Personal on Hatem Zidi

When Friends Fade Away

me@hatemzidi.com (Hatem ZIDI) — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.”
— Helen Keller

Friendships don’t always end with fights. Sometimes they just fade, without drama, without closure. One day they’re there. The next, they are just names in your phone.

20 years of blogging

me@hatemzidi.com (Hatem ZIDI) — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been wondering how to celebrate this milestone. Because yeah… today marks exactly 20 years since I hit “publish” on my very first blog post — April 18th, 2005.

That post? Honestly… it was bad. A clumsy “hi”, a confused tone, and zero clue about where I was heading. It was a start.

But hey… here we are. Twenty years later.
Still blogging. Still writing — even if what that means has changed a lot over time. I guess it’s time for a little reflection.

When a clueless Salesperson got me into computers, Inadvertently

me@hatemzidi.com (Hatem ZIDI) — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

So there I was, 8 years old, dragged to the shopping center by my dad because, apparently, shopping for socks is a family event. We’re walking through this temple of consumerism when—BAM!—I spot a computer showroom. Not just any computers. MSX/Sakhr machines .