Badriah al-Bisher has written a great column (Arabic) under the title “Imagine You Are a Woman.” In this column, she explains the miserable states of women in Saudi Arabia in a sarcastic style. “Imagine that you are a woman who gets harassed, hit, or killed, and then when the papers publishes your photo with criminals who attacked you, there will be some people asking if the victim was well covered or not,” she writes.

There is a huge amount of strange things for sale on eBay, but what’s even stranger is that there are people who actually buy them. You can find some of what’s on offer here.

Mohammed Jazairy, editor of the youth column in Asharq Al-Awsat, tells us the other side of the story about what happened in the meeting of Karen Hughes with the students of Dar Al-Hikma College for Girls. “Unfortunately, most of the opinions expressed by the girls were not honest. They are not happy, and they don’t deny their right to drive. The only explanation for their attitude is because Hughes is American,” Ghadeer Atallah, 21, said.

Jazairy says he was surprised that the high level of education the students receive, and the openness of their social life, did not allow them to be subjective and rational in front of the foreign visitors and the international media.

AP: Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency that he heads won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

Microsoft have finally admitted that Windows was a piece of crap that cannot be fixed, and decided to start building a brand new system from scratch. I think they made the right decision, or at least let me hope they did.

Bayareq is a nonprofit organization, composed of a group of young men and women, hopes to rally the youth of Saudi Arabia to become an energetic, innovative, and powerful base of world leadership in the future. This is an interesting approach by these guys. Let’s try to keep an eye on them.

Customer service in Saudi Arabia is, well, nothing. I cannot see it, and I am not sure if anyone else can. So this story of retailers who abuse the rights of consumers is no news to me.