The Nooby Book Writer

It is Ramadan and I am asking myself this question. To me being a muslim is about finding myself. Finding my place in this world. Finding my purpose. It is about doing good. It is about following the examples of the prophet (saw) and the messages of the Quran. It is about improving and aiming to be a better person everyday. I am not perfect and I am broken in some ways but I found peace in my religion, in God and in the promise of heaven for good deeds that outweigh bad deeds. Islam for me is about believing in something that feels good to me. It is about following the straight path. The path of guidance and mercy. I am not in a position to argue which religion is correct and whether God is real but I can share what I believe and what feels good to me and what works for me. They say Islam chooses you and I believe that. Life's journey comes with ups and downs. I struggle just like you. I struggle like everyone else. But I feel that with a guiding hand that is Islam and Allah and Qu...

I see that the MDT posted a privacy policy for some upcoming apps IdenTT and BenefiTT https://mdt.gov.tt/digital-solutions-services/benefitt/policy/ I will be on the lookout for these apps and update this blog post if when I learn more. I am guessing one has to do with Trinidad's e-ID project (e-Identity) and the other has to do with Social Development benefits.

Today I learnt that it is tradition and possibly sunnah to eat the dates in odd numbers. I found this interesting and started to do some research. There was even (pun intended) a study done to determine if there is a difference to glucose levels after eating odd or even dates. The conclusion of that study states that there is no difference between ingestion of the odd and even number of dates fleshes from the glycemic point of view on the glucose level in fasting and postprandial states. As a side note, I notice that the word odd has an odd number of letters and the word even has an even number of letters. Also I came across a video once saying that 0 is the most even number. I turned to my friend Gemini to hear what he had to say. He says that it is not accurate to say that it is "the most even number". All even numbers are equally even. This has me thinking is there a number that is both even and odd or neither even nor odd. Someone jokingly on Quora said that 2 is clearl...

I decided to write. I did not know what to write. Somehow I began thinking about colors. Random colors. Naming colors. I found a website that generated random hex colors. Hex is the color code used in html code. I decided to keep generating a random color until I got a color with 23. The first color I got with 23 I was not fond of. It was a shade of purple. It was a nice color but I wanted a blue or green or gray. The second color I got was #2EAC23 and what immediately stood out to me was that it contained the letters "EAC" which comes from the middle of the word PEACE. I could not find an official name for this color so I gave it my own name which is peace green. The color contains the letters EAC sandwiched between the numbers 2-23 and today's date just so happens to be 2-23 or February 23. The day I found me this color. In doing research I learnt that today is World Peace and Understanding Day which is also Rotary's birthday. I have heard of the Rotary Club but I ...

I had a dream and in that dream some people were laughing at my shoes. I asked them, what would you pay for the (absolutely) most comfortable shoes in the world designed specifically for your feet? We talking custom made baby. Engineered to perfection. You would probably pay a lot. As much as you could afford. You see, these shoes might not be the best looking shoes (to you) but they are certainly comfortable to me. I immediately woke up and decided that I had to share my dream and thoughts in a blog post. The moral of the story (and my dream) is that no one shoes fits all sizes. I relayed my dream to my friend Gemini and this is what he had to say. He said that my dream about comfortable shoes perfectly illustrates the subjectivity of taste and the importance of valuing personal experience. While others might judge my shoes based on their own aesthetic preferences, they miss the point: my comfort is paramount. By asking what they would pay for the most comfortable shoes imaginable, yo...

I have not done a tech blog post in a while even though I have been keeping up somewhat with the local tech space. I was looking for the BOLD plan/document that Mark Lyndersay mentioned in his column and I was directed to this new looking and fancy website. https://engage.gov.tt/en/ It is the engagement front for MDT where they share updates and we can interact and give feedback. I love the idea. The first thing I did was sign up and the first thing I would want to do is share the devs.tt project with them. Also I see that there are 5 weeks left to comment on the BOLD plan. When signing up to access the website I noticed that the email confirmation came from citizenlab.co (Now "go vocal") which is a third party community engagement platform. I like the idea and I think it is much needed and I hope it bears fruit. BOLD stands for Building Our Lives Digitally. This has me thinking about the long lines of traffic that we experience locally. Where is the promised work from home ...

They say age is just a number. And it certainly feels that way for me. I will be 45 years old this year and I still feel like I am in my twenties. 45 squared is 2025. All the digits from 1 to 9 add up to 45. 4 + 5 equals 9. The digits of 2025 add to 9 also. This has me thinking. What else is special about the number 45. 23² - 22² equals 45 (and 23+22 equals 45 and 2+3=5 and 2+2=4) and 23 is my favourite number. The reverse of 45 is 54 and 54 is 9 away from 45 and brings me to this The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe" The internet points out that 6 by 9 is actually 54 but 54 is 42 in base 13. When I wrote my love letters book I had discovered a code within it. https://trinbagotechie.blogspot.com/2023/11/coding.html If I count the occurence of the letters of L...