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Who you gonna call? Municipality Building Inspections section.
Using the magic of satellite imagery and google earth and wikimapia truth about enzyte I have determined that the area of Dubai he is pointing is Nad Shamma (wikimapia: Nad Shamma) So watch out if you live there. ...Ok, in all seriousness take a read of the article here 1 comments Tidbit: ADSL and Cable are two different internet services; in the US cable is the most popular service, although in the UAE it is unclear what is the most popular. My cable modem is 4 years old, it's dying. So when your cable modem is dying, the first place you check is Etisalat, who offer to replace it with a Thomson modem. The preferred brands of cable modem are usually Motorola or perhaps Linksys, and up until talking to Etisalat I had no idea Thomson even made cable modems. My conversation with Etisalat goes like this: I really don’t want a modem with wireless crap/routing included as it is going to cause more problems than it solves. (read: I hate routers) Etisalat doesn’t offer a modem without the extra crap, I might be tempted by a Thomson modem (i.e. modem with no router), but this isn’t on the table. No shop in the UAE seems to stock cable modems; the linksys salesman in compume told me that cable was ‘old’—funny that the slowest/oldest standard of cable internet exceeds speeds of the fastest ADSL standard. I fire up the internet (at quarter speed) and find a new modem on newegg and find a few more items—only that there’s a slight problem, they don’t do international deliveries. That bugs the crap out of me, how a company can manage to be so great and everyone says how great they are, yet they don’t deliver anything to 90% of the world. Amazon is usually the same too; they will not ship electronic items to Dubai, no explanation, no additional credit card security check so that you might have the slight possibility of ordering something worthwhile, just a big screw you. If you want something cool – too bad for you. So I go to bhphoto.com and place an order for a cable modem… and a few other things (mostly film etc), but they’re not going to ship anything till the 22nd, which is when Sukkot (a Jewish holiday) finishes (read: New York camera shop combines 18th-century Jewish traditions and the hottest digital technology) So yeah, I just felt like saying this: I’m in Dubai, in the UAE (a country that bans pretty much anything Israeli and bans the whole of Israel on the internet) waiting on a Jewish holiday for my new cable modem. (note: BHphoto.com is the best photography shop on the internet, I highly, highly recommend them) 7 comments Want to hear something really interesting? Some guy who used to chat on some chat room googled and came to this blog and insists that he knows me. insists is a pretty vague term so I'll expand on that, in this case 'insists' means all of the following; asking me to meet up with him and 'sort things out' providing me with his full name/phone number being annoying
I don't know what drugs are seeping through customs here, but read this crap and try and make some sense of it (keep in mind that I do not know this person, nor have I ever talked to them online or wherever prior to these emails. "Ahhh... Now what is this? You hate me now? After all you've done to me, you of all people hate me? "Listen pal, I've typed this countless times, I want to get this over with, where?, when?, I didn't do anything wrong, meet me, call me (you have two numbers), I can't do anything more. Spam here and there trying to make me paranoid I still don't know why. I've asked her too, she's willing to get in bed with me but not call and talk to me, I don't know why." "You're making too much out of this especially when you can just talk to me, watch a movie with or play a game with and get it over with. Think about it. I don't want to sound pathetic but we are all just people after all." "SUBJECT: Dentures Earn trust and let go. Send someone here, pick me up, do as you please." "Tell me you Jew, you (removed) with me, huh? Are you really having fun, is that it? Lets just make it more intresting, come to my house, Al-Ghubaibah, Sharjah, Villa no. (removed) and just knock on the A/C outside. Lets have some (removed) fun. C'mon...... "Your "dog" in Etisalat probably told you I was at the beach, I should've known." This guy has emailed me at least 100 times from multiple email addresses. I'm really, really wondering what the hell is going on in this guys head. 10 comments "They ended up on the beach that night by mistake. These guys were part of a group in a hotel having drinks and celebrating [on July 4]. They left the hotel and were bar hopping from 2pm and finally boarded a taxi and told the driver to take them to the Oasis Beach Hotel where Acors was staying. The driver dropped them at Jumeirah beach by mistake, since he did not understand them. They ended up at the Jumeirah beach at around 1.30am where the girl [Palmer] passed out from exhaustion and intoxication. They then lay down on the beach. If the driver understood the instructions correctly, this whole incident would not have happened and Palmer would not have lost her job and Acors would have not been stuck in Dubai like a prisoner," Mattar said." Damn RTA... more here Labels: sex on the beach, taxis 3 comments
And if I understand the 'adjustment' part it means that Etisalat has completely refunded me for 38 days of internet service. I'm probably the only person to ever recieve money from Etisalat in the history of the human race. Labels: customer service, etisalat, refund 5 comments I’m talking 7days (once a day, 5 or 7 times a week), xpress (once a week) and Khaleej Times (7 days a week, they just relaunched, I have no subscription yet I get a free copy every day that I don’t want and will not read); add to that random advertisements for everything from maintenance companies to fast food chains to whatever else. The combined weight of those is 680 grams; so in any given week there’s probably 3-4 KG of wasted paper. Granted the amount of wasted paper outside my door is less when Khaleej Times isn’t delivering a giant stack of crap every day. There isn’t even a mailbox on my house, the papers are delivered by just dropping them outside my front door, a meter or so from the road or wedging them between the door handle and the door; I’m pretty sure in any other country that would be considered littering. It wouldn’t be so bad if the newspapers weren’t – quite literally – wrapped in advertisements; I’m talking full page advertisements + the front/back sheet of the paper being a full page ad + a strip of paper advertisement wrapped around the paper + small ads + classifieds ads + incognito advertisements… i.e. too many damn ads. Labels: media, paper, waste |