Archive for the 'Jordan' Category
Friday, October 13th, 2006
I noticed it yesterday, and it is confirmed now (Thanks Ahmad), the TRC (Telecommunications Regulatory Commission) reversed their bad decision of blocking Skype. It seems that Skype is no longer a security threat.
اللهم احفظ اردننا سالما من كل شر ومكروه وسكايب وياهو وجوجل وماسينجر و……
God keep our Jordan safe from any Harm, or Evil, or […]
Categories: Jordan, Internet & Technology, News & Politics
Comments: 11 Comments
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
A coworker informed me today that few days ago, the site of Skype (http://www.skype.com ) is no longer accessible from Jordan. It seems that they are following the steps of countries that live in the dark ages when it comes to Internet. To confirm that you don’t have a “Network Error” or that the site […]
Categories: Jordan, Internet & Technology
Comments: 24 Comments
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
OK, I had it, I can’t stand this anymore, and I got to spill it out. I love my Macbook Pro, and I can’t imagine how I was computing before it. But, the level and quality of support an Apple user get in Jordan is basically, the worst anyone can get.
I bought my Makbook Pro […]
Categories: Apple, Jordan, Internet & Technology
Comments: 16 Comments
Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Is it just me, or there is a big spike in begging in the streets of Amman ? I just took 3 minutes walk, from office, to super market, back to the office, and I was stopped and interrupted by: One Young Man who need 1JD to get back to Gwaismeh (Meskeen, Magtoo3, and can […]
Categories: Jordan, News & Politics
Comments: 9 Comments
Monday, May 29th, 2006
I was reading a story in the Independent about an investigation that is taking place in USA by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) about having news stations air “fake news reports” about the success of war in Iraq, that was tailored by Bush adminstration, and corporates that have businesses in Iraq.
I am not sure why […]
Categories: Jordan, News & Politics
Comments: 3 Comments
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
It seems that as Nader got cured from his Draft-but-not-publish syndrome, I caught it up. I discovered that my latest post was more than a month ago, and what’s worse, it was about IE7 :) Now, since then I wrote many drafts for posts, about several topics: Google Arabic translation, how excited I am about […]
Categories: Apple, Blogging, Jordan Planet, About Me
Comments: 7 Comments
Sunday, March 26th, 2006
A couple of weeks ago, we got a very interesting email from the “Contact Us” in Jordan Planet site:
Topic : RSS Feed issue with IE7
Message : I’m a Program Manager for RSS on the Internet Explorer team. I’m contacting you because we have received a report that your website’s RSS feed is not compatible with […]
Categories: Blogging, Jordan Planet, Internet & Technology, OSS & Linux
Comments: 9 Comments
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
Every now and then, when I get into a Taxi, and ask them to head to Marj Al-Hamam (7km outside Amman, where I live) I get a “Do you know how to reach it, because I don’t”.. now I am used to being asked that every now and then.. But today, for the first time, […]
Categories: Jordan
Comments: 6 Comments
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
This morning I heard an interesting report in BBC Arabic about a news report saying that the Chairman of Jordan Television (Warning: An annoying site with parts of it working with a “DLS Connection” as mentioned in the Arabic section) resigned yesterday, and along with him a number of board members resigned as well.
What […]
Categories: Jordan, News & Politics
Comments: 5 Comments
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
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. […]
Categories: About Me, Jordan
Comments: 12 Comments
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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 […]
Categories: Jordan Planet, About Me, News & Politics
Comments: 4 Comments
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Since I learned about Google Local now covering in Amman, I started to look and check places. It is very semilar to Google Earth, except that I didn’t really get to use Google Earth since there is no Linux version of it. Anyhow I compiled a list of buildings, sights, and places in Amman, with […]
Categories: Jordan, Internet & Technology
Comments: 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
As soon as I read the recent google post about their Local service, I rushed to try it. with so much ease, I found Amman fully covered in detail, while it did not before. Google had updated their Google Local service with the most recent images, and detail level, as the application Google Earth. Now […]
Categories: Jordan, Internet & Technology
Comments: 2 Comments
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
First, Visit this. Now this had been around for some time, some of you may had seen it. Problem is that a number of JP bloggers use software or service that does not support categorization (Yes, I am talking about Blogger). Some of the tags you see in that page are only used by one […]
Categories: Blogging, Jordan Planet
Comments: 4 Comments
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 […]
Categories: About Me, Jordan
Comments: 9 Comments