The past three days of my vacation in Jordan have been hot and tiring, but very satisfying. I’m throwing myself back into my “old ways” of being in the country with great gusto, but perhaps with slightly detrimental results. I should have remembered that it took time for my body to adapt to Jordan’s food, […]

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At first it seemed like Jordan had become a quieter city in my absence. Less traffic, fewer weather-beaten looking pedestrians. However, that may have been because my arrival in the country was at 2:30 in the morning. I had been afraid that the visa price at the airport would have tripled (some of my friends […]

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I’ve begun a return trip to Jordan. It was rather spur of the moment, as ticket prices suddenly dropped $300 for the first week in April, and I bought them on a whim last month, a craving for schwarma and wadis re-awakening deep within me. I’ve just finished off the first part of trip, a […]

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The new Windows 8 “customer preview” or “consumer preview” or whatever they’re calling it was released yesterday and I had the chance to play around with a fresh ISO copy (use the key NF32V-Q9P3W-7DR7Y-JGWRW-JFCK8 to install, something that Microsoft sticks in their FAQ page for the .ISO but not on the actual download page itself […]

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Greetings, visitors to this infrequently-updated blog. As I don’t spend much time doing exciting things anymore, I’ve decided I either need to write vicariously through my father (more on that in a second) or end up having more diseases and maladies. So just like last July, I decided to have my left lung collapse for […]

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This post contains some majorly-widescreen videos, so if you’re viewing this post on the homepage, I suggest clicking the article title to view things properly. Not mandatory, but better-looking for you! I’ve been letting the blog languish quite a bit, unfortunately. Without something new and exciting like a trip across a major ocean, I just […]

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