You can do most of the common necessary banking transactions online these days, except when you need to deposit some cash in your account. And the solution is Cash Deposit Machines (CDMs) .
They solve a lot of troubles and are very convenient to use since you don’t have to go to the bank during their working hours and stand in line just to deposit some money, you can easily drive to any ATM that has the Deposit feature (CDM) at midnight and deposit your money as easy as you withdraw it ..
What I know is that the first bank to make Cash deposit machines available is Burgan Bank, then NBK , then KFH .
I personally used both KFH and NBK , NBK has a lot of CDMs and they are so reliable .. out of the hundreds times that I’ve used them they always work except 2 times ..



But KFH is a different story, for starters they only have 2 machines in Al-Asimah .. and most of the time they don’t work .. I want to know why on earth they put these machines out there and market them when they don’t do what they are supposed to do !! almost every time I try to deposit cash I get a message saying “ the Cash deposit service is no available” , and for my bad luck it’s always a critical time .. Once I tried one in Alfaiha then the one in Hawally and they both didn’t work so I called the bank and they told me to try the one el AlFarwaneyah I went they and it didn’t work either ..
The problem that’s upsetting the most is the reason they give when you call and complain about this problem, their excuse was that the machine is full and it’s the weekend so there’s no one there to take the money out of the machines !! how ridiculous is that a giant bank are can’t collect money from their machines just because it’s THE WEEKEND !!
It’s the weekend when people will use this the most because the bank branches will be close .. It’s the weekend when the shops that use the machines to deposit their daily cash sales have an increase in sales .. so it’s the time when people use and need this service the most, but for them it’s the time when it’s OK that the service is not working !
I think that they should be more clear about their services and it’s availability , they can’t market the service and say that you can deposit at any time or 24/7 where most of the time that this service is needed it doesn’t work ..
MrMMM on July 20th 2007 in Technology
Intellectual property rights in the middle east is not only ignored, but it has reached a point way beyond just being ignored. Now people are not only pirating the content, they are treating the content that they illegally copied as if it was their content.
For example you see that Arabic music websites are not only making copyrighted content freely available on their websites, creating a large amount of traffic for them to sell ads their websites, without fearing of any legal actions from the original content owner .. They are now adding credits for their websites on the pirated songs files and embedding their websites on the sound track itself ..
I wonder when will this thing stop, it’s really sad that of all the Arabic websites out there, there is a very small percentage that contain their own original content, most websites are just filled with pirated content ..
MrMMM on July 18th 2007 in Technology

This is not about you playing the coach simulation game Manager, it’s about you becoming one of the owners of a real english football team along with 50,000 other members ..
William Brooks a Passionate 36 years old fullham fan , started My Foot Ball Club .. the idea is to find 50,000 football fans interested in buying and running a football club, collect a an annual £35 (around 20KD) then buy the club with the money the collect from the members .. after that the members will be owners in the club, and they will be able to decide and vote on all the decisions for the club like who players should they buy, what formation they should use for any game and every little detail starting from the what club should they buy and what will they do with the stadium and ending with the jersey colors and what manufacturer they should contract with.
and everything is done using the website, the member will vote on the player selection and team formation and then the coach will use it in the game ( so for once in stead of the fans blaming the coach the coach can blame the fans if the team loses ) ..
the impressing thing is that the whole project only started in April and till now they have 45,247 members registered alread .. at a rate of 300 members per day .. so at this rate they will reach their target 50,000 members in about two weeks .
I’ve already registered and I’ll see what happens, they will request the fees later ..
Here’s alink to an interview with the founder on wired website with a lot more details ..
tell us what do you think about this idea, do u thing it will work or it wont ?
This got me into thinking about the enigma of managing the our national team .. what we can replace the Kuwait Football Association with this system .. will the fans be pleased if they can manage the national team themselves? will it be better, worst or just crazy?

MrMMM on July 14th 2007 in Technology