Lessons We Learned From H4ck3rZ Online Systems
We have been using forums and CMS systems for long time now to run all CAT websites on the internet starting from the ancient CATReloadedt website that was based on Drupal and ending to this amazing and extensible system “H4ck3rZ Network” that’s based on Buddypress and we have faced hunderds of problems that we didn’t really spend the right amount of efforts to learn from and to solve. read more »
More on Egypt’s military shopping frenzy
Following up on the recent post about Egypt’s recent military procurement, here’s a phenomenally stupid, or just disingenuous, article from the Jerusalem Post (yes what else would you expect):
In a sign of mounting concern about Teheran’s missile capability, the Egyptian military recently expressed interest in purchasing the Russian-made, advanced S-300 and S-400 air defense systems. read more »
Amnesty International Report on¨ Operation Cast Lead¨
In the report, Amnesty accuses both the Israeli Army and Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups of war crimes.
July!
My last day at this job is the 21st of July. Can you believe is July already?! I love you, every single one of you. Every person who reads this, and I do hope you take this personally. Because I love you. I do. I love how the feel better comments have actually made me feel better. That each comment is making me smile. Every time I read one, I smile. Because I take them personally. And believe in their sincerity
Thank you for being my smile-generators! Instant happiness is priceless.
My Memories of the King
- I remember googleing his different looks trying to find out how it changed - i guess i yahoo-ed it, coz Google wasn't there at the time. I might have even used Lycos or webcrawler.
Has former Iranian President Muhammad Khatami found his voice?
In recent weeks, he has spoken out with unaccustomed candor, as the following statement illustrates:
"If you want to calm the atmosphere, why are you carrying out mass arrests? Oppressing people will not help end the protests," Khatami said. read more »
The New Crayons
One of my happiest and most vivid childhood memories was the annual back to school shopping trip. Browsing the aisles for the perfect pencil case, pencils and notebooks was just my sort of heaven when I was a child (it still is actually, I am always on cloud 9 just by looking at the rows of pens at any store). My mom would mel read more »
Like Scooby Doo, without the fun or the flares
Innit funny how certain films are able to strip previously decent actors of all and any talent? Like paint-stripper, whooosh. Gone. I spent Tuesday night trying to find where the director of the Suspect might have hidden Amr Waked and Bassem Samra's talent, unsuccessfully.
Police repression of journalists in Tanta
Most bizarre website ever
Someone please except this website to me: Michael Jackson Family. Its address is even more mysterious: http://michaeljacksonestate.blogspot.com/
This is its about blurb:
My name is Princess Zaynab bint Fahd bin Khalid al-Saud. My father is popularly known as Satan the Devil. I am from Saudi Arabia and I am married to the American Superstar Singer Michael Jackson as Nona Paris Lola Ankhesenamun Jackson.
Of course, it’s one of those sites that starts playing music as it loads. In other words, not work safe.
Il DDL sicurezza diventa legge in Italia.
Ban the Burqa
By Mona Eltahawy
International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK — I am a Muslim, I am a feminist and I detest the full-body veil, known as a niqab or burqa. It erases women from society and has nothing to do with Islam but everything to do with the hatred for women at the heart of the extremist ideology that preaches it.
We must not sacrifice women at the altar of political correctness or in the name of fighting a growingly powerful right wing that Muslims face in countries where they live as a minority. read more »
Change in Plans
Paul Bowles, from “The Sheltering Sky” to “A Life Full of Holes”
I was out to dinner with some friends last year and two of them had just seen Bertolucci’s film adaptation of Paul Bowles’ “The Sheltering Sky.” They were having a debate over whether it was Orientalist or not. I haven’t seen the film, but I’d read the first half of the novel and their discussion made me pick it up again and finish it.
Imagine a little editing
As published"
"There are more than 120 settlements in the occupied West Bank that are legal under Israeli law but not internationally. The Fourth Geneva Convention, which Israel ratified in 1951, forbids an occupying power to transfer 'parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies,' but Israel disputes that this provision applies to settlements. Israel seized the West Bank and other territories in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war."
Egypt: 306 Shias arrested
Unverified – al-Mesryoon and translation via Mideastwire: read more »
Dissent, repression and Iran's June election
Office Bonanza
In the meantime, let me tell you about the office party we had in my honor today. I:
It’s really funny .. (warning: a lame post)
Links for 06.30.09 to 07.01.09
Arab Techies in Business | More Arab geekery.
Arab Techies | Cool Arabic tech/web projects.
Love in KSA « Saudiwoman’s Weblog | On the importance of women's reputation in Saudi.
"Politics, culture, and dissident:" New study maps out trends in Arab blogosphere | Menassat | Cool map of the Arab blogosphere, divided by country, language, and political trends. read more »
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