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This is pretty funny

Seems like Souq.com has redesigned their site and gone are tables and it’s all CSS, it seems. I like the new look. Much smoother and nice to look at.

Some scary things are going on in Kuwait.. two bloggers were arrested.

There’s a new Mail for Exchange (version 2.0) for Nokia phones. I downloaded it and will try it when I go back to work.

President Bush and the current administration have borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks than the previous 42 presidents combined, a group of conservative to moderate Democrats said Friday.

Blue Dog Coalition, which describes itself as a group “focused on fiscal responsibility,” called the administration’s borrowing practices “astounding.”

According to the Treasury Department, from 1776-2000, the first 224 years of U.S. history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions, but in the past four years alone, the Bush administration borrowed $1.05 trillion. [source]

Truly amazing!

A new business networking site has launched - www.globalbusinessnetworking.com.

For a site that uses “web 2.0″ in a press release, they’re strangely uninterested in getting people to be impressed with their site, especially their blog. It uses the standard Wordpress theme, and they’ve not even bothered to edit the blogroll links it seems. It’s the ones that come with a standard Wordpress installation, isn’t it? And it’s not like they’ve not had time, first post was made in May 2007.

And read the fine print: “Yes, it’s free until Oct 1st, 2007″.

Anyone, please tell me, what’s different or better with GBN compared to something like Xing?

If this doesn’t make you think twice about towers like the Burj Dubai, I don’t know what will. Fire broke out in the Shanghai Financial Center Tower. After about an hour it was under control. That tower is now 445m or 97 stories high. Burj Dubai is currently on floor 143 and at 521.7m.

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Taken with my Nokia E61i.

It seems that Abu Dhabi is getting the world’s largest handmade carpet, soon. This carpet is measuring 5,625 sq m (60,546 sq ft), and is made in nine separate pieces. The pieces will be put together once in Abu Dhabi, after coming here on two planes. The carpet took 1,200 weavers about 18 months to make. The carpet will go into the large Sheikh Zayed Mosque.

BBC News:

Iran has unveiled what it says is the world’s largest handmade carpet, a vast green and red floor covering that is larger than a football pitch.
The carpet, which took 1,200 weavers some 18 months to make, is destined for a mosque in the United Arab Emirates.

Measuring 5,625 sq m (60,546 sq ft), the carpet was made in nine separate segments with 2.2 billion knots.

It was woven in Iran’s north-eastern province of Khorasan and is worth an estimated $5.8m (£2.8m).

Half of that sum is destined for the local area in Khorasan, where it was produced using about 38 tons of wool and cotton.

Multi-coloured

The nine sections of the carpet will be stitched together after being flown to Abu Dhabi in two aeroplanes.

Four groups of people would be sent to UAE for the fitting and cleaning of the carpet, said Jalaleddin Bassam, the head of Iran’s state carpet company.

He said the carpet was an important commission for Iran’s carpet-making industry, and said it could lead to further orders.

“Iran is in talks to make similar carpets for Oman and other Gulf countries,” he told Agence France-Presse.

The carpet - mainly green, red and cream - was made using 25 different colours of wool sourced from the town of Sirjan, in southern Iran, as well as New Zealand.