A few weeks ago I was contacted by a Nokia representative by email, someone who had come across my (this) website. They wanted to see if I would be interested in trying out for a period of 2 weeks a new Nokia N9 phone. I replied to the email that …

If you’re looking for a local contact for the subdomains .jo or .com.jo – domain extensions for the country of Jordan, send me an email: khaled[at]kman.me

You are in the driver seat of your own life. You control the way you behave, the way you perceive things, the way you react to the environment, and ultimately the way you lead your life based on the summation of all these things. The now world-popular book and movie, …

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This year we will experience 4 unusual dates, 1.1.11 / 11.1.11 / 1.11.11 / 11.11.11. Another nice number-trick that works for this years is as follows: Take the last two digits of the year you were born and add them to the age you will be this year. The answer …

You can only pick two… and it makes perfect… perfect sense…

I believe this is the first time I share a series of pictures as a blog post. But I found the pictures, which I received as a Forward by email, very interesting and quite honestly very creative. So… the question: Have you ever sharpened your pencils this way? //

In honor of a great man whose eloquence should be a a course in colleges and in  honor of Martin Luther King day, I share the “We Shall Over Come” speech text and audio in this post. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made use of “we shall overcome” in the …

I haven’t been updating my blog very frequently and I am beginning to feel that I am having less and less to say these days. There used to be a time when, as I recall, I would be able to write hours on end about a wide range of things …

Yes…Over twitter and during Ramadan, it is what everyone is complaining about… The terribly hot weather. Hot weather is not new to our region. But this kind of hot weather… is something that is new. Add to it the fact that there is a piece of the burning sun that …

Forget biology, I’m talking about something else here. I believe that one of the main features of being a human is regret. Now don’t rush on ahead and think that this is a somber article weighing down at the “negative” side of the scale. By regret I am referring to …

Does having a job make you a phony? Well, it most always does, in various degrees, so let’s take these three rules for now. Primo: never trust a man who earns a salary (or, more specifically, has a dependent source of income) – unless he is on minimum wage. People …

Ever since WordPress 3.0 came out, I could not wait to make the switch. I’ve been using WordPress as the open source platform for customization and development for web design / development work I do for clients. I get paid to customize WordPress. Since WordPress 3.0 came out, I have …

It was refreshing to go to google.com this morning searching for something, as we usually are when we’re online, when the Google logo / image, whatever they call them, captured me. For starter it reminded me today was the World Cup Final. “Not a soccer fan eh?” No, I actually …

Imagine this scenario will you. A girl comes home and opening the door for her is an anxious, waiting mother. As the girl steps in, the mother, obviously impatient, bombards her daughter with rampant questions. “Tell me, what happened? How did it go? Did it go alright?” The daughter, as …

An old man somehow ends up lost in a vast desert where East, West, North and South all reflect an endless terrain of dunes that span far into the distance, into the horizon, as if kissing the skies. It doesn’t matter who this man is, or if he is even …

Ever wonder why the “F” and “J” letters on your keyboard have ridges (small pertruding dashes)? Well I was Googling this very question earlier when I realized that this was somethign worth sharing. The answer is quite simple actually… it’s not like I’ve uncovered the secret to immortality! People who …

Alright so the new body scanners have come out and officials have stated that, yes, as it has been claimed, these new body scanners will be placed in airports to scan travelers’ bodies as they move in and out of airports. And yes, they continue to say, these body scanners …

I don’t know about you, but I personally check the internet for available domain names every time something funky gets in my head. Recently, however, the “.me” domain name has become very popular. I remember when I first acquired the domain name I am using for this blog “kman.ME”, I …

Seriously. I think I have had enough of my car. It has become so heavy on the pocket, seemingly only shirking the contents of my wallet to… thin air. I have a ‘98 Honda Civic. I like my car. It is black, has nice rims, has nice thin profile tires, …

Be punctual. Be prepared. Be creative. Corporate slogans pumped to pump up:  pushing employees to give it all they got. Their biggest nightmare? B12. I recall it was three or four years ago when I first heard a cousin of mine mention B12. Since then, the vitamin has become a …

What’s that thing called again? Ah… love! While it not may be what makes the world go round, it sure is what makes the ride all the more enjoyable. That is perhaps the main reason why billions of people throughout the centuries have seen it fit to dedicate an entire …

Red bull seems to be doing well… They sponsor everything, don’t they? So well that time itself seems to be drinking it; for time seems to have acquired ‘juweineh’ (wings) and is now officially – and I am the official doing the officializing* here – flying. So its been said …

What is the difference between B.C., A.D., B.C.E., and C.E.? B.C., which stands for “Before Christ,” is used to date events before the birth of Jesus. A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin phrase anno Domini, which means “in the year of our Lord,” and is used for dates after …

Some Arabic phrases translated word for word (or close enough) to English seem to somehow lose their meaning or sound utterly hilarious. I’ve only added 4 translated sentences below and hope that you can help me by adding your own translated Arabic-to-English sentences in the comment section. I will later …

February 4th was my birthday. That was almost 3 hours ago. Another year has gone by and I have another 365 days full of events and memories to archive in my head and heart. Time flies has always been the saying, but I would like to stress the fact that …

“Wait wait… go in with your left foot”, is something most of us raised in this part of the world may have heard from our admonishing parents or grandparents as we made our way into bathrooms, washrooms, WCs, toilets, 7ammams, etc… Well left foot or right foot, or both feet …

It was 10 days ago that I got this urge to re-enter the social networking domain via twitter. I’ve been on the sidelines for far too long, I thought to myself, as I firmly decided that I would create my twitter account and get involved. It all started with our …