I am currently testing Google Pages which is yet a new beta service from Google.. What I saw is a Online Frontpage, with a publishing ability to your own space at http://googlepages.com. I know about it from Matt Cutt’s blog. I didn’t try before web-based web-publishging sites.. I am sure that there are some hosting companies that provide similar service. But probably Google did it in a unique googlly way. Try it out, and tell me what you think.
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It’s 7:30am, I woke up 30 minutes ago to prepare to work, found it is snowing hard. So we had to do it.. Yes we do.. We opened on Jordan Television to see what they are saying and playing. It is part of snow traditions. It seems that the people in Jordan Television were ready. They had the regular snow program prepared:
- Moved the program to be transmitted from the TV Garden (Aka حديقة التلفزيون)
- Had the presenters prepared to hit each other, and have the camera man hit them with snow (خفة دم أردنية)
- Started to play the pop Snow songs (ثلج وبرد (وائل كفوري) ، ثلج ثلج (فيروز), إلخ)
- Have a Lt. on the line to give is main roads status.
- Have a weatherman on the line to keep telling us the same thing every 30 minutes.
- I suspect that they will show us one of the plays they have on the Shelve labeled “Snow and things” in the archive. Probably سك على بناتك or العيال كبرت.
Now all what you see above are symprtoms to a day off. No one said it is off, but once we see the TV staff hitting with each other with snow in the TV garden we can tell that that’s it. Once the Prime Minister see this on TV he must declare the day off to make us watch Jordan TV.
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The last weeks had been crazy for me. During Eid, I got a job offer to join a company here in Amman, so I dropped my plans to accept an offer I got in Dubai in favour of staying in Amman. Some of my friends called me “habeeleh” or something for turning down a very good offer from Dubai, but for me, nothing beats waking up to a nice weather, no AC noise, walking outside to get the newspaper, no humidity, reading it, then heading to work where the most lengthy traffic Jam is 3-5 minutes (I’ve head stories about traffic in Dubai, No thank you, not interested).
The last month had been crazy for JP as well. We had been almost holding the voting process to add new blogs, reason is that we are currently discussing the voting, and proposing other ways than voting to have blogs added. We currently have a loong list of blogs that are to be added or decided on. Don’t worry, everything is kept in a record, once we decide on the voting process, it will move on. No need to resubmit your blog.
I had been as well following the stupid cartoons thing, I think that the issue had been greatly oversized when it was not needed. A cartoon that was printed in a local daily newspaper now is printed in newspapers all over the world, even here in Amman. It seems to me that the people were glad to find the peaceful nation of Denmark and Norway to exercise their anger on them, because the same can’t be done on other governments, or own governments, so they targetted anger toward the lands of Lego, Happy Cows, and Trolls.
I will try to blog more often from now on, and keep you and myself on what’s on my mind. Later
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