San Mateo Kite Surfing
A Video taken from my iPhone of Kite Surfers in San Mateo, off of 3rd Av.
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Burney falls
This is a picture taken at burney falls. It was gorgeous and a great stop.
San Jose – Seattle road trip 2008
6 friends, a minivan and the road for a week, my vacation is fast approaching. After 3 weeks of grueling work, I am taking time off to discover the north-western coast and its national parks and sights. We’ll also be spending a day in Portland, and 2 in Seattle. I hope to have a ton of pictures of the entire road trip when I get back on July 19th. Checkout the photo-albums section in a couple of weeks for a photo-log of the trip. I’ll be leaving San Jose on the 12th, right after I finally get an iPhone.
Deer on the archery range
Bamby’s got a death wish. I was at the range about to pick up my arrows when I saw a beautiful young doe grazing around the targets. Lucky for her, I am not a hunter.
Trip to the archery range
Trip to the archery range.
Hommage to an exeptional grand father
The following is the news coverage of a concert held in honor or Mohammed Filali-Meknassi, my grand father. He was a virtuoso of an instrument called the rabab. Andaloussi music originated in Andalousia and came back to morocco when the spanyards kicked us out. My uncle is playing with the band, and my dad is the guy in the black suit singing at the end 
I am so proud!
Science on Track to Make us Gods
I have been seeing a trend for sometime now of humans applying their intelligence for the improvement of other species. You’re probably more than familiar with genetically tweaked fruits, insects, etc. Recently though, it seems to be more and more about us. That’s right! we are trying to improve the human condition by…(drum roll)…improving humans!
Here is my evidence that we are increasingly on the path to change our species: Read the full article »
Apple lowers iPhone shipment projection for fiscal 2Q08, says paper
Apple has lowered its projected shipments of iPhones from two million units to around 1-1.2 million units for the second fiscal quarter, which will end March 2008, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) quoted sources at Apple’s handset component suppliers in Taiwan as indicating.
It begins!! My predictions…I mean prophecies are coming true! Hallelujah!
Fluendo Eliza Media Center app
The Linux operating system is gradually catching on to the usability and design trend we see everywhere else these days. Today it comes in the form of a rehaul of Elisa’s user interface. Elisa is a media center type application for Linux that lets people use a Linux box as a media center appliance. Here is a quick YouTube video showing the new interface:
Casablanca lost a record
The largest pool on earth used to be the Orthlieb pool, right by the beach at what I think is either “Miami plage” or Tropicana beach resorts (I don’t remember, feel free to correct me if I am wrong). Unfortunately, times change and a giant $1 billion pool was just completed elsewhere. The Guinness Book of World Records says it is the world’s largest swimming pool, it measures 1,013 metres in length and covers an area of eight hectares.
From The Daily Mail : Read the full article »
$72 off on a Nokia 810
Watching geek brief tv, Cali metioned using her promo code on nokiausa.com to get a discount on a N810 tablet. It amounts to $72 off the N810 which totals out to about $410!!! Quick, don’t miss it, use coupon code geekbrieftv at nokiausa.com!
If you don’t know Cali, shame on you!! http://www.geekbrief.tv/
Making my first longbow
Around May 2007, I walked into Archery Only, an archery shop in Newark, CA. I rented some equipment and spent a couple of hours on their shooting range. I was hooked! A couple weeks later, I was the proud owner of a brand new compound bow. Months have passed and I have gradually increased the draw weight on my bow until I reached my target 70 pounds (for those of you not into archery, that means it take 70 pounds of force to pull the string back). My girlfriend has been to the range with me a couple of times and is marginally interested in the sport. She has carpal tunnel problems and needs a light bow (unlike my 4 pound monster compound bow).
This long prelude was simply meant to justify my recent endeavor, I have built her a longbow out of home depot redwood! It works so well, I was almost tempted to keep it as my own and buy her something else…almost…
Must have apps for Nokia 810
Ok, so you’ve just followed my advice and spent 500 bucks on a brand new Nokia 810. Here is a list of apps to get you off the desktop and out into the world.
- Transmission bittorrent client. I don’t think this needs explaining, think Animes (or adult multimedia, whatever floats your boat) on the go!
- FBReader book reader. Hey man! The internet is cool and all, and yes, you can watch movies to pass the time, but even I need to read a nice book once a year or so…
- Pidgin universal IM client. All the Nokia tablets support Google chat by default. This gives you everything else.
- UKMP media player. Be like your annoying iPhone toting, screen poking friends! This will add finger driven multimedia playback to your N810.
- Games. Play time begins now!
Nokia 810 – Ultimate tablet?
So you’ve heard me talk of the Nokia 770 (which I own) and the Nokia 800. Nokia just started selling the Nokia 810, a sleeker more feature packed version of the 800. For starters, it sports a slide out keyboard, GPS, and is smaller than its predecessors. Wifi and bluetooth as usual and a camera. The new model sports a built-in stand. Software wise, the browser is webkit based and some improvements were made to flash performance. I hear it plays youtube and flash video just fine but I have not tried it myself. For most people interested in either an iPhone or a UMPC, I strongly recommend the N810 as a more capable alternative.
