Paul Buchheit, the Gmail engineer, has a post on the Google Blog explaining why he created Gmail, the service that changed how we look to web-based email. I never used any regular desktop email client, because I never needed one. However, I was suffering from moving between different email services until I was invited to Gmail. And even though I’m not using the maximum functionality that it offers, I’m totally satisfied with the service, and there is no I’m going to change it.

Elaph reports (Arabic) about So’ad Hadi, a 14-year-old Saudi-American girl, who wishes to participate in the gymnastics competition at the next Olympic Games in China 2008.

Tariq al-Maeena is not the only one to have a bad experience with courts in the country. I, for one, spent about three months trying to finish some papers, and after finishing them, I have decided to avoid going to the court until the last day of my life.

Noha, a Saudi girl, wanted to give some money for charity. When she reached the booth that belongs to one of the local charities, the man at the booth screamed at her: “Get out! Get out! Go look for someone else to accept your contribution. We do not accept it. Go cover yourself appropriately, and then come. Neither me nor God accepts your contribution.”

This story was published yesterday in al-Riyadh daily newspaper. The writer Sa’ad al-Dosari, who reported the story (Arabic), thinks that there are still a lot of people in this country who believe that the main role for men is to humiliate any woman brave enough to break the social taboos.

Have you heard about the Lebanese man who named his first son Google? The baby has a website, too.

Nadine al-Bedair writes something (Arabic) that Fouad al-Farhan, even when he agrees with most of what she wrote, could not believe that the censorship system did not rip it off, and he wonders if such freedom is for liberals only. I agree with all the points she made in that column. Maybe the difference between al-Farhan’s favorite writers and those he call “liberals” is that those so-called liberals writes what they believe in without thinking of censorship. It is a real problem when the censorship comet to live in the head of the writer instead of the offices of the government.

Meg Hourihan has written a letter to application developers and designers about using email to create an account or recall a password. I completely agree with her. If you are going to send the email, send it right away.