Isam Bayazidi’s Blog

Since I first realized that Jordan Planet will be more than an automated self-run aggregation site (translation?), I was sure that I don’t want it to me a one man show. I have an experience with myself when it comes to such things. I could just suddenly loose interest, without a warning, and start to pull out. Although I can’t see this happening with Jordan Planet, I wanted to make sure that it won’t effect JP even if it happens.

Natasha had been helping and acting as a partner with me on Jordan planet for the last 10 months. And the more success JP had, the more people stepped up, and volunteered time and effort into this project. Roba and Iyas had a major role in the site redesign last august, and along with Mariam and Lina, they all are taking care of important content in the site, and providing valuable feedback and initiatives for the project.

And so, without really knowing or planing, a “Team” of volunteers is now taking care of the project’s direction and well being. Iyas, Lina, Natasha, Mariam, Roba and myself are what you could call “Jordan Planet Staff”. I’m really glad and happy for their involvement, and I have to promise them that Jordan planet will stay a non-profit project, with the aim of opening a window to Jordan through blogs, and promoting blogs and bloggers from Jordan.

I ofcourse can’t forget the efforts and help that many other bloggers had been, and continue to provide for Jordan Planet. Linda who provided great help in processing applications to join Jordan Planet, Ammar who gives a hand and an opinion when he is not busy being late on JP meetings :p, and ofcourse Ahmad who’s expert opinion had and will always be of great effect in Jordan Planet.

<rude>PS. Please, no more comments saying “you are doing great isam” or “Thank You”. You can help by giving suggestions or feedback</rude>

Internet & Technology, Jordan Planet

A very interesting post by Khalaf pointed out that the National Agenda Committee will post the Agenda document online for feedback, now that’s a first, and something that I would salute. It basically means that the committee (government) thinks that the internet is a good medium to collect feedback about the document. Now I am not sure that I will read the full document, or post my feedback on it, but I am really happy for such move. I wonder who’s really behind it, and the reasons for it.

Internet & Technology, Jordan, News & Politics

I was not really surprised when I read today’s Alghad headline about the the diesel produced by the Jordan Petroleum Refinery (which is having a monopoly of petroleum fuel until 2008) against the Jordanian standards for diesel. The Jordanian standards says that a 1KG of diesel should have no more than 350 milligram of Sulfur, while Jordanian diesel have 10,000-11,000 milligrams (no wonder diesel vehicles in Jordan are known to have extremely black smoke). I kind never had doubts that the Jordanian standards are the problems, problem is always in implementing those standards. Now the funny/sad part is that they are given until 2008 to fix that error, while the refinery officials said that they are unable to comply with the standards because of the high costs of having extra filters.

Recently, diesel had a price hike of around 25%.. only if a small part of that is given to the refinery to have those filters and allow us to have some cleaner air. I guess that our lungs does not have a high priority.

Jordan, News & Politics

Sony Ericsson announced their latest P990 phone, which comes as a successor to the P800, P900, and P910 mobiles. Major features include WiFi support, 2MP camera, 3G support (thus the dual camera for video calls), FM Radio with RDS, and it comes with Symbian 9.1 with UIQ 3 interface, and Opera 8 with Macromedia Flash lite.

Now as a very happy customer and owner of a P910, I am very much looking forward the P990 with is supposed to be released in the first quarter of 2006. So I better start saving :)

Links

• Unofficial Sony Ericsson Club, P990 page
• Official Product Page

Mobile & Handhelds

Well, since I did my RHCE exam last Saturday I had been waiting impatiently for the results. Although I was somehow sure I would get it anyway, it is only official, and for sure, when they say it. I had to wait for 2 days until the results come out, as they are issued from USA, and so, it had to wait until Monday.

Today when I checked my email at 4:00pm, I saw an email from Red Hat Certification Central titled “Certification Lab Exam results”. I wasn’t sure I wanted to open it right away, so I went to the bathroom first.. when back, I opened it, and I passed :) I am an RHCE now. Although the mark I got was a little less than I expected, but who cares.

So, what’s next for me, I wonder now. I think that as this year I got my dream mobile and did the certification I wanted to do for the last 18 months, I think that I should get my dream laptop. When done with my dream list, I think I will compile a new, more challenging list, raise the limits, and go ahead again.

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