There is at least one person who is not happy with Jake’s old-fashioned game of blog tag. Howard Rogers has shut down his website in protest against this latest blog tag craze. Right now, it’s a madhouse I want no part of, Howard writes on his, now one page, site. He also expressed his frustration […]

Jake Kuramoto has tagged me to write eight things about myself in an effort to “learn more about the people you interact with using New Web”. Without further ado, here I am personally telling you 8 secrets about my personal life:

Now, the next tagged victims are: Tom Kyte, Doug Burns, Mark Rittman, Ameed Taylor, Alex […]

For the first time since I moved to Oregon about 8 years ago, I attended the yearly Oregon International Airshow at the Hillsboro airport with my son George last Saturday. I was happily surprised that Sean Tucker and Team Oracle were going to perform in the show.

In case you do not know, Sean D. Tucker […]

If you are one of the lucky people who was greeted by the following dreaded error page when you visited my blog, OraQA.com or OraNA.info in the past few weeks, I have good news for you (and me). Obviously, the shared hosting account that I had with BlueHost.com could not handle the load of three […]

Jonathan wrote that “keep pouring cold water on everything” may not translate well because of the colloquialisms. This got me thinking about when I first arrived in the United States back in 1998. I thought I knew the English language very well. After all, I graduated from a well respected American university in Lebanon. Little […]

Here is an interesting post about things you should avoid blogging about. I could not agree more with the following:

…There’s no real point to those “I can’t blog ’cause I’m too busy” posts other than giving a cop-out for not keeping up with your blog. People come to your blog to read your […]

Just a quick note to thank you all for your warm comments to my previous post: World Population = World Population + 1. I feel like you are my extended family online.

I now have a little bit of time to stay up-to-date about all the news that I missed during the past few days, and […]

Today, my wife Jasmine, my son George and I welcomed Julie, the latest addition to the Awad family. Jasmine gave birth to Julie, a beautiful 8.2 lbs baby girl, at 10:41 AM (PST) on September 26, 2006. Both mom and baby are doing fine. As a result of this life changing event, I have taken […]

Last week I attended a “Chinese cultural workshop”. The company I work for will open a new manufacturing plant in China soon. So, employees were invited to attend this workshop in order to “understand” the Chinese people and how to do business with them.

My wife is born and raised in China. She taught me everything […]

I have switched my online feed/news reader from Bloglines to Google Reader. Bloglines has always been my favorite, but I wanted to use GReader’s unique features - which you can read all about at the GReader blog.

The GReader’s newest feature allows you to add your reading list (or any label of your choosing) as a […]