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Monday, October 16, 2006

Bahai calendar

The U.S. Bahai community has a very nice Bahai calendar you can print out and put on your fridge. Click on the PDF. (Thanks Kev for the find.)

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Aref: African. Persian. World Citizen.

Check out this video about Aref: African. Persian. World Citizen. It's well done, by Bahai filmmaker Ryan Haidarian. This short is about Aref, a black child in Botswana who was adopted by an Iranian Bahai couple. Incidentally he is the little brother of a friend of mine who I went to Cal with (Negar A.). Shout out to Roya for finding this!

Jajah.com - Free & Cheap international calls!

This post is to recommend Jajah.com. Farshid recommended it to me, so I can't take the credit of finding it. It's very simple - go to Jajah.com, enter your own phone number, the number you want to call, and press send. The system then calls your phone and connects you to the destination number. The phone call quality was great - better (and 2.5 cents cheaper) than the 1019898 service you can use from a landline. (Depending on the country, 1019898 might be cheaper. Just add 1019898 before the international calling code, country code, then number.) With Jajah.com, calling El Salvador costs only 7.5 cents and to call Israel is just 2.5 cents. To call China it's free! And if you all register and call me, it's also free, regardless of where you are!

Here's the line from the Web site:

The JAJAH Free Global Calling Plan applies to land line and mobile calls to and within the United States; Canada; China; Hong Kong; Singapore and Taiwan and it applies to landline calls to and within Australia; UK; Germany; France; Italy and most other European nations. It applies when both call participants are registered JAJAH users. In countries where free phone calls are not available, or if someone is calling a non-JAJAH member, calls are simply subject to JAJAH’s ultra-low rates: http://www.jajah.com/info/rates/.

Monday, October 02, 2006

HCD Art

Check out Mr. Dunbar's paintings. Truly incredible. You can see some older paintings here.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Josh and Jessica in Honduras

My brother Josh and cousin Jessica are volunteering for six months at a Bahai-inspired orphanage. Check them out here.

Friday, September 29, 2006

Kaiser Permanente

So I work for Kaiser Permanente, America's first Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). My project is a new software application that is part of a larger effort to transform KP to be more competitive in relation to other health care providers. Read about it here.

Pimp your ride

If you are a fan of the "Pimp your Ride" show on MTV, you'll love these rims. You can project an image onto them or a message for the car driving next to you, all controlled by an on-screen computer.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Alia

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Originally uploaded by Badnam.

How cute is Alia!

Salsa dancing @ Elham's wedding

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Originally uploaded by Badnam.

Check me out salsa dancing at Elham's wedding with Fiana. Click on the photo for more pics.

ABS and Elham's wedding

Here are pics provided by Sharaf - the first one is me and Mo at a mexican lunch break during last weekend's ABS conference in Burlingame.

The others are from Elham and Kiro's wedding at Bosch Bahai School in Santa Cruz:

Me and Badi

Me and Sharaf

Crazy boys wedding photos

Monday, June 19, 2006

Justino Bandito

Justino Bandito
Originally uploaded by BlakeRead.

Check out pics of my recent trip to Mexico with our fearless leader Blake and friends. This is a pic Blake took of me sporting my hanky with the mariachis playing in the background. I also posted a few photos here.