I love my Moleskine, and here is other things you can do with it:

The Furrygoat Experience: 21st Century PDA: Moleskine

Just got word there was a shoot out in Salmiya Share3 al Mada3em (restaurant road) at 8:45 this morning. The Kuwait Forces closed the street, and were going after a terrorist ammo bunker that was there. It is over now, they caught 2 people.

I created a wiki page
Shoot Out

This way we have one place to keep track of everything

I am sick of social networks like Orkut Friendster, and Tribe. They have a great idea, of just connecting people and showing who is connected to who, and a place for people to get together. But they have one crutch, its centralized so you have to log in to actually check on messages and people, and no one has time for that.

I think the future of networking is blogs and syndication.

With blogs you have a quick glance of the persons life, you can see who they know by their links. Their links can have tons of meta data using XFN. Which allows you to saw who you are close to, neighbors, friend, business associate etc. I think it needs more work in the linking options but its simple and basic so thats a plus for it.

Also in a blog you can have other information with syndication system. With people using Amazon and Netflix they can get a feed showing what they just rented, read, got etc. Like how I have my listening and reading on the right. Thats just an rss feed from del.icio.us. Also my Flickr pics are there on what I am seeing.

But we can take it on step further with a complete syndication. My friends can just subscribe to my feed, and without visiting my blog. Friends can get my zeitgeist of what I am doing, reading, watch, listening, and taking picture of. Also I can attach some sort of “where am I” so it updates it on my location when I am traveling or just in town.

They are lots of options and ideas, but the main focus is sharing your life with your friends easily. I think slowly we are going to be reaching there.

As you know I love collaborative stuff, and just when people get together to create stuff. So seeing this iWikipes. A wiki based recipe book.

So you can share and read other peoples recipes openly and freely.

This gave me an idea, I created Recipes page for KuWiki so we can perserve our on Kuwaiti dishes.

I been having strange sleeping patterns lately. I been coming home this past week and in bed before 1am most of those nights instead of my standard 3am-4am. Though with this sleep early I still have trouble waking up getting out of bed.

Like today for example. I was awake by like 6:05 but just pushed myself back to sleep, well not before turning on my clock radio. I think thats to blame I had it on Voice of America and they were doing the Jazz America. Great show just great song after song with a little bit of history behind it, and interviews with the performers. You cant get a better jazz show than this.

So after about 2 hours of this I finally got out of bed, and out to work. Something about Saturdays in Kuawit lately. I just notice it just so empty and quiet. It very strange feeling this lullness when I drive. Its not just the driving, today I went to the city and even found empty parking spots. This doesn’t happen on regular days. I guess its due to that banks are closed and also the schools are on vacation.

I am a big fan of soundtracks of movies. I love music that just has a set theme and purpose, and nothing is better to associate music with but with a story.

So here is a list of some great soundtracks. MOJO’s Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time List (”You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet!”)

We are doomed, there is going be no more questions in the future. I thought Kuwait GIS with the option to see pictures of certain buildings was cool. Now Amazon.com does this. You can put an address and it will show you the picture of it, and the neighbor buildings and shops around it. And you can also upload your own.

I thought Flickr with their tags was amazing, and how Technorati tagswas cool with it getting pics from Flickr and del.icio.us links.

I tell you once cameras start having full implementation of the standards so it can remeber GPS coords, its just going to go crazy. So when I upload my pics from Sharm El Shiek, it will remeber every point I took that picture. So if someone were to search for an address. It will show pics located near it. Youll be able to have a real view of locations by looking at other peoples pictures when you are thinking of travel destinations, or lost and trying to find where this place is you can access pictures around that area so you can use as landmarks.

I am scared and amazed at the same time with what the future holds.

What a quiet day, I can’t pin point it just has this strange feeling to it. The roads were empty on the way to work this morning, even some shops didn’t even bother opening up. It really gets annoying when government and commerical sectors conflict on vacations. It just not good for business. Only benifit it gives companies that are open time to clean their desks and arrange stuff in peace.

I had a good weekend. A weekend of sex, sleep and html. Which is what I planned, there were other plans that didn’t come out that well, but it was enjoyable.

I checked out the Life Mall in Shuwaik next to Ikea. Nice place its has Eureka and Midas there, so if you looking for stuff for the home thats where to one stop shop. One plus it has nice underground parking, which was great on Saturday with that rain.

Eid was quiet and festive in its own way. It is not the same as Eid Al-Fitr with the people and the just this confused look on people’s faces when someone offers them something to drink forgeting that ramadan is over.

I just got me a nice stack of some Playboys from 1974-1982. These things are great I love old magazines I see them as a zeitgesit of our life and times. But Playboys is what I love to collect in terms of magazines, they had the best articles, interviews and commentary. The pictures they showed then are so tame compared to what is available in new stands now and this is just comparing them to Maxim and FHM. But Bo Derek is still a 10 in my book.

All of them have the centerfold still in them, which makes them extra valuable. One or two I already have, some I’ve seen in the stores before but just browsed through them. Some really good stuff in these things. I dont think I will find a better one than the interview with Stanley Kubrick I got, thats my pride and joy.

These are the albums I got while I was at Austria. I picked them out based on cover art. They have all been on heavy rotation in my car for the past month.

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  • Kasabian - Kasabian:
    I picked up this album cause of the red face in the cover. It just look so rebelish and terroristical that I was like yeah. I can feel what this band is about. And I wasn’t wrong this is music to start a revolution with. Beats and bass is the real kicker on this album and the melodic guitar riffs. The lead singers voice can get annoying at times with his “aha ah ah” but you it passes quickly. This is the indie band of 2005.
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  • Ben Kweller - On My Way
    The cover just seemed funny some guy on a mountain with wolves around him. It made me thing of an Alternative John Denver. Which is what he sounded like if John Denver lived in New York instead of Colorado. This is your folk album for the city. At first I was scared it was emo when I started listening to it, but lukcily he doesn’t whine and moan. Good listen to for when moopy and just cruising.
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  • Cafe Dreshsler - Radio Snacks
    They had a piece of meat on a clock radio, so I had to get it. This album could be a great sound track for a movie, with the starting song containing 33 seconds of digital silence, then 2. Wake Up, 3. Train Track. You can just imagine someone waking up and going to do something. Its has a jazzy rock feel with just the right amount of digital effects to still have a old roots soul.
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  • Aymuth - Brazilian Soul
    It was bright and shiny and has Brazil in the title. Bossanova owns your ass, what a great album, and this is the bands like 30th year together. This album also has a jazz feel, real calming and you just hit play and forget about it, and then notice your humming to the song and tapping your feet to the beat. I plan to get more of their music. This album won me over, but when this girl was in my car and noticed it was Brazillian she was impressed so that gives it extra points.
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  • Hope of the States - The Lost Riots
    The cover was cool the name even cool, and the first song owned your ass so bad you were like DAMN this insturmental epic of it, and you just have these high hope for whats next. Sadly next was hearing the lead singers vocal. Ugh annoying, the music on this album is amazing, but the singer just butchers the song. Supposedly he sounds much much better live, but how couldnt they get that in the studio beats me. There are couple good songs on here, but it just falls short due the singer.
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  • OMFO - Trans Balkan Express
    The name of the band reminded me of Kraftwerk and their Trans European Express, and with the cover art of some sewing it just got me interested in what this was. I imagined electro beats to old classical Balkan music, and that what it was. Good album quiet impressed with songs and beats. It is a very simple album but has lots of history in it especially with his choice of insturments like violins and I think I heard some bag pipes.
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  • Alice Russel - Under the Munka Moon
    I couldn’t keep my eyes from this cover, it was psychadelic and silver and was pretty. Basicly Joss Stone=Old and Busted, Alice Russel=New Hotness. This girl got some lungs and a soul. You can’t miss this album if you a fan of 70s soul divas.
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  • Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People
    I just remeber the name and said wtf. I was lucky I had a good memmory its Prince Paul and Dan the Automator back again with their large number of guests giving vocals to their amazing beats. Its a hip hop album for the people who dont like hip hop or rap but enjoy good music and well produced stuff. One of my favorite songs on there is If there wasn’t for you about a guy talking about the important people in his life, like his best friend, his child etc and the song Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)