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Ubuntu Camel Race

[tags] Camel, Dead Sea, Jordan, Race, ubuntu, camel race, dead sea, jordan [/tags]

huh? just to finger the Government?

Would you abide by speed limit to save your life and others lives; to participate in making our streets safer for the sake of being a good citizen or would you be like Khalaf and do it just to avoid speeding ticket and then to finger the government ? Khalaf - I mean it. Today I went to Irbid, and on the way about 8 patrols were stopping cars. As for me, I used my cruise control to adjust my speed every few minutes (whenever the speed limit changes). It took me a few minutes longer, but I managed to avoid being stopped. I have vowed that they will not take another dinar from me for any traffic violations. Imagine if we all decide to do this. Nobody will be fined, and the government will lose the investment that it made. What better way to lift our collective middle finger to our insatiably greedy government? He's saying it as if the government and police patrols are aliens (too much star wars?) aren't they our families, relatives and friends? Why do we look at them as strangers

huh? just to finger the Government?

Would you abide by speed limit to save your life and others lives; to participate in making our streets safer for the sake of being a good citizen or would you be like Khalaf and do it just to avoid speeding ticket and then to finger the government ? Khalaf - I mean it. Today I went to Irbid, and on the way about 8 patrols were stopping cars. As for me, I used my cruise control to adjust my speed every few minutes (whenever the speed limit changes). It took me a few minutes longer, but I managed to avoid being stopped. I have vowed that they will not take another dinar from me for any traffic violations. Imagine if we all decide to do this. Nobody will be fined, and the government will lose the investment that it made. What better way to lift our collective middle finger to our insatiably greedy government? He's saying it as if the government and police patrols are aliens (too much star wars?) aren't they our families, relatives and friends? Why do we look at them as strangers

When thing goes wrong, just be cool about it

[tags] application, cool, error, Web, error tags, application error, cool web, web application[/tags]

How do we use The Internet?

In Jordan, We visit Facebook & Hi5 more than Wikipedia Visit blogger more than Addastour newspaper gets information from Panet.co.il more than aljazeera consume bandwidth on pornography but not CNN or educational sites more astonishing statistics by Alexa.com

How do we use The Internet?

In Jordan, We visit Facebook & Hi5 more than Wikipedia Visit blogger more than Addastour newspaper gets information from Panet.co.il more than aljazeera consume bandwidth on pornography but not CNN or educational sites more astonishing statistics by Alexa.com

Dear Lord

We're going to ship horrible product and you're setting unrealistic deadlines and QA always gets the shaft and do we support Inernet Explorer 7 and my credibility is on the line here and Jesus Christ didn't we learn our last time please I hate HTML and this developer keeps on diddling with shit #Rands rule of the software management #27: If someone is going to freak out, it's going to be on Monday. That was a quote taken out of Managing Human book; you can never feel bored while reading this book. Lemme quote Joel Spolsky on her feedback about it What you're holding in your hands is by far the most brilliant book about managing software teams you're ever going to find. If you are in a bookstore, buy it immediately, take it home and read it right now. If you've found this book on a friend's bookshelf,m steal it immediately. you don't have time to get to a bookstore, and you can always make new friends later. I just cannot be more expressive than Joel

Dear Lord

We're going to ship horrible product and you're setting unrealistic deadlines and QA always gets the shaft and do we support Inernet Explorer 7 and my credibility is on the line here and Jesus Christ didn't we learn our last time please I hate HTML and this developer keeps on diddling with shit #Rands rule of the software management #27: If someone is going to freak out, it's going to be on Monday. That was a quote taken out of Managing Human book; you can never feel bored while reading this book. Lemme quote Joel Spolsky on her feedback about it What you're holding in your hands is by far the most brilliant book about managing software teams you're ever going to find. If you are in a bookstore, buy it immediately, take it home and read it right now. If you've found this book on a friend's bookshelf,m steal it immediately. you don't have time to get to a bookstore, and you can always make new friends later. I just cannot be more expressive than Joel

Chechen resistance and News coverage

Why nobody is covering news about Chechen? starting from the current conditions there up to Chechen resistance, why suddenly all news is about Palestine and Iraq, aren't they Muslims just like us with a cause that been there for hundred of years? [tags] www youtube, chechen, current conditions, muslims, palestine, resistance, iraq [/tags]

Chechen resistance and News coverage

Why nobody is covering news about Chechen? starting from the current conditions there up to Chechen resistance, why suddenly all news is about Palestine and Iraq, aren't they Muslims just like us with a cause that been there for hundred of years? [tags] www youtube, chechen, current conditions, muslims, palestine, resistance, iraq [/tags]

Things you can do with Lemon?

ideas ideas please

Things you can do with Lemon?

ideas ideas please

Six actions every person should accomplish before turning 18

Thanks for the tag MommaBean , if you want to check the rules and other stuff check MommaBean tag post Here is my six actions every person should accomplish before turning 18. File immigration application *before it's too late* it's ok if s/he want to try out universities here until they process the immigration application receives his residency approval buy a ticket to his new home Enjoy establishing a new life with a high standards get what he deserve and never look back again. I tag Jano , Sharkouseh , tooteh , Sari , dadan and bakkouz [tags] immigration application, sari, universities [/tags]

Six actions every person should accomplish before turning 18

Thanks for the tag MommaBean , if you want to check the rules and other stuff check MommaBean tag post Here is my six actions every person should accomplish before turning 18. File immigration application *before it's too late* it's ok if s/he want to try out universities here until they process the immigration application receives his residency approval buy a ticket to his new home Enjoy establishing a new life with a high standards get what he deserve and never look back again. I tag Jano , Sharkouseh , tooteh , Sari , dadan and bakkouz [tags] immigration application, sari, universities [/tags]

Ali's fate

[tags] photography, photo, story, photojournalism, JPG, magazine [/tags]

Ali's fate

[tags] photography, photo, story, photojournalism, JPG, magazine [/tags]

Dumping man from wheelchair

There are plenty of human rights organisations focusing on human rights status in the Middle East and they are trying to draw attention to us as the worst place for human rights. They might be right to certain extent but in general they try to catch any incident to make a buzz out of it even if it's a mistake by an individual or just a single incident and they do present it and talk about it as such thing would never happen in their countries but in fact what happens there is worst than what we got here. What they did to the wheeled man is rather humiliating [tags] www youtube, human rights status, buzz, extent, mistake, middle east [/tags]

Dumping man from wheelchair

There are plenty of human rights organisations focusing on human rights status in the Middle East and they are trying to draw attention to us as the worst place for human rights. They might be right to certain extent but in general they try to catch any incident to make a buzz out of it even if it's a mistake by an individual or just a single incident and they do present it and talk about it as such thing would never happen in their countries but in fact what happens there is worst than what we got here. What they did to the wheeled man is rather humiliating [tags] www youtube, human rights status, buzz, extent, mistake, middle east [/tags]

The Veil and the Flesh

[tags] photography, file, magazine [/tags]

The Veil and the Flesh

[tags] photography, file, magazine [/tags]

Carry your Tripod and you are next

Photographer Mistaken for Gunman Sheridan College in Ontario was locked down last Friday because it was suspected a gunman was on the premises. Thankfully, it was a false alarm, but how do you mistake a gunman? Apparently, all it took was a lone photographer, some camouflage cargo pants and his free-standing tripod. The emergency services were alerted by a professor and his eight students, who all reported they had seen a suspicious man carrying a "long, tubular object." Following a campus lock down and a thorough two hour search, nothing was found. Information incoming across the weekend has indicated a photographer with a tripod was the reason for the disturbance, though he has yet to be located and spanked for all the fuss he caused. Let this be a lesson to you camouflage cargo pant-wearing weirdos; don't wear camouflage cargo pants. You're not in the army, you suck. Talking of things that suck, according to a satirical joke we are about to make, the NRA was said t

Carry your Tripod and you are next

Photographer Mistaken for Gunman Sheridan College in Ontario was locked down last Friday because it was suspected a gunman was on the premises. Thankfully, it was a false alarm, but how do you mistake a gunman? Apparently, all it took was a lone photographer, some camouflage cargo pants and his free-standing tripod. The emergency services were alerted by a professor and his eight students, who all reported they had seen a suspicious man carrying a "long, tubular object." Following a campus lock down and a thorough two hour search, nothing was found. Information incoming across the weekend has indicated a photographer with a tripod was the reason for the disturbance, though he has yet to be located and spanked for all the fuss he caused. Let this be a lesson to you camouflage cargo pant-wearing weirdos; don't wear camouflage cargo pants. You're not in the army, you suck. Talking of things that suck, according to a satirical joke we are about to make, the NRA was said t

Batch photo editing, The Linux way

I'm really in love with those tiny tools that can do the magic to you when you are really depressed looking for a miracle to get your task done. I work as action photographer in my free time and yesterday I had to edit 200 shot in a very short time, first I downloaded the RAWs into my computer and then started to delete the ruined ones and then I needed a way to convert all of my CR2 files into JPG; after bit of googling I found that there is a living application out there called DCRAW that let you decode all of your RAW files and then you can pass your decoded data into a tiny application called CJPEG that can compress the image file into JPEG image file and so I did [coolcode] for i in *.CR2; do dcraw -c -a -w -v $i | cjpeg -quality 100 > $i.jpg; done; [/coolcode] This is the magic of command line tools in GNU/Linux, I was able to get all of my RAWs decoded and converted into JPEG in about two hours which includes googling for for the way to batch edit photos and convert R

Captin Abu Raed

I've never left a theatre with a decision to come back and watch it again and I never reviewed a film too. If you are Ammani or more specifically if you are Jabal Ammanie then you will definitely feel connected to this film. If the smell of Jabal Amman & Down town means something to you then you will feel you are one of the crew just as if you are in an out of body experience watching friends and neighbours. Again I'm not a film reviewer, so maybe you should check 360east & Black Iris reviews. [tags] Captin, Abu, Raed, Jordan, film, movie [/tags]

Captin Abu Raed

I've never left a theatre with a decision to come back and watch it again and I never reviewed a film too. If you are Ammani or more specifically if you are Jabal Ammanie then you will definitely feel connected to this film. If the smell of Jabal Amman & Down town means something to you then you will feel you are one of the crew just as if you are in an out of body experience watching friends and neighbours. Again I'm not a film reviewer, so maybe you should check 360east & Black Iris reviews. [tags] Captin, Abu, Raed, Jordan, film, movie [/tags]

Sweets from the Middle East

Everywhere Magazine - Johanna Stigter - The Middle East is not all about conflict and problems. There is much beauty and culture to be discovered there. The sweets I discovered on my journeys to the Middle East is an experience not to be missed. If you’re on a diet, than a sweet shop in the Middle East is a wicked place to be. Giant round trays of baklava, mini mountains of nut filled goodies oozing in syrup are displayed in sweet shops daily. I was amazed at the sheer quantities on display. Neatly piled stacks almost reaching the ceiling and giant round trays tightly packed with glistening pastries. Families are large in the Middle East and family gatherings can mean 50 people and more at a get together. It’s not unusual to see someone leaving a shop laden with kilos of goodies.

Sweets from the Middle East

Everywhere Magazine - Johanna Stigter - The Middle East is not all about conflict and problems. There is much beauty and culture to be discovered there. The sweets I discovered on my journeys to the Middle East is an experience not to be missed. If you’re on a diet, than a sweet shop in the Middle East is a wicked place to be. Giant round trays of baklava, mini mountains of nut filled goodies oozing in syrup are displayed in sweet shops daily. I was amazed at the sheer quantities on display. Neatly piled stacks almost reaching the ceiling and giant round trays tightly packed with glistening pastries. Families are large in the Middle East and family gatherings can mean 50 people and more at a get together. It’s not unusual to see someone leaving a shop laden with kilos of goodies.
Arabian Business - Continued housing supply shortages and unprecedented price hikes in 2008 will make Dubai’s real estate market the second most expensive in the world, after the West End of London, according to analysts. “Accelerating growth rates have equipped expatriates with the means to rent houses at high rates, and the situation is least likely to be resolved in 2008 as the market is expected to be in short supply of housing units”, HC Securities Brokerage said in its Economy Watch Bulletin. continue reading What about Amman? I have been hunting for office rental and I can confidently assure you that the prices went crazy even in average streets and neighbourhoods, unfurnished apartment which you can get your office registered at legally is about 250 JOD a month and I'm talking about 110 meter and less kind of apartments. Everything counts for the property owner, finishing, painting, neighbourhood, water availability, electricity supply compared to the number of rented off

Spy agency taps into undersea cable

I'm not fan of conspiracies but this one is awesome ;) news.zdnet.com - WASHINGTON--For decades, the National Security Agency did most of its spying by plucking information out of thin air. With a global network of listening stations and satellites, the NSA eavesdropped on phone conversations in Saddam Hussein's bunker, snatched Soviet missile-launch secrets and once caught Brezhnev in his limousine chatting about his mistress. The NSA's task was relatively simple then because most international phone-and-data traffic moved via satellites or microwave towers. The agency sucked up those signals and sorted through them with supercomputers. Few of its eavesdroppers risked life or limb, and those they spied upon were often none the wiser. But today the NSA's snooping capabilities are in jeopardy, undermined by advances in telecommunications technology. Much of the information the agency once gleaned from the airwaves now travels in the form of light beams through fiber-opt

Spy agency taps into undersea cable

I'm not fan of conspiracies but this one is awesome ;) news.zdnet.com - WASHINGTON--For decades, the National Security Agency did most of its spying by plucking information out of thin air. With a global network of listening stations and satellites, the NSA eavesdropped on phone conversations in Saddam Hussein's bunker, snatched Soviet missile-launch secrets and once caught Brezhnev in his limousine chatting about his mistress. The NSA's task was relatively simple then because most international phone-and-data traffic moved via satellites or microwave towers. The agency sucked up those signals and sorted through them with supercomputers. Few of its eavesdroppers risked life or limb, and those they spied upon were often none the wiser. But today the NSA's snooping capabilities are in jeopardy, undermined by advances in telecommunications technology. Much of the information the agency once gleaned from the airwaves now travels in the form of light beams through fiber-opt

City Mall Chaos

Since the snow started to melt Jordanians filled the streets with their cars as if they were in prison or as if we won the World Cup of something and I was one of those frustrated Jordanians of staying home for two days, so I went with some friends to watch Man of the Year at CityMall. First, I managed to avoid three heavy-weight acciedents; it seems people are taking the advise of not going out with their unequipped two-wheel cars on personal level and it seems they mark it as a humiliating alert to their high pride the result was seeing all people out in the street as if the snow attacked their houses and now they have to stay out even with those really really small cars. People were nervous in a way I never seen before and some people were experimenting skiing with their cars. Anyway, when we were on the parking queue (the parking were over loaded) leaving the Mall, everything was calm, people were patient, you know the ideal description of life and people? until I turned back to

City Mall Chaos

Since the snow started to melt Jordanians filled the streets with their cars as if they were in prison or as if we won the World Cup of something and I was one of those frustrated Jordanians of staying home for two days, so I went with some friends to watch Man of the Year at CityMall. First, I managed to avoid three heavy-weight acciedents; it seems people are taking the advise of not going out with their unequipped two-wheel cars on personal level and it seems they mark it as a humiliating alert to their high pride the result was seeing all people out in the street as if the snow attacked their houses and now they have to stay out even with those really really small cars. People were nervous in a way I never seen before and some people were experimenting skiing with their cars. Anyway, when we were on the parking queue (the parking were over loaded) leaving the Mall, everything was calm, people were patient, you know the ideal description of life and people? until I turned back to

Dubai’s traffic crisis

In Dubai they have tried almost all possible solution to solve the traffic problem, solutions that you would not even dream about in your city unless you are really a dreamer and the conclusion is building more roads wont solve it. They have Dubai Metro under construction now, a tram system, train network, water taxi service and even thinking of helicopter service; with an investment of 95 Billion AED. Reading some facts and statistics about Dubai been my interest in the last couple of weeks and the more I read and more I pause with WOW. [tags] water taxi service, helicopter service, train network, traffic problem, tram system, problem solutions, possible solution, dubai, dreamer, metro, conclusion, statistics, UAE [/tags]

Dubai’s traffic crisis

In Dubai they have tried almost all possible solution to solve the traffic problem, solutions that you would not even dream about in your city unless you are really a dreamer and the conclusion is building more roads wont solve it. They have Dubai Metro under construction now, a tram system, train network, water taxi service and even thinking of helicopter service; with an investment of 95 Billion AED. Reading some facts and statistics about Dubai been my interest in the last couple of weeks and the more I read and more I pause with WOW. [tags] water taxi service, helicopter service, train network, traffic problem, tram system, problem solutions, possible solution, dubai, dreamer, metro, conclusion, statistics, UAE [/tags]

And the best snow man is.....

This Snowman and little man were in Al-Abdali Station. [tags] amman, jordan, snow, man [/tags]

And the best snow man is.....

This Snowman and little man were in Al-Abdali Station. [tags] amman, jordan, snow, man [/tags]

Snow Attack - 4

The Sad & The beaten snow man I'm not alone The lake of 7aretna

Snow Attack - 4

The Sad & The beaten snow man I'm not alone The lake of 7aretna