I had some free time, so I decided to click the “Next Blog” link at the top of my blog. After three or four blogs, I stumbled onto this blog, which has a design that looks familiar to me. Yes, it looks like Hisham Sabbah‘s blog. I was surprised because I thought Hisham made the new design himself, but I found that both are using this design from Blogger Templates. They offer many good templates, by the way. I wish I knew about it before doing my new design from scratch!

My Flickr Pro Account expired few days ago. Flickr are using PayPal to receive the subscription fees, and since PayPal cannot be used from Saudi Arabia, I sent an email asking them how can I pay online. Guess what? They set me up with a free month of Pro Account until they manage to accept direct credit card payments.

Is Google News the longest beta ever?

Google released the second version of Picasa, the good free photo management software. I have been using the first version and it was quite good. Now, with more exciting features, Picasa is ready to become something big.

I would really like to know would do you think of the new design. Leave your comment here or send me an email (at bottom of this page). Thanks.

Thursday is “Not One Damn Dime Day” in America. I remember when some people here tried to boycott STC for one day. It was a major failure.

Ten reasons to go to McDonald’s. (via Kottke.org)