whatever speed you desire. Sometimes it is hard finding these websites that have ... More About: Things
Yahoo Implements OpenID.
2008-01-17 16:41:00 Yahoo has recently improved their service in OpenID. It now has over 100 million users ID and it could be used in 9,000 websites so far. OpenID is a project that Yahoo has that enables people to have one account that is valid for hundreds and thousands of websites. That means that you wont have ... More About: Yahoo , Tech
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008-01-15 03:02:00 Finally a new show that I could look forward to watching. The Sarah Connor Chronicles started yesterday (Jan. 13th) and it was a great first show. It reminds me of the first time I saw Terminator I and Terminator II. They even used some famous quotes from the movie like “come with me if you want to live”. They also used the same house where they killed the guy who “created” the war of robots. Just from one episode I could say that it is going to be a great show this season and I recommend it to anyone who likes good shows, specially if you were a fan of Terminator. The whole series is based on what happened after Terminator II, the kid is a bit older and new adventures await. Don’t miss it. Yasser More About: Sarah Connor
Bye Bye MySpace.
2008-01-14 02:06:00 I finally got rid of my MySpace account . It was something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time but never did until today. The reasons why I didn’t want to delete it was the fact that it’s a good way to keep in contact with friends who are very far away ... More About: Myspace , Thoughts
Steal This Wi-Fi by Bruce Schneier.
2008-01-10 18:09:00 The security expert Bruce Schneier has recently written an article on Wired.com about using Wi-Fi networks that don’t have password protections. His position on this topic is, use it. His own wireless network is not protected so others can use it. The way he sees it is that other people benefit from it. This might ... More About: Security , Steal , Steal This
Iowa Caucuses, The Presedential Race.
2008-01-04 18:11:00 I haven’t been following politics lately because I already feel informed of what is going on. As usual Mike Gravel is always excluded from talking and lately from participating in the Iowa Caucuses . Surprisingly, Hillary Clinton didn’t win at Iowa but it is no surprise that she is in the lead and to me it ... More About: Politics , Race , Iowa caucuses
12 Web Applications To Help College Students.
2008-01-03 22:48:00 I found this article that mentions 12 Web Applications to help college students be more successful or at least be more organized. A couple of them I already use like the # 1 which is Facebook. The only thing is that they don’t really say why it is useful. To me it’s useful to keep ... More About: College , Students
Changing The World.
2008-01-03 05:10:00 A great way to start 2008 is by thinking of others. We all see the commercials on tv and remember that there are people and kids out there that are less fortunate and need our help. I’m a college student and can’t really afford to be giving away money but I can afford to give ... More About: World , Thoughts , Changing , The World
Google Adsense Killers For 2008.
2008-01-02 02:42:00 We all know that online advertisement is one of the greatest growing market and everyone who has a website or blog wants some piece of that pie. I’ve been using Adsense for a while and to tell the truth it doesn’t pay much. It is great for websites that get over 1,000 visitors per day ... More About: Google , Tech , Blogging , Google Adsense
What Happened In 2007.
2007-12-31 21:27:00 Here is a quick run through the things that I consider interesting that happened during 2007. These are things I blogged about and there are plenty of more interesting things that I didn’t blog about that also happened. Here is the run down by month: January: MySpace Power: MySpace used it’s power to shut down a website ... More About: Thoughts
Australia Is Going To Censor Internet.
2007-12-31 17:42:00 The Australia n government has agreed on filtering internet content from the people living in Australia. They join China who has been censoring their internet for a long time now and has created lots of controversy. The reason why Australia wants to censor its internet is because they had supplied Net Nanny to every consumer but ... More About: Politics , Internet , Tech , Goin
Netscape Browser, Discontinued.
2007-12-29 03:25:00 I just read the sad news that AOL is discontinuing the Netscape Browse r . This might not mean much to many because they don’t know the importance of Netscape in web development. Netscape was one of the biggest, most used browsers back in the day and it was more popular than internet explorer. Netscape once had ... More About: Tech
New Years Is Around The Corner.
2007-12-28 17:41:00 I’m very happy to be in Dominican Republic for my Christmas vacation with my family. New Years is around the corner which doesn’t mean as much to me as it does to others. It is always seen as the time of the year to have a “fresh start”, make everything better and make big changes. ... More About: Thoughts , Corner , New Years , The Corner
Lupe Fiasco, The Cool.
2007-12-26 18:54:00 I had talked about this awaited album called The Cool by one of my new favorite artist’s Lupe Fiasco . He just keeps delivering all the time, with his nice beats and his smooth lyrics. In this new album he introduces his “Cool” side and defined as The Coolest Nigga. It’s now one of my favorite ... More About: Music , Entertainment
Google Knol, Wikipedia killer and money maker.
2007-12-18 03:14:00 The new hot topic on the internet is the announced Google Knol which is meant to be a Wikipedia “killer”. Wikipedia has been announcing a search service that would be able to compete with Google in most categories since most people already look in Wikipedia for “accurate” information and homework. But they have had a ... More About: Money , Tech , Killer
I Am Legend.
2007-12-17 01:32:00 It had been a long time since I’ve gone to the movie theater but yesterday I decided to go with a couple of friends to see I Am Legend . The story is very similar to 28 weeks later. The population has been infected with a virus and there seems to be only one person alive ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Advertising In PDF Files.
2007-12-01 19:06:00 Yahoo recently announced that they will be putting contextual advertising in PDF files. As if we didn’t have enough adds and pop-ups in the internet. This is great news for advertisers, horrible news for the regular people that read these PDF files. It’s no secret that one of the new big markets in internet is ... More About: Advertising , Tech , Files
Kanye West, Graduation.
2007-11-27 03:51:00 It’s been a long time since I talk about music so might as well do it now than never. What I’ve been hearing the most lately is Kanye West latest album, Graduation . It is without a doubt one of the best album of the years. Every song is good, every beat is good. There are ... More About: Music , Entertainment |
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