I have finished reading Blink, the second book by Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the best-seller The Tipping Point. The book talks about the process of thinking without thinking. The idea that our first impressions can be as good and valuable as months of research and deep thinking is compelling. And even though some seminal bloggers have tried to make fun of it, the argument of this book is seriously interesting. No matter what you interests are, this book is definitely a must-read. I really enjoyed it, and I think it would be a perfect choice for you as a start for the summer reads.

Now this is a pretty blogroll.

More on podcasting in Arabic from Asharq Al-Awsat.

You know you are addicted to blogging if…

Here’s a nice hack to put any of your Flickr photos on a black or white background.

I’m not posting these days because I’m having a design crisis. I thought that I would be able to solve it myself, but I tried and failed, and now I give up. For all of you HTML/CSS experts out there: Please, help me!

I used to have the red “@” sign, which is the permalink, at the beginning of every post, but few days ago, the “@” sign started to appear on a separate line for no obvious reasons. I tried to play with the could in order to find a solution to this weird behavior but I failed. So please, if you have any idea how can solve this, leave a comment here or send me an email on the address at the bottom of this page.

Here is a little thing I experienced during my unsuccessful attempts to solve this. I used to have just a space between the “” tag and “” tag. But now, when I view the code I noticed that there is a new element between the two tags. There is this line of code: (div style="clear: both;">) (sorry, it’s not complete, Blogger won’t allow it in the Creat Post form!) and I’m not exactly sure how it appeared just like that. Is it added by the Blogger system itself? I don’t know. All I know is, I need help. Please, help me!

Husein Shubukshi writes about the hate mail he receives everyday.