Sohaib Thiab – The Story of an Internet Entrepreneur

Things have been going a bit slowly around here, myspaceush coder is yet to deliver the new coded design, Imad told me that he faced some trouble with tableless coding and that he will be switching to table coding, not sure how would that effect the page’s loading speed, hopefully it won’t be effected…

Dave is a good guy, I actually didn’t know he coded gamescript.net designs, well anyways hope he finishes it soon.

On another front, I was browsing some sites yesterday and came across a link to an intresting blog written by an Iraqi 24 year old girl, Baghdad Burning! is th blog’s titles, it seems to be very popular, the article I was reading mentioned this blog and said the following:

“An unnamed young Iraqi woman has become the first blogger to be nominated for the Samuel Johnson award, the United Kingdom’s richest literary award worth £30,000 (approximately U.S. $52,300). The Times (UK) reports that Baghdad Burning is “a visceral first-hand account of how the war has destroyed the lives of Iraqi citizens.” And the author, a 26-year-old gaining international readership under the pen name Riverbend, is nominated along with 18 other authors including best selling English author and actor, Alan Bennett. The “long list” was picked from a competitive 168 entries. Publisher Marion Boyars took the memoirs of this young woman to the forefront. Riverbend began her blog nearly three years ago with the words, “I’m female, Iraqi, and 24. I survived the war. That’s all you need to know. It’s all that matters these days anyway.” Don’t miss reading award nominated Riverbend’s sobering chronicles and reflections on how Iraq has changed since the US-led invasion at http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com. ”

I read most of the main page, and her writing is impressive! I am adding a link to her blog from mine.