Archive for November, 2007
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Hi, I have moved now from wordpress.com to self hosted wordpress, I hosted my blog on hostgator, my new address is http://www.ibrahimo.com, please adjust your bookmarks. After sometime this blog on wordpress.com will be deleted and the only way to access it will be through http://www.ibrahimo.com
Why no new posts?!
Well since around a week now I became less active in the blog because I was shocked when I found out that blogs on wordpress.com don’t really have full control, so to advance my blog I have to get my own hosting, and that what I am doing now, it still going to take couple of days to set things up the way i want.
In the mean time i would be happy to get your feedback on which is the best hosting companies for blogs. I am still bouncing between bluehost and lunarpages.
Breaking News: Bridge collapses in Dubai marina
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I heard people talking about a bridge under construction in dubai that collapsed just few minutes ago. The only news website that talked about this is the BBC. The only known thing until now is that 7 workers died and 15 are injured.
Google Hot Trends for the 6th of November 2007
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1. oregon election results
2. gormagon
3. new jersey election results
4. cnn.com/nancygrace
5. demore barnes
6. cuyahoga county board of elections
7. cbs.com
8. michael michele
9. iowa city 21 ordinance
10. virginia election results 2007
11. virginia state board of elections
12. daily iowan
13. cherry pit
14. washington state election results
15. ulster county election results
16. model behavior
17. national children s museum
18. cnn.com/nancy grace
19. jenkem
20. cioppino
21. robert a. singer
22. the russians are coming
23. osmond
24. news12.com
25. wcyb
26. steve beshear
27. cbs.com ncis
28. rebecca de mornay
29. objektophil
30. www.cbs.com
31. ohio state basketball
32. greg ballard
33. pyrrhus
34. johnson county auditor
35. osmond family
36. lou knickerbocker
37. scorpion king
38. stuart scott
39. miller fisher
40. real housewives of orange county
41. 2008 mustang bullitt
42. not larry sabato
43. on golden pond
44. exploding comet
45. voting results
46. christa pike
47. marie osmond father
48. jaidon codrington
49. andrea dromm
50. super brain yoga
51. wtol
52. carlton pearson
53. njn
54. impeach cheney
55. mississippi elections
56. rate my professor
57. luke ravenstahl
58. central michigan football
59. schattauer
60. victoria schattauer
61. kwwl
62. mermaid syndrome
63. gulf of tonkin
64. riverside county registrar of voters
65. harmonica hero
66. kara keough
67. roc boys video
68. george osmond
69. michael nutter
70. findlay
71. cbs.com/ncis
72. kentucky elections
73. flip camera
74. superbrain yoga
75. iowa city election results
76. wtol.com
77. 8 limbed girl
78. wlbt
79. weeds season 3 episode 13
80. cbs ncis
81. utah elections
82. wdam
83. wdbj7
84. dancing with the stars week 7 results
85. kentucky governor
86. election returns
87. haley barbour
88. girl with eight limbs
89. jeana keough
90. sakio bika
91. derrick rose
92. ernie fletcher
93. call of duty 4 cheats
94. capital news 9
95. ralph becker
96. salt lake county clerk
97. larry johnson
98. goshen cheerleader
99. virginia senate
100. osmond death
The real reason why Amr Adib didnt show up ?!
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Although am not an Egyptian but I still watch the daily talk-show “Al-Qahira Alyawm” (Cairo Today) on ORBIT. To be honest I watch it most of the time because I like the way Amr Adeeb presents the show, where he talks like any normal person in the street, doe not use difficult Arabic words and doesn’t try to showoff how sophisticated he is, Although he is really a good journalist and if he wanted to do it that way he easily can.
On Saturday 3rd of November 2007, we were shocked to realize that Amr Adib was not presenting and that Khairy Ramadan and the beautiful Rania Farid Shawqy were going to co-host the show for today and Kairy announced that Amr Adib is out of the country and that he will be back tomorrow (Sunday 4th of November 2007). But still the next day Amr didn’t appeare and Kairy co-hosted the show with Ahmed Mousa and re-announced that Amr is out of the country and that he will be back the next day (Monday 5th of November 2007).
I started wondering if Amr Adib actually got fired or was eliminated or thousands of other possibilities, because I remember that Nirvana Idris who left the show couple of years ago, Amr Adib came on for several episodes and he gave different reasons every-time why she is not there with him, in the end after few days he announced that she left the show. So I got that exact feeling, but he showed up yesterday 5th of November and hosted the show.
So what was the reason for not showing up the first 2 days of this week?, If you watch the show from start to the end of each episode you would realize that those 2 episodes had important guests from “The Egyptian National Democratic Party” (El7ezb Elwatany), and as we know Amr Adib is outspoken and does not care what is the rank of the person he is interviewing, he asks the questions without caring what the result would be. So maybe those guests demanded that the only way they would be in the show if Amr Adib does not host those 2 episodes.
This is just my own understanding to what really happened.
Quickly Navigate Between Tabs (FireFox Addon)
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Actually the shortcuts are already available from FireFox, the only thing this add-on really does is that it show the tab number so you can easily know which tab is which.
To install the add-on Click Here.
PICURLS: See what photo’s the world is seeing… !!
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As you know there is a number of social news/bookmarking websites such as Reddit, Digg, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. People share articles, websites, photos, videos and so on. Digg already announced that they will be having a special section only for images but it still didnt happen.
Here comes PICURLS, basically this website pulls all the top photos of the day from Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Flickr, Simpy, Furl, Boing Boing and Wired. You can also subscribe to the RSS feeds for the pictures from each website or from all of the websites.
But PICURLS still have space for improvement, the 2 main drawbacks that i can see is that there is no community, none of the images has any comments, at least for the past few days, all what i can see is the number “0” beside each image. The second thing is that when you click on the link it sends you to the source not the page of the website such as Digg and Reddit, i am not if this being done out of fear that maybe Digg or Reddit wont allow this to happen.
Anyway, in general this is a very nice website, and one day it could become something if it kept on developing.
CL: Olympiakos Vs. Real Madrid (Preview)
Real Madrid will be playing their 4th match in the Champions League Group C, nicely standing top of the table with 7 points, while Olympiakos is playing at home and is 2nd place with 4 points.
As we can recollect, Robinho played a very important role in the last match which ended 4-2 for Real Madrid, the match was sensational really made us all be on edge. Real Madrid players showed their real spirit in that match and showed how much they want to win this season.
One weird observation is that Real Madrid lost a match before meeting Olympiakos, in the first match they lost 2-1 to Espanyol and now they just got a 2-0 loss against Sevilla. But i still expect Real Madrid to focus in this match and just put whatever past wins and losses aside.
Wingers Arjen Robben and Gonzalo Higuaín and the backup goal keeper Jerzy Dudek are still injured but the central defender Pepe and midfielder Wesley Sneijder are back and going to be traveling with their team mates but not sure if any of them would be able to play full 90 minutes.
Olympiakos will be missing injured defender Paraskevas Antzas and Vassilis Torossidis who was sent off in the previous match. Michal Zewlakow is back from injury and might feature in the match, although i seriously doubt he could play a full match.
My eyes will be locked on 3 main players today, ofcourse Robinho especially after his great show against Olympiakos although he wasn’t able to do much against Sevilla in the Spanish league but still its going to be different here. Another Real Madrid player to watch would be Wesley Sneijder that is if he played any part in the game. From Olympiakos the amazing midfielder Predrag Djordjevic who is 35 years old and plays as if he is 25 amazing speed and dribbling.
Real Madrid expected formation (4-1-3-2): Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Metzelder, Cannavaro, Marcelo, Heinze, Diarra, Sneijder, Guti, Robinho – Raúl, van Nistelrooy
Olympiakos expected formation (4-5-1): Nikopolidis, Patsatzoglou, Julio Cesar, Zewlakow, Bravo, Archubi, Ledesma, Djordjevic, Stoltidis, Galleti, LuaLua
I expect a win for Real Madrid, maybe 2-1, in the worst situations i would expect a draw 1-1 or 2-2. But i believe we will win tonight.
Real or Graphics ?!
While surfing the net I found a challenge created by Autodesk, basically they give you a bunch of photos and you have to decide which is real and which is computer graphics.
At first I thought it would be simple, but I got only 6 out of 10 right, so Its not as easy as you might think, just go and see how many will you get right.
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