Watch The Premier League On Your Phone

I’ve previously posted about Abu Dhabi’s online Premier League subscription and how awesome it is. I just wanted to add that you can also watch any match on the go on your phone too, If you have an Android phone that is.

The pic above is of my Nexus One while I was watching last night’s Arsenal game. The video quality is excellent by the way the pic is just blurry.

Hey Dad, Catch!

This guy pranks his dad by throwing his dads macbook out of his reach. His dad’s reactions is brilliant.

Now Thats An Alarm Clock

I have a problem were I dismiss an alarm prematurely and go back to sleep, casing me to be late for work and appointments.

This is a great idea, would have to do some calculations before I can dismiss the alarm.

8TB of Data Gone?! And A BSOD Just For Kicks

Ever since I got back from the US about a month ago and I’ve been having problems with my gadgets.
When I first arrived I noticed that my SATA tower that is connected to my WHS is not reading any of the 3 HDD that are installed in it. I switched it off and didn’t switch it back on ever since.
This really pissed me off because it has 8TB of data, some of it is irreplaceable like family videos and pictures.

Then a few days later, my PC started to act strangely. I would get BSOD from time to time.I thought it was due to overheating so I opened up the case and did my annual PC cleaning (without the usual formatting) and it worked fine for a while. Then it happened again and couldn’t get it to work after that. This time I suspect that my GPU is fried. I will be going to Hawally tomorrow to check if its really the video card and look for a replacement if needed.

After getting the PC fixed I will look into the server issue, and hope my data is still salvageable.

12 Monkeys – Movie Review

This is a classic, back when Bruce Willis was cool. 12 Monkeys is a story about the annihilation of mankind after a virus was released in 1996 killing 5 billion people and the rest who survived moved underground to escape the virus. A few years later they develop the a gizmo that can make human travel through time and they send poor old Bruce back to 1996 to “gather information and a sample of virus in its pure form”.
As I said, this is a classic and a must see by any sci-fi fan

VIVA Annonces 4G Network in Kuwait

We were invited to attend the VIVA’s “VIVA Speed transition Experience” press conference that was held yesterday in their Marina Mall branch at 9-ish PM yesterday.

The beginning of the press conference, they said “we told you in our last press conference that we are going to release something big in the coming weeks” I had no idea about the last press conference but got excited just because they were hyping it up for a few weeks now so it got to be something big. “We are proud to announce the first 4G network in Kuwait” and held up one of 2 4G modems they had at the conference.

Also there are plans to upgrade the current generation of LTE networks to what is called LTE Advanced which has theoretical downlink speeds of 1 Gbits/s.

The expected release of the Kuwait’s first 4G network is Q4 2010. Mr. Al-Awadi said we are almost ready to release it just waiting for some paperwork to clear from the ministry.

Abu Dhabi Premier League Online

I subscribed to Abu Dhabi’s online subscription since I didn’t want to put another receiver under my TV and it not as convenient as having a card that you can take with you anywhere. And because I spend most of my tie on my laptop or PC it was a no brainer.

I used the website on many occasions. I subscribed saturday before the games but the account activated the next day (or late in the evening the same day not sure) and managed to watch the extra-long highlights of the yesterdays matches which were 45 mins long so you don’t miss a thing.

As for live viewing I watched Chelsea vs West Brom, Liverpool vs Arsenal and Man U vs New Castle all were great. And if you have a the bandwidth for it the quality automatically adjust (ala Netflix) to some very nice looking video.

Whats missing though is the short highlights that has just the goals, they might be there but I haven’t looked thoroughly enough and the ability to change the commentator language, from what I can see at the moment there is no why to do that at the moment.

Abu Dhabi online subscription is highly recommended even if you already have bought the receiver due to its shear and utter awesomeness

Bob Hoover: The Pilots’ Pilot

What Bob does with an aircraft is simply amazing. And he makes it look so easy that anyone can do it. Like pouring a drink with one hand and doing a barrel roll with the other without spilling the drink all over the cockpit.

How Did George Lucas COme Up With This?

I just realized how stupid the plot outline of Star Wars sounds. I never thought about it until I saw the image above.

She’s Out of My League – Movie Review

I heard much about the movie being great and all so I was pretty confidant the it would be a very good movie. I didn’t recognize any of the actors but the plot was good a had decent jokes. Much better than other things I’ve seen recently.

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