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Like the Stone Accoustic Version
2008-05-07 20:59:00
Music & Media - I really liked Audio Slave as a band while they lasted. The power of Rage Against the Machine and Voice of Sound Garden. My most favorite song from them was of course “Like A Stone ” and after band broke up, Chris Cornell did an acoustic version of this song which ...
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Spammers Go Away!
2008-05-06 19:34:00
SEO / SEM - Today I logged in to this blog and I have over dozen of new comments needed to be moderated but most of them were pure junk and spam. So I click on spam button that deletes those comments hopefully prevents the user’s IP address in future to post on this ...
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Beach Soccer 2008 Tournment Pictures
2008-05-04 21:40:00
Soccer - Beach soccer tournament this year was good. I am a bit unhappy because they didn’t allow us to sell Sand Socks because another vendor had exclusive rights to sell Beach Soccer balls and Beach Soccer Socks and had we known that, we would not have ordered so many of them and it was ...
More About: Pictures , Soccer , 2008

Manchester United?s Cristiano Ronaldo Named Player of the Year
2008-05-02 23:07:00
Soccer - The Portuguese soccer star, Cristiano Ronaldo who currently plays for the English powerhouse club of Manchester United , has been name the Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. As an Arsenal fan, I admit this guy is great and has been the winning card of Manchester United this year. He is in ...
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Nice New Nike Soccer Commercial
2008-05-02 02:06:00
Soccer - Nike has this new soccer commercial that I like very much. I specially like the part this commercial done with Arsenal soccer team.
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SEO 101
2008-05-02 00:10:00
SEO / SEM - Last week there was a Web 2.0 conference held in San Fransisco and although I didn’t get to go, one of my colleagues went and in that conference, they discussed various topics on Web 2.0 one of those topics was SEO. My colleague forwarded a nice power point presentation that I thought ...

World’s Most Overpaid CEOs
2008-05-01 22:22:00
Life Venting - We are in recession and many companies are failing while these CEOs continue to make their millions each year regardless of their performance. This is why I don’t buy stocks. This is why I think people are wasting their money when buying stocks. It is just NOT FAIR!
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Chelsea Beats Liverpool will Meet Manchester United for the Finals
2008-05-01 04:18:00
Soccer - Champions League finalist are two EPL teams. Chelsea beat Liverpool 3-2 on overtime and will meat Manchester United May 21 in Moscow. I am an Arsenal fan, who are from London and unfortunately Arsenal didn’t make it this year but if I have to pick a side between Chelsea and Manchester United, I will pick the London Club Chelsea. They were the underdogs this year and they have great chances of beating Manchester United for the Champions League AND they have a great chance of winning EPL as they have tied in points in the EPL table with Man. U. I never thought I would say this but Go Chelsea! Oh yah one more thing, if you are looking to buy a Chelsea soccer jersey and gear or Manchester United soccer jersey and gear, look no further. Check out Soccer Nation online Soccer store as these items are on sale.

Beach Soccer Tournment This Weekend
2008-04-30 22:48:00
Soccer - The second annual Beach Soccer Tournament is this weekend in Harbor beach in Oceanside and Soccer Nation is a sponsor at the Beach Soccer tournament this year again. Last year it was a blast, we had a lot of fund and got a lot of exposure. This year more players are expected so looking forward to it.  To learn more about this event, check out BeachSoccerUsa.org.
More About: Soccer , Weekend

Web 2.0 and CSS Sites
2008-04-30 18:49:00
Web Development - Web 2.0 is now more than just a buzz word and good web developers are actually coding their pages according to web 2.0 conventions. CSS is in heart of web 2.0 and unlike HTML which is very limited, you can do a whole a lot more with CSS. I have been coding my web pages all in CSS for a while. I try to use tables only for tabular data. I have learned a great deal by just looking at other sites and see how they do things. Here are a few of those sites: CSS Mania Zeldman SimpleBits A List Apart Josh Nolan More to come.
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Regarding the Obama Badge on my Site
2008-04-30 01:23:00
Politics - I am not really into politics these days. My days of activism is over. Back in college I had time to spend time in school clubs and societies. Now I care more about my career and creating a family with my Fiance as soon as possible. I wasn’t planning to support any running ...
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US Expert: Iran?s Sharif University is World?s Best Technical School
2008-04-27 00:12:00
Life- I remember when I was going to high school in Iran , every friend of mine who wanted to become an engineer wanted to go to Sharif University of Technology. When it comes to technology, this school compares to top technical universities in the world such as MIT, Oxford, Harvard, and others. It is a ...
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Ubuntu 8.04 is Released
2008-04-24 23:29:00
Linux - Ubuntu , one of the most favoirate distrobutions of Linux is officially released and you can download the entire operating system from Ubuntu website, of course for free. I am very excited because I haven’t ran Linux since Redhat 6.2, which you can imagine was years ago. I have a couple of sites that run ...
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I Recommand Nerdbooks.com
2008-04-24 22:13:00
Shopping - If you are looking to buy a new technical book, perhaps a new programming or a networking book, I recommadn Nerdbooks.com where I recently bought my ASP.NET 3.5 book. The site is extremly simple and easy to use, just how Amazon.com was way in the days when they only sold books before they turned ...
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World?s Longest Wall in Persia!
2008-04-22 19:20:00
Life - If you ask most people what is the world’s tallest wall, they will answer the great wall of China. Well now you can tell them “wrong”! It is by far the most sophisticated wall that was made in ancient Persian which is in current Iran. “Red Snake” or “The Great Wall of Gorgan” is ...
More About: Life , World , Longest

AS Roma Selling to an American?
2008-04-19 01:31:00
Soccer - There are rumors that American billionaire George Soros is interested in buyign AS Roma which is one of the Italian soccer club. AS Roma represenative verified that they are talking to “an interested party” but declined to indicate who this party is.According to Italian Media, Soros Fund Management LLC, company owned ...
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Google to go deep within your website
2008-04-17 01:02:00
SEO - Typically search engines are incapable to index the web forms and secure pages so SEO experts usually don’t care about optimzing those pages. Well now Google is changing the rules. They are going to index all the forms and pages within your website that they didn’t in the past in order to collect ...
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Using Open Office for the Business, I Recommand It
2008-04-15 20:54:00
Software - I recently built a new computer for the business and since I didn’t want to sue prirated software for the business (not that I do for personal use ), I ended up downloading, installing, and running Open Office 2.4. I must admit I am pretty impressed by all the featues and how smooth ...
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Microsoft?s CEO Steve Ballmer Interviewed by Guy Kawasaki at MIX08
2008-04-10 03:59:00
Technology - Despite what many people believe and say about Microsoft , I have ultimate respect for Microsoft. It is the biggest software company and I am a user. And yes I do choose to be one. I have option to work in an open source eniovrnment or run Mac at home, yet I stick to ...
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New Good Service by Yahoo
2008-04-10 01:00:00
SEO - If you want to increase traffic and improve SEO of your website, Yahoo just launched a service called Shine which allows you to post in their blog visible to their visitors. And the best posts will be featured on the homepage. Defiantly something all SEO should look into.  I am sure Yahoo is ...
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SEO is sometimes better than PPC.
2008-04-10 00:38:00
SEO - If you are a small business owner with very limited funds on advertisting, my suggestion is to hire an SEO specialist to optimize your website rather than paying into PPC and other online marketing services. PPC services such as Google Adwords, Yahoo and Microsoft PPC, and other online search marketing solutions are only effective ...

Radio to Listen While at Work
2008-04-08 21:53:00
Life - I am a registered as an independent when it comes to US politics. However I don’t know of any middle minded talk radio so I discovered Air America a while back and I have been listening to them since then. You can listen to them online. Good stuff!
More About: Radio , Life , Work , Listen

Google Getting Out of Search Marketing Business
2008-04-05 23:08:00
Science and Technology - A while back Google bought double click, which was a typical SEO and SEM company. Many in the search engine optimization and search engine marketing industry thought that was confilict of interest and Google not practicing words they preach.So it appears that Google is finally dropping the SEO and search ...
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Aztecs Arithmetic Far More Complex Than Thought
2008-04-04 02:35:00
Science and Technology - It appears that scientists had underestimated Aztecs mathematical abilities. Many had suggested a simple culture such as theirs could not have produced such complex and sophisticated architecture. Some even believed that Aliens at some point came down to earth and did this for the Aztecs. Well, now it has been ...
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Gangster Rap Made me Do it
2008-04-03 02:11:00
Life - ICE Cube is back with another hit. If you like old school gangster rap songs or political rap songs, then you gotta love this one:
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Iran vs. Kuwait - Niko?s Bicycle kick
2008-04-01 19:37:00
Sports - Soccer World cup qualification is continuing and countries in the Asian continent are in fierce competition to qualify for the next football worldcup that is going to be in South Africa. Last Week Iran and Kuwait played in Kuwait and tied 2-2. Iran was able to score the first two goals but again as ...
More About: Sports , Kick , Niko

First Web 2.0 Now JavaScript 2.0
2008-03-25 22:20:00
Technology - It seems that TC39 is in the process of designing new specification for JavaScript that are big enough to call this JavaScript 2.0. Some of these changes are major improvement in OOP design, Compile Time Type Checking, Operator Overloading, Constants, Not Null (”!”) Operator, Real Namespaces, and Program Units have be among changes ...
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Microsoft, Live, Google, and Yahoo.
2008-03-25 02:50:00
Technology - Everyone knows that Microsoft has tried to beat Google in the Search Engine Market for sometime now. After Microsoft offer to buy Google back in late 90s was ridiculed by Google, Microsoft has realized how far it is behind in the search engine market. That is why they introduced Live search, which in my ...
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Traditional Persian Haftsin at White House
2008-03-23 23:49:00
Life -Traditional Persian Haftsin is set at the White House .   A traditional Haft Sin table celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is seen set Wednesday, March 19, 2008, in the State Dining Room of the White House . Nowruz is, in Persian and some other cultures, including Kurdish culture, a family-oriented holiday celebrating the New Year and ...

Microsoft Should Force Upgrade to IE 7
2008-03-21 00:13:00
Technology - I am really tired of testing my code in multiple IE versions simply because there are still some people out there who use IE 6 or even earlier IE versions to surf the web. IE 7 has been around long enough for people to upgrade but ofcourse there are those who don’t pay ...
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