Mystery solved

I got a Time Out Dubai magazine tied to my doorknob a week ago, in a silver bag, seemed hand delivered. I thought fine, probably everyone gets it. But there were no magazines at the other apartments, and in addition, my copy had my name on a sticky label. As I live in a temporary flat, I found it a little strange. Even stranger, this happened again yesterday. It seems that it is not a one-off introductory promotion but I have a subscription for it. Why? How? How did they learn my address?

Today I was Stumble-ing on the internet (Stumble is a Firefox extension that gives random interesting site hits, excellent if you want to do Nothing in between two Something), and as the first random hit, found this article about how to reclaim your name on the internet after posting some embarrassing facts about yourself that eats itself into Google. It says registering with LinkedIn will score immediately well on Google. Well, I do have a LinkedIn account. I performed a search on my name to see if it was true. And actually, LinkedIn was nowhere near the top. However, I noticed a strange page that apparently mentioned me and I never heard of.

This is a site where you could name which performer you wish to come and throw a concert next season in Dubai. I remember looking at it a few months ago, but I have not even fully completed the form they had.

Anyway, go to Prizes, and then click on "100x Time Out Subscription". Oh yeahhh. I am a winner.

I would have never learned without this sequence of coincidences.

The city of

There was a competition this morning on radio to find a motto for Dubai. The winners were:

• Dubai - Mall, Another Mall, and a Mall in between two Malls.
• Dubai - where indicator is an optional extra.
• Dubai - or not to buy.

There were a lot more good ones that I forgot already.