Rias A. Sherzad

I was always wondering why Double Coffee, a competitor of Starbucks, is using a picture of the famous Pashtun poet Abdul Rahmad Mohmand (1653 – 1711) in their logo. Here’s a picture of “Rahman Baba”, as he’s more commonly known as:

… and here’s a small version of the Double Coffee’s logo (a trademark of Double Coffee company) – sorry, I couldn’t find a larger one:

I’d be interested to find out what they have in common with Rahman Baba and what they will do about all the Afghans in Hamburg that have started stealing table mats from Double Coffee stores that have Rahman Baba’s picture printed on them? :-)

I’m proud to announce that the Salam Business Club has finally went live. Have a look at http://www.salambc.com and sign up for an account now.

After hearing and reading so much about it the past few months I decided to sign up for StumbleUpon.com. You have no idea what it is? Let’s see what Wikipedia says about it…

StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. These webpages are typically presented when the user — known within the community as a Stumbler — clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which new webpage to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. i.e. it is a recommendation system which uses peer and social networking principles. [...]

For me this has become one of the most fun tools lately and I discovered quite a few interesting websites by just stumbling upon them. Give it a try :-)

I’ve recently started filling theserverside.de (yep that’s mine!) with content. Any help is appreciated, so if you’re tech savvy and interested in filling theserverside.de with Java, JEE/J2EE and Oracle related content then drop me an e-mail. I’ll check out your skills (website or profile etc.) and provide you with decent access to the site :-)

This is the “Top 5″ of this month’s folders that people expected to find stuffed with lots of interesting (meaning: private) data when playing around with the URL of this website:

/privat
/mp3
/dokumente
/rias
/admin

There’s nothing exciting on this website’s subfolders for you to see so stop wasting your time and get a life :-)