Overheard: I’ve read somewhere that the Robot Co-op have already registered the domain name 43People.com. Are they thinking of launching a website for social networking?

Writeboard is the next little thing from 37signals. The concept is interesting. I can’t wait!

Turky Al-Thenaian thinks the part-time working schemes could be used to solve some problems regarding employement in the country. These solutions have been around and tested for a long time, and many countries around the world are using them, and they proved to be effective and sufficient. However, the government has always chosen to ignore them.

Mohammed al-Harfi: “Talking about what’s happening in Hassa is more desturbing and more painful. (…) Talking about its streets and public services is painful by all standards, despite all the efforts made recently. (…) [Hassa] needs a “Marshalian” project to save it.”

A sad story of a young devastated wife by Sahar al-Ramlawi. Even though I always thought love plays a major role in our lives, but I think she is right when she says that life goes on, “with it or without it.”

In this column, Sa’ad al-Sowaiian is being nostalgic about the good ol’ days of innocence. Even sexual innocence. Well, “sexual innocence, and not sexual freedom,” he says. I think our society was more simple and more innocent in the past, but with all this overwhelming amount of media and propaganda of all kinds (religious, ideological, etc.), it’s hard to maintain this innocence anymore. The age of innocence is over. (I know someone who has been calling me “innocent” in the past few days won’t agree on this, but it’s ok because I love it when I can disagree with the people I love.)

“The Saudi music concerts business is located in Cairo,” Mohammed Abdu, the most famous Saudi singer, told Asharq al-Awsat. Huh? Weird? Well, not here in Saudi Arabia, where the number of music concerts is very limited and concerts are restricted to men. So, if the rest of family members wanted to attend a concert of their own traditional music, they should leave the country to Egypt, Beirut or Europe. The Supreme Commission for Tourism always talk about their attempts to support domestic tourism, but obviously, they are willing to ignore such issue because they don’t dare to enrage the religious establishment.