Is Skype really blocked in Egypt!?
This morning, a call placed to Vodafone’s customer service indicated that Telecom Egypt is going to block Skype in Egypt, and that it’s out of their hands.
Tea With Omar Sharif
The Jerusalem Report
March 29, 2010
When I read that Egypt’s Journalist Union had punished two senior Egyptian editors – one a member of the country’s ruling party and the other an expert on Jewish affairs for violating its ban on contacts with Israel, I wondered if Omar Sharif ever thinks of me.
My nemesis wasn’t the once-heartthrob Egyptian actor but a State Security officer in Cairo whose nom de guerre was Omar Sharif and who, for six months in 1999, tormented me for moving to Jerusalem as a correspondent for Reuters. There is no law that bans Egyptians from visiting Israel but everyone knows that once you do, State Security will invite you over for “a cup of tea” – i.e., an interrogation. read more »
Is it strange…
…that I like using bathrooms for the disabled?
That I like to peel my scabs?
That I tear up when I poo? read more »
What's on your mind :)
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668) No Hard Feelings -Eps.3- Men Buttons!
Back to Engy's query about men and buttons & how may they say something they don't mean or do...!Quoting the quote-hater
In the software field, we study a nifty concept named ‘a deadlock’. A deadlock takes place when two events, mutually dependent, and in a rare scenario, wait for each other. They create a cycle that stops moving, because both can’t take the next step without the other taking theirs.
I could have quoted the whole post, but that is what google reader is for! read more »
Random Thoughts – Part 3
Some wholeheartedly believe in the saying: “Love is never enough”, no one wonders: “What is?!”. As if we need something to be enough on its own, which is just wrong. And because we always bounce back and forth between extremes, we stop loving entirely, because .. lol .. it’s never enough! We turn into adamant stagnant human beings who give themselves the satisfaction of being different and out of the circle.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation – Oscar Wilde read more »
Ask!
It’s a cool service.
Go HERE and ask me anything anonymously, and I will answer :D
[P.S. I know this can be done in a blog post with anonymous comments, but society.me is kinda cool!] read more »
On the Nature of Human Beings
3 Signs of Project Mis-Management
If you are managing a project, be careful not to fall into one of the following pitfalls: read more »
The Sad State of Mubarak's Egypt (1): Support Mohamed ElBaradei for President?
In your face welcome by Israel is an opportunity for the U.S. to define a firm stance that reflects U.S. interests
"The "quartet" of Middle East peace mediators -- the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia -- on Friday issued its own condemnation of the settlement plan and said it would assess the situation at a previously scheduled meeting in Moscow next week.
""The Quartet has agreed to closely monitor developments in Jerusalem and to keep under consideration additional steps that may be required to address the situation on the ground," the group said in a statement, without providing further details." read more »
setchi el 7abayeb ya 7abiba…tara ra
Macbook Pro External Display
I own a macbook for 2 years now and only a few months ago I needed to connect my Macbook to an external display “only”, meaning that I want to close the laptop lid and work on a huge external display with an external keyboard and mouse to save the screen and to enjoy everything in a one big screen (I love dual-head too but I hate it when one screen is much bigger that the other).
So, for quite sometime I thought that this is not possible, but it turned out to be possible and pretty easy to do.
Now to the important part 
You MUST connect all of the following things first; read more »
What is your president reading?
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Staying young..
You don’t stay young by dieting and exercising, but rather by learning and laughing. The first option, makes you look young. But the second one, keeps your heart young. read more »
Lurve
Sucky, strange, weird day.
So I’ve loved two guys in my life. Neither relationship worked out. One was a case of unrequited love on my part (and to make things lurvely he married one of my best friends) and the other was a case of me outgrowing him. read more »
The night the Egyptian Cultural Scene was slapped on the face
مش انا طلعت جاسوس؟
موقف عجيب ، واحد بعاتلي ميل بقوللي اني جاسوس و قعد يشتم فيا – خليني اوريكوا الميل الاول read more »
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The evolution of God
Early humans considered everything around them as gods: rain, fire, the sun, the moon, animals, you name it. As humans came to understand, one by one, each of these things, the awe they originally felt towards them faded, because understanding is grasping, almost controlling.
All material things thus lost their perceived god-like quality. But still, the **designs** of these things were beyond human understanding: rain, for example, was given by a god to whom one should show reverence in order to obtain rain. When science explained rain, we stopped rain-dancing.
Giornate nere per i trasporti italiani. No, non mi sto riferendo agli scioperi ...
E ancora:
Random Thoughts – Part 2
Back in KSA, I used to have those mornings when you wake up to find your parents talking very mysteriously on breakfast. Ominous, their voice tones make you curious, so you crawl your way to the table, afraid of the usual “this stuff is for grown ups, give me and your dad some privacy, Ibraheem”, to find them speaking about how X is not happy with her husband. How X calls Mom constantly to complain, and that Dad’s next mission was to act as counselor to save their marriage. How Y is sick and needs care, and that Z had a very noticeable belligerence to M in the latest gathering of whatever. read more »
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