^Sometimes you have to speak to people in a language they understand.

Layzie, I'll repeat myself since you don't seem to get it - I'm not interested in your birdbrained, feeble minded @ss licking antics. So exercise them at someone else's expense.

^Oh get a grip North!

This isnt funny. This is slander.

GT, why are you picking on me? Maxaan kugu sameeyey?

Lily, please act all high and mighty at someone else's expense. I was just making a point!

Layzie, do you see anything amiss in you getting involved and asking me to mind my own ‘bidness’? Seriously I neither have the time or interest to address your long and childish rant. So don’t hold your breath for a response. As for being made fun of, I assure you I’ve enough of commonsense not to give a second thought to what some people (Like you and T) post here. However, if it crosses the boundaries of decency and forum regulations, I expect it will be dealt with appropriately. In anycase, it looks like X hasn’t taken offence to it. So I’ll save my lesson on the limits of freedom of speech and other people’s rights to be free of your gushing insults disguised as ‘humour’. Ghamina, I know its tempting but you didn’t have to come down to their level. You know what they say, don’t argue with an id!iot, they will take you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Kool_Kat, I dont think its the content that needs to be censored because its obscene, rather the fact that he picked on Xiin, who we all know is married.. . and made fun of Xiin's PRIVATE affairs. I dont know how funny you would think if someone cracked jokes about you and your hubby's bedroom activities. Its just inappropriate to me and many others. And furthermore, Xiin has taken offense to it. I dont think its right for Tuujiye to pick on people in a way that would offend them for his and his sidekicks entertainment. Xiin, have it your old fashioned way then.

^Xiin, SOL is not the little tuulo aad ka timid. So disagreements are not resolved by odayaal However, the donkey moderators need to wake up and do some sort of moderating. I just read what KK quoted and I can see why you would take offense to it.

Originally posted by Baashi: Maandeeq Qorran Qallanjo Luuleey sidaa wax uma xasuusto laakiin waxaad iila yar ekaatay mid ka mida ah hablaha aan jeclahay sida ay afkaarta u dhiibteen sida Raxmah, Tami, iyo midaan aanan xasuusan magaceeda haatan. Its Serenity now

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: calm down kooleey Isnt porcupine called Kooley for short in Soomaali? And kooley cali-banjar otherwise?

^I'm back... but it looks like everyone is away today. Or did they get on each other's nerves about being present online 24/7? LoL. Virtual life is great people... embrace it .

The privacy irony: more or less about social networks Over the past few weeks, I've been to a number of events and conferences where the privacy of social media users has bubbled up in discussions. I'm not one of those people who blurts out "but what about the privacy implications" every time I go somewhere with people in the media or technology industries. But I have started to think a lot, and be concerned about, how much information there is about me online and how that information might be used. During one of the presentations I gave about blogging recently, I got quite an unusual response from the audience. I took their photo and uploaded it flickr, tagged with the cell location data, using zonetag. I then went to the photo on flickr and used the blog this button to publish it into a blog I use for training purposes. I then went back to the flickr page and added a link to the blog post, then clicked the link to visit the page on the blog. After this, I showed them the visit in statcounter which reveals not just where visitors come from if it's via a link on a page, but also quite granular detail like their and someone exlaimed, "How can you do that? Is that legal? I mean, how can they just let people do that?!" I don't think this particular individual was naive. I think MOST people don't realise that every action they take, every search they do, every click, every second they spend online is recorded somewhere and, often, mined for details that will tell website owners more about their customers and their behaviour. Yesterday I decided to do some non-scientific research. I looked at 10 randomly (not randomly generated, I just clicked different profile links on my friends list) selected facebook friends to see what information they display on their profiles. Here's what I found: * Full Date of Birth: 8/10 * Day of Birth but not year: 2/10 (eg. the remainder!) * Hometown: 6/10 * City or Town of Current Residence: 10/10 * Full Name of Partner: 6/10 That's a lot of information that could, potentially, be used to apply for an account or identity document, find out where someone lives, respond to the sort of questions usually asked by banks and credit card providers who want to verify your identification over the phone or online, etc. But sometimes this information is really useful for legitimate purposes. Hardly a week goes by when I don't get a message from a friend who saw something I said on one of the various social networking sites I use and, aside from kind words and such, this has often led to what I often think of as the ultimate measure of a social network's usefulness: I've landed a free coffee or beer out of my participation there. Just last week I was reminded of a good friend's birthday and was able to drop by with a bottle of wine and a card on my way home from work. This week I've noticed, on his profile, that his wife is having her 30th in a few weeks time. Last month, had you looked at either of their profiles, you would have also seen the date of their wedding, her maiden name, and lost of wall posts from friends who would be attending. That's all really useful if you're their friend. And there's the rub. To get the most from a social networking service you need to disclose personal information and the more you disclose, the more you are likely to benefit. If you and those in your network disclose more, you'll probably find it easy to remember social events and birthdays, easier to land a job through your friends and their contacts, easier to find a last minute date without asking someone who is busy, etc. But the irony is, although disclosure of information leads to greater gains, it also increases the danger that someone you don't know will find and use that information in dangerous ways. Yesterday, after my little research project, I removed a lot of information from my facebook profile (and got messages from a dozen people who were concerned by the terse messages facebook puts on your profile when you do!). I've also started going through my list of friends and sending friend detail updates to everyone in the hopes that this will help me weed out the people I know and trust from the people I've more randomly added as friends. And if you want to send me a birthday greeting next year but are in doubt as to the date, drop me an email and I'll send you a reminder closer to the day. Source Watch this video too. Are we sharing too much information on the internet? What about social networks like SOL? I know that many of us make a habit of sharing our daily wiles and worries. Are we sharing too much and putting ourselves at risk? Or are we gaining even more by doing so?

Cara, dont you just hate it when you're making a point (NG uses xabad sowda) and people get side tracked by other peripheral issues (Ghamina serves him porridge)? So SOL was down all of yesterday? Nice. It means I didnt miss any maala-yacni.

Thanks for the tip@Lily. Speaking of food (and really not wanting to brag at all), but they have the BEST selection of food I've seen in an office here. I was totally spoiled for choice... me and my colleague took 25mins just to decide and settle on one meal. If I wasnt afraid of being viewed as greedy, I'd go back there right now. If you must know (@Val), I had some sort of burrito/bariis. It was very nice. And the Germans like to sit in a cafe after lunch and have coffee. Not to mention they make a habit of getting off work at 4... because its a Monday and they feel like it . I would consider relocating if I wasn't the ONLY black person in the entire building of a few hundred people. I actually had second glances a few times. My colleague said he feels like the really cool kid in school (because he is walking with a black person!). Gotta run. Toodles

Yeah, af jarmal is the sort of thing they teach you in Carabta! ... not! Xubeer, the weather is really nicer than London. I'm not just saying that. London was bloody awful this morning - at 5am when I had to get the bloody cab. West@North

@North - Waa Soomaali, what did you expect? When they smell the slightest danger, fuleynimo takes over and they cant help shouting WOLF WOLF.

@North & Xubeer. Anyways, the weather is slightly colder than London by 3C, however, because the sun is out and there is no wind feedhaha kaa galeysa, its much more pleasant. [edit] Hi @ Val. North, how am I to understand waxaad isku dhex walaaqeysid? I suppose you think one automatically comes to the knowledge of the language on landing here?

Yeah right!

I'm not in the entire UK maanta. Totally irrelevant to the topic, I know. But I just felt like sharing the fact that I'm working from abroad

Horta, inantan Layzie miyaan la hadley? Isqor bilaa liis dheh. Layzie, salaantaada iyo caydaada'ba hayso. Alright? :mad: I've had to google what Bruja is, so no thanks for wasting my time. Zafir, marka danbe try in aad isku mar na wada salaantid. I dont particularly like salaanta dambe. But Hi back

I've raised enough bariis for 2 people.

^Adigu horta maxaad Val uun u salaantaa? What about the rest of us, we dont deserve a measly Hi?

Sources have it that there are over 130 new entries. Nice. Welcome kids.

Originally posted by Didi Kong: quote:Originally posted by -Serenity-: Attending a private school in Carabta has great many benefits - effortlessly going to western universities and being able to work anywhere in the world later on. Its completely understandable why Somali parents would consider English very important, because they see their residence in Arab countries as temporary and they want their kids to have skills (like English) that are easily transferable. However often Somali parents like Layzie's and my own overlook the importance of teaching their kids Arabic. I thought only Indo-Pak parents felt this way. What a revelation. All Somalis I know that lived in Carabta regardless of schooling speak Arabic. How can one live in a country and not speak the local language? It seems strange but not when you learn about the race demographic of Arab countries. Where I lived, there were an equal number of foreigners as there were Arabs, and when one interacts with foreigners and Arabs who speak English all the time, there is little opportunity to study the Arabic language. Also, it doesn't help when not knowing the language is not a hindrance in the least. Still, I'm not that hopeless. I understand when spoken to. North, maybe she isn't catching Somali well, because adigaa baraya