Category: misc

  • Wishlist for 2009

    Dear all, Happy new year to all, I wish 2009 will bring you good health, prosperity and success. In these times, many would hope for economical stability, so we should add that to this also. 2008 was a good year, we launched places.ae, and were approached by some very interesting companies for partnerships, and have…

  • Dubai 2.0, more transparency please

    This post is not necessarily about the current credit crunch, and how Dubai is affected. Although it leans onto it. I just had a coffee with a good friend of mine, and we were speaking about the status of Dubai, and the entire region actually and it’s corporate profiles. And what is lacking is transparency.…

  • S60 widgets

    This is just a quick post on Nokia widgets.  I haven’t owned (lol, 0wned) a Nokia phone for ages (5 years to be specific), but I created a widget for places.ae last week. S60 (Series 60) widgets are a combination of HTML, Javascript and CSS, in a zip file, with a renamed extension. I believe…

  • Holiday in Indonesia

    Dear all, This blog is a bit quiet, since I am on a short trip in Jakarta, Indonesia. I’m visiting a friend of mine and it is a nice break from the busy Dubai life. Plus, I met some cool people at the Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2008 conference. Thanks, Michael