Archive for December, 2005

Less Bloody Eid

Friday, December 30th, 2005

This morning I read an article in Al-Ghad (Arabic) about sacrifices made for the Adha Eid, and the hygiene problems and the scenery associated with it in the city of Amman. Living in Marj Al-Hamam made me associate the Adha Eid with the bad smell and blood on the street (sheep blood) that I saw […]

JP2Go (JP on Mobile)

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

First I thought I was the only one obsessed with Jordan Planet, and check the site from his mobile while away from a PC. Then I learned that Jameed tries to check it from his mobile during his long hours in the lab, and last week, Laith told me that he checks RSS feeds from […]

10000 articles in the Arabic Wikipedia

Monday, December 26th, 2005

The Arabic Wikipedia had reached few days ago, which is a pretty significant event as Arabic wikipedia now joins another 35 wikipedias in different languages that are over 10,000 article in size. Now the Arabic Wikipedia had gone a long way since it started less than 2 years ago, and still have a much longer […]

QWERTY anyone ?

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

For those of us who are using a US or Arabic keyboard, you will notice the letters QWERTY in the top row of letters in your keyboard. That makes your keyboard called QWERTY keyboard. Now there are attempts to introduce a a new keyboard system that arranges the keys ABCD instead of QWERTY.
Now here is […]

JP Prediction for 2006

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

I started a thread in Jordan Planet forum (click to follow) about the predictions of 2006 for Jordan Planet, please share your thoughts if you have any.

Information hunting at the Ministry of Trade

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Yesterday I was at the Ministry of Trade to query about starting a non-profit establishment or company, for one of the organizations/projects I am involved in. Entering the ministry was a nice shock, it was my first time there. The design is very customer-service oriented, around 50 counters, with LED displays above each stating the […]

Fa3el Khair

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

As I am going to the dead sea today to attend the WCF, a car from the opposite direction gave me a headlight flash, right at the middle of noon.. so it was a signal of some kind. I thought maybe he’s warning me of something, but I didn’t realise directly what it is. Then […]

World Culture Forum Blog

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

Jordan will be hosting the second edition of the World Culture Forum next week, from 4th-7th of December. The event’s program and speakers list is extraordinary, which attracted me to the event since I knew about it, and so I registered to attend it. The speaker list is so full of key and known speakers, […]