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A funny video on Google Buzz.

An amazing video about the iPad Keynote

Thogh I was not a great fan of Mac, it looks like I am going to get this one.

Today morning I visited the Apollo Clinic in Salmiya for visiting the pediatrition as my son was not well. The nurse in the reception greeted me and asked if I have an appointment. As I did not have an appointment, I had to wait for sometime to get my child's health file from the filing room.

Meanwhile, I have been asked to pay 8 KD as the consulting fee. As I did not have the currency, I have used the debit card over the KNET. Immediately after the request was approved, the recepionist has entered my card number to their computer including the expiry dates. Opps.

Are they allowed to store my credit / debit card data? Being someone in Information Security and specially in the credit card security, I am bit worried that these people may get into trouble.

Many times, the card data being captured are not securly stored by these companies as it requires more investment.

 I was at Ruby Tuesday (near aqua park) with my wife and our lil' kids sometime back. The restaurant had amazing decor and is fabulously lit. You get the nice sea view if you are rightly seated. 

Today I got the Google Wave invitation. It was pretty amazing the way the wave is designed. I am sure that this is going to be the next big thing for the email and collaboration.

I have some (10 of them) invitations left, if anyone is interested please drop in a line here and I will post the links as a private message. Yeah, that means only KuwaitStay.com members will get the benefit for the time-being. I will be sending you the invitations on Sunday (08-11-09).

As the number of invitations are limited, priorities will be given for members with highest points. You still have to request for getting the invite.

 http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video

Sara Watson, an English art student, turned a car "invisible" with a lovely trompe l'oeil paintjob:

Present Death Toll : 103
Infection :1600

Yesterday I started watching the Swine Flu emergency and saw the news channels reporting the death toll as 16 people and 800 infected in Mexico. Public places were closed it operation for a number of days.

Later in the evening, it has increased to 60 and 1000+ cases reported alone in Mexico. All the public events are canceled. That is more than 500 events, including concerts and sports games, were canceled in the metropolis of 20 million.

Current WHO phase of pandemic alert

Today(26-April-09) morning, what I am seeing is an increase in the death toll, rose up to 81 from yesterdays 16 and increase of 60+ people in 24 hours. The number of infected are now 1400. Now events like Sunday mass and small gathering are either canceled or asked by the government to cancel them.