Eject: Iraqi Konfused Kollege Kid

I've been wanting to post something about this for a while now. This guy is becoming one of my heroes. I think he should sell someone the rights for a movie based on his life and his postings.


The Kid

He's a 21 year old computer engeneering student living in Baghdad. He's a fan of science fiction and an aspiring (heavy metal) guitarist who started a blog in July 2005 called Eject: Iraqi Konfused Kollege Kid. Somehow, he got the attention of the New York Times who asked him to write posts for their TimesSelect blog called Day to Day in Iraq in which he and other Iraqi bloggers participated. It's there that I came across this post from him which really moved me as it shocked me to discover how much this guy thinks like I did at his age... This was the first post that led me to explore the Iraqi blogosphere which I posted about a while ago here and here.

Unfortunately, TimesSelect is the pay portion of the New York Times web site... and I really want to share this story... so I'm probably breaking a few copyright laws by doing this but here are a few of his posts from the Times Day to Day in Iraq feature. In my defence, I strongly urge you to take a subscription with TimesSelect. ...c'mon! It's only eight bucks a month! ...or fifty bucks for a whole year! And it's worth every penny!

February 1, 2006 - Cartoons, Bombs and Ancient Anger

May 19, 2006 - Sectarian Tendencies in C++ Programming and Elsewhere in The New Free Democratic Iraq ™ (This was the first I read)

May 26, 2006 - Maliki Announces Government, Zarqawi Announces Dress Code

June 5, 2006 - Figuring It All Out: BiSK/BiSHK

June 21, 2006 - A Goat’s Rhetoric

June 29, 2006 - Last Words from the Wreckage (His final New York Times post)


The Kid continues to post on his own blog.