Mo Ibrahim is a Sudanese born British businessman.  From modest beginings as an Engineer in Sudan Telecom to Celltel an African cellphone empire to being valued at 5 billion dollars by Forbes.  The founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation which helps promote democracy by offering a 5 million dollar prize to African heads of state [...]

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Al Ahram printed this article today, on the Egyptian Hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan.  It is a small millitary hospital in Bagram which treats Afghan patients for free, providing artificial limbs and performing opthalmology operations.  Led by Ahmed Ashry, the hospital has grown from seeing 100 patients a day to seeing and treating whoever walks in.  [...]

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“Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.”
- Zig Ziglar

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I have some bad micro addictions that I am trying to break.  This post at ZenHabits inspired me so much that I decided to turn it into my wallpaper.  Click the image to get the 1024 x 768 version.

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Some people are very talented.  Clay art by Sha3teely

Rashid 2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!.

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The amount of young women starting up their own creative business endeavours makes me proud.  I am what you could call a simple feminist.  I am all for girl power, equal rights and strong women but with good traditional family values.  I love that these women are creative.  I love that they have passion for [...]

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I’ve been thinking about the things I want to do or see before I die ever since I posted about it (yes I sometimes think too much).  So here is a list of things in nor particular order:

White water raft.  I once saw a documentary on white water rafting and have wanted to try it [...]

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For more of these visit Before I die I want to…

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Another day of happy blog hopping got me to Colorless Turtle’s post on Principles of Success- Becoming a Person of Integrity on values.  So I thought hell, that’s easy I have lots of values and principles in life, not to mention millions of opinions but that’s just another post.  Being the ever so annoying [...]

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In an attempt to help change the world, this blog is participating in Blog Action Day 2008.  This year the theme is poverty.  Poverty together with ignorance, war and disease are all intertwined.  Eliminating one of them will help with the others.  Blogging about poverty in itself might not change thing, but blogging raises awareness [...]

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