For the third time this year. A 6 day windsurfing break. I hope it will be warm, sunny and with some good wind.

من سنة تقريبا رج زلزال المحيط الهندي العالم كلة. عرفنا بنوع جديد من الكوارث. قتل آلاف البشر، بالتقريب 275,000 و العدد غير دقيق و مازال يراجع. و تشرد 14 ألف شخص و شرد أكثر من مليون شخص.

لم أفقد عزيز لي في هذا الحادث و لكن من هولة سأقف …

I am spending hours doing nothing except playing Sudoku. It is very addictive. I don't even want to write about it a lot. Just this breif post is sufficient, I am in the middle of solving a puzzle right now.

Read more about Sudoku.

UPDATE already started, thanks for Sabbah for the photo. More photos on flickr

In few minutes (sorry for not announcing earlier). The 2nd GlobalVoices summit will start. GVO Editors, bloggers and journalists will be participating.

You can join online by listening to the live webcast, check the live blog and …

MasaMania writes (with tons of photos) about street racing in Tokyo. Hashiriya is the name of the races. Seeing the photos I never could have imagined that there could be so much powerful cars in just one place.

And the rules are:

... Hashiriya never be scare of police. They memorise …

Alaa reports that armed state security forces detained the Egyptian journalist Ahmad Abdollah "Abo Islam". They broke in to his house on Monday. Five bloggers visited him and knew from his son that state security forces threatened his family at gun point and confiscated computer hard drives, CDs and books …

The Egyptian version of the Zastava 128 GLS is back and available for sale. The Car of the year 1969 is back in production in 2005. Well, actually it is almost 2006 by now.

Speaking of 2006 and the 21st century and so on. Read about hybrid vehicles.

But you …

This is a story that touches anyone. Her smile now is far more powerful than the bomb.