Climbing Broga Hill at Dawn
Last Sunday me and my friends decided to hike to Broga Hill from UNMC campus. We wanted to go there to see the sunrise. So we set out from the campus at about 5:30 in the morning. Since the gate...
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First flight with my DJI Phantom and GoPro
Last December I spotted a seller on eBay selling DJI Phantom quad-copters for the killer price of $439 (plus $49.95 expedited shipping). These multi-rotors originally sold for around $700 when they were first released nearly a year ago, so I...
Happy New Year 2014!
Since 2009 I have kept a small tradition of taking a light painting photo of the coming year on new year’s eve. Sometimes it’s with the help of friends & family and other times like as was in 2010, it’s...
My first international client
About 2 months ago I was contacted via email by a person in Tanzania who wanted a quote on developing a new website for his safari business. He wanted to change the design he already had for www.alfredsafaris.com and make it more...
When the U.S Government blacklists you
Since 9/11 I’ve always heard stories of Muslims all over the world being discriminated by the U.S government just because of their Muslim names. Back in 2011 even a friend of mine was denied entry visa to U.S because of his...
Living abroad for the first time
About 3 weeks ago I started studying BSc (Hons) Computer Science at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). Due to visa problems I arrived 3 weeks late and it was kind of challenging at first to catchup on lessons....
Wataniya eDirectory data for download (1-10-2013)
[note color=”#ffffd6″] Update 16-Feb-2015 Since writing this post Wataniya Maldives was re-branded as Ooredoo Maldives. [/note] This is the Wataniya Telecom Maldives’ e-directory compiled using data publicly available on www.wataniya.mv as of 1st October 2013. This contains 79,432 unique Wataniya mobile numbers...
What’s Dhiraagu’s best “Unlimited” ADSL Broadband Package?
If you are the kind of person who watches Youtube all the time, download movies and software, and is heavily dependent on the internet for your work, then limited internet packages are definitely not for you. I’m saying this from...
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Eid Mubarik to all!
Here’s a video and some pics I took of the mass Eid prayers held in Male’ today. It’s shot using my GoPro HERO3: Black Edition stuck on my XShot 2.0 Camera Extender. Even though I had my Nikon D7000 with...