Archive for August, 2005

Gun-full Celebrations

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

I’be been seeing this sign for sometime now, and I wanted to take a picture and share it (click to see larger):

Translation: The “Weapon Corner” Shop (GunShop) would like to Congradulate all the University Graduates, and Those who passed Tawjihi and Shamel (two state-run exams for high school)
Now I am glad that this summer people […]

Blogs and Jordan Planet in Alghad

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

I was surprised to see an article about blogs, mentioning Jordan Planet in Al-Ghad when I woke up today. My father was reading it when I saw it. Ammar Ibrahim was interviewed about it by the newspaper. Way to go Ammar :)

Jordan Planet: Happy Birthday

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Today marks 1 year since Jordan Planet started. In 18th August 2004 I registered the domain jordanplanet.net. And 2 days later, I got FREE hosting from EasyHTTP that Jad own. And in August 21st, the site was up with only a couple of bloggers.

Aqaba Bombing

Friday, August 19th, 2005

I woke up today to the news about bombing in Aqaba, some news channels say it is 1 explosion, other say 3, some say it was targeted at an American ship in the port, while I heard some say that it was near the city, I heard that at least one Jordanian was killed from […]

Crazy week

Friday, August 12th, 2005

I’m home again, it was a very wild and crazy week for me, and I loved it. Not everything went as we planned it, but it was fine anyway. I spend 2 nights in Berlin at my cousin’s, and I loved the city. It had this mixture of modern and old that I adore in […]

German Tour

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Well, Wikimania is over.. It was all just perfect, everything was great about it in a way that I didn’t expect. In an hour I will be starting a tour in Germany with my new friend Isaac Mao to the southern part of Germany. First we are heading to Baden-Baden where we plan to enjoy […]

In 20 miuntes

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

In 20 minutes I will be giving a presentation in the Wikimania about reasons of the slow development of Arabic Wikipedia. Now although this is not the first time I give a presentation, this time I am a little nervous. The hall we are giving the presentations in is large, and the number of people […]

Here in the Wikimania

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

Well.. Thanks to the people from the OSI, I made it to the Wikimania. One major thing about being here is meeting the people behind the nicknames that I knew for the last 2 years in Wikipedia. Meeting Elien, Jimbo, Danny, Anthere, SJ and others were part of the reason I am here, and I […]