Posts Tagged ‘Omani Cuisine’

Defamation, Food, Omani Cuisine, and Twitter

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

I haven’t been posting much lately, I don’t know, I’m not hving as much fun in Southampton as I thought I would before I came. It is not like I am having trouble or issues, but I am just not having as much fun as I though I would, yet I’m not sure if I should be having more fun. I’m not having any difficulties with my course, but I’m already tired of some of the reading, at times I go over prepared and at other times I just go to class without reading and BS my way through it. I slowly approaching my reading comfort zone, but I am not really there yet.

Anyway, I made a post on myITLawyer.com about online defamation and the liability of website owners from the British and Omani perpsective, I think that you should surely check it out if you are a blogger or if you run a forum.

I passed by Tesco on my way back from the library and I discovered that they are selling a cool looking sushi meal box. It was really cool, it came with the chopsticks, wasabi, and some soya sauce as well. I am not anexpert in Japanese food, but I thought that this was good.

Speaking of food, I moved the Omani Cuisine to the new server today, and I thought I’ll finally publicize the Arabic version of the Omani Cuisine. I kinda outsourced the translation, but did some editing myself. It does not sound as natural or as nice as the English version, but I thought that it will be nice to have it as a resource for Arabic speaking people as well. It does not have ALL the reviews, and I cannot be bothered to translate it myself, but hopefully when I finish my LLM and resume the Omani Cuisine we will make it bilingual then. For the mean time you can check what we have on it now at http://www.omanicuisine.com/arabic.

Some of your might have noticed my twitter feed on the side of my blog, Kishor also has one, I recently installed a cool Facebook plug-in so that whenever I make a tweet my status is updated on both my blog and my facebook profile at the same time. I use SMS texts to update my twitter status and that makes it really easy.

If you want to do this trick you will have to first get a twitter account obviously, then use the Twitter Badge to show your feed on your blog, and then install the Twitter Facebook application to link the two. You can then update your facebook and your blog status by visiting Twitter (or Twitter Mobile).

Painting @ Cafe Ceramique

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Just posted about Cafe Ceramique at the Omani Cuisine. The place is really awesome, everyone should check it out!

Painting was really fun, but now that I think about it, there weren’t any brushes that were small enough, and the outliners were seriously bad, but yeah, I came out with this. It should be fired and glazed by the end of next week!

Damned Outage!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

All of my web projects are offline because of an service outage from our host. We are using a dedicated server package from 1and1, which is supposed to be one of the best hosting providers in the UK, but I guess than having a 100% uptime is impossible. The horrible thing about this is that I can’t see anything about outage on the control panel and I have no idea for how long this has been going or when it will end. All I know is that Wednesday is usually one of our busier days of the week and we’re losing traffic I type this. Urgh!!!

Update: It’s 2pm and we’re back online. I’m checking some of our stats and it looks like the outage lasted only for two and a lahf hours. (10.30am to 1pm Oman Time).

Omani Cuisine

Friday, May 11th, 2007


A friend of mine and I usually cook at my place every other weekend, so we thought we might as well start a little blog in which we can share our recipes and our other food related posts! Omani Cuisine is not about OMANI food only, in fact, we do not have any Omani recipes on it yet. We just have recipes of whatever food we make. We would also like to start posting some restaurant reviews of places to eat at in Oman, so you might see some of these soon. If you would like to contribute with a recipe or a review, please feel free to email to us at our cuisine email found on our website. Finally, I would like to confirm that all the photographs found on the Omani Cuisine website are of the actual food that we made, and no, I am not kidding.

You can now go ahead and check out the Omani Cuisine at http://www.omanicuisine.com/. Hope that you like it! :D


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