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I’m Back, Baby!
It has been quite some time – over two years – since I last wrote here. Or anywhere, to be honest, unless I was writing for work. I finally quit a job that had drained all life from me, and I’m starting a new job tomorrow. Ahead of this change, I thought about getting back to some good habits. Blogging, journaling, exercising. So, this is the start of a second wind that this blog has deserved for…
Regrets about learning Arabic
So, it's been over a year now since I started learning Arabic. I've been chipping away at it whenever I can find the time, mostly on weekends or whenever my college schedule allows. I'll be straight with you — I'm not exactly racing ahead. I'm still at the point where I can only construct simple statements like, 'Sorry, could you repeat that?' I am not exactly optimistic about myself, to be…
A Necessary Guide to Mother Tongues
Today, I finally graduated from my University (yaaay)! To feed the nostalgia, I was surfing through the projects that I did during my time there. There, I came across a presentation that I had made last year. The topic was "A Necessary Guide to Mother Tongues" . We could have chosen any topic for the project, but it was my idea to choose this topic. I come from a multilingual country, and language…
A Free Press Cannot Be Free
News should be free. Right to Information 1 , after all, is a fundamental human right, and news is information. The latest and important information, anyway. Information should not be the monopoly of the rich alone. Today, thanks to Google , Facebook and Twitter, news is finally free. 2 But in between digging out truths and fighting the status quo, journalists have to eat too. Somebody will need…
Features Firefox Should Steal From Chrome
I have used Google Chrome (before I understood what privacy was) and a variety of Chromium-based browsers (mainly Brave, but also Vivaldi, Ungoogled Chromium, ...) for a long time. However, since I switched to Linux at the end of last year, I stuck with the Firefox (that came pre-installed with Ubuntu). Although I also installed Brave, a nostalgic part of me wanted to experience what Firefox was…
The Multiverse of Private Search Engines
Search engines are a peculiar thing. They are, quite literally, our gateway to the internet. Therefore, it is no surprise that the first web search engine(s) -- since there were multiple -- went live in 1993, only three years since the first website went live. Even before the advent of the World Wide Web, pre-web search engines for protocols like FTP and Gopher existed. (Fun fact: one of the…
My Writing Set Up
I think the set up of a person's computer (or laptop) tells a lot about their personality. One's laptop (okay, I'm going to stick with this term) is an extension of themselves. It is like a thinking man's horoscope -- one look at someone's desktop and I can understand quite a few things about them. Below, I present my writing set up. As someone who loves writing, and often spends significant time…