It was the monthly kuwait bloggers meetup , this time we went to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf a very nice establishment , i was there a bit early ( i always try to get early if i have a meeting or interview or date with someone , getting early is better than getting late )

anyway , it was a nice to attach faces and sound to bloggers , first to come was the crazy afro man , tatabotata his afro is something you don’t see a lot here in kuwait
then Nibaq or as some call him blogging godfather
then Bloboz the man with crazy thought , the man you always agree with , the blogger who everyone enjoy his posts they steal it
then busynow ( i’m out of crazy naming 🙁 )

we sat there , talked about blogging , gossiped about some bloggers , one of us had too much gossip
disucssed latest topic , then it became general chat , the topics ( سوالف ) just drift going here and there.

meeting strangers is a new experince for me , of course this is the second meeting with bloggers , most who i met in the first meeting ( bloboz was the new guy , and he got a friend with him , maybe to back him up ? 😛 )
of course since there is a month gap between each meeting and the other we got to talk about what happened to our life , sometimes there are stuff you wouldn’t want to post in a blog, but would talk about it normaly with friends

thanks for the fun night blogpals© 🙂

the fad now is E-government , everyone want everything online , some make it , some don’t

of course since we in kuwait enjoy participating in fads , they started kuwait e-government
some Ministries have working functioning sites , with much help online

for example Public Authority for Civil Information have
Civil ID Enquiry Service ( of course you get more service in arabic , since its the offical language in kuwait )

saddly most Ministries have sites that only have normal information , no updated statistic , or service that they perform and give it to us online .

for example Ministry of Intertior ( again english site suck and you have to use arabic ) has no statistic so ever , you could ( for a short time , around 2 days after they opened the site ) check your tickets online , which is great , better than calling and waiting for someone to pick it up , then they removed it .
of course , knowing how stuff work in kuwait , they had it open for a few days , showed it to the Minister and select others who happen to control the contracts for renewal …etc , and afte they saw it they don’t care about it anymore and since it take resource they took it down

the first link to the e-government site could help you people working on Kuwiki so go and and write more , don’t let me and nibaq article stay lonely 🙂