There were always rumors about a Google browser, but Google have always denied that. However, David Galbraith thinks it is now “Google’s Netscape moment,” because “If web search boxes go from being embedded in a web page to being embedded in a browser, owned by a rival, that ships by default to the majority of computer users, then Google will have to build a browser.”

Love vs Blogs. funny. (Arabic)

Saudi Arabia’s newly installed King Abdullah pardoned five activists on Monday, including three sentenced to up to nine years in jail for calling for political reforms in the absolute monarchy, state television said. More…

The ministry of foreign affairs has announced that Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf will be the new ambassador to Britain. Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf is the son of Prince Nawaf bin Abdul Aziz, former intelligence chief, and is a is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Studies and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In one of her latest posts, the Saudi blogger Farah said she imagines herself living in a home where there is no maid around. But this is not the case for most Saudi families, because, according to Arab News, the “average Saudi family has at least one servant helping in the daily chores of the house.”

The paper says that maids, or servants, provide a service to their sponsors — a service that the sponsors are perfectly capable of doing themselves. However, it does not seem it is a matter of capability. “Yet society dictates that all “prestigious” families have a servant to keep the house in order. Having a servant is expected in this society; not having a servant is seen as “shocking and out of the ordinary,'” the newspaper added.

Here is a few questions for the members of our little Saudi bloggers community. Do you have a maid? Or should I ask how many maids do you have? Can you imagine living without the help of a maid in the house?

I know that some of you may say: why are you making a problem out of this? Actually, I don’t have a problem with that at all. It’s a personal choice, after all. I only want to see how the society looks at this issue of maids in general.

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

A+Freeware: “In other words, all you need is the operating system and you won’t have to spend one cent on software.”