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And On The Brighter Side 2007-09-10 08:52:00 Most of you must've heard about Husain and how he was stuck in the middle of Amman trying to search for his father with very little to think about. In the mean time, his father was literally dying in a hospital, where his medication and food wasn't given to him and the reception denied that the man was inside thier hospital. Read more.If you haven't read the follow up on the story of Husain, then you're missing alot. After the publish of Husain's story, many bloggers decided to post his story on thier blog. This then spread to the local media, and even to the newly assigned health priminister, Dr. Salah Al Mawajdeh. He then assigned a investigation team to the case.His father is now in a different, much better hospital - JU Hospital. He is recovering much better than he was in the goverment hospital, where he would've died if he hadn't been transfered. This is a great breakthough to Jordan, and - even though I don't expect it - maybe things will change after this. Be sure to re
Some Dabshaat (I) 2007-09-08 11:36:00 Conversations In Men's CubiclesI was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the otherstall saying: "Hi, how are you?"I = Me, M = Man In Other CubicleI: "Doin' just fine!"M:"So what are you up to?"I: "Uhhh, I'm like you, just traveling!"M: "Can I come over?"I: "No... I'm a little busy right now!"Then I hear the guy say nervously..."Listen, I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the other stall who keeps answering all my questions!"The Advantage of being an ArabAn old Arab lived close to New York City for more than 40 years. One day, he decided that he would love to plant potatoes and herbs in his garden, but he knew he was alone and too old and weak.His son was in college in Paris, so the old man sent him an e-mail explaining the problem: ” Beloved son, I am very sad, because I can’t plant potatoes in my garden. I am sure, if only you were here, that you would help me and dig up the garden for me. I love you, your father .”The following day, the old man re
Pirate Everything In Jordan 2007-09-06 09:20:00 Getting a pirate copy is easier than you thought. In London, you have those Chinese men with huge bags. They wait around malls, shops, they lurk around busy streets, even around cinemas. They don’t need to advertise or promote their business. No policemen are around, so the coast is clear. People gather round, and – like selling drugs – they open their bags and present their goods. Pirate
copied DVD’s, wrapped in plastic bags and a badly made cover. Even though they have the worst quality films, everyone buys takes out their five pounds and buys a DVD or two. To the buyers, they find it better to bring the family and their friends round their home made cinema and watch their movie. Either that, or you pay five pounds to watch it in the cinema – by yourself. The quality has no match, one is great, and the other one is fuzzy, filled with shadows of people going to the toilet, and the coughs and laughs of the others in the cinema. The picture usually is off centered, and as so Read more:Everything
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Goverment Hospitals... 2007-09-04 07:59:00 So much for Prince Hamza hospital, I feel sorry for Husain.Also read this interesting post on the topic by Bilal.For a translated to arabic version by M Kilany, click here.And, how you can spread the word, by 7aki Fadi.
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Got Your Wallet? 2007-09-03 12:58:00 Now this will never happen in Jordan.The UK's big five mobile phone firms have switched on a payment system that turns handsets into digital wallets. Called PayForIt, the scheme is designed for those buying goods and services with a value of up to £10. The industry hopes it will be used to pay for ringtones, train tickets, parking fees and eventually as a payment system on web shops and sites. Any cash spent via the scheme will automatically be added on to a customer's phone bill. The scheme standardises the way phones can be used to make payments so the process is the same no matter which operator a customer has signed up for or which handset they are using.
The Lady & The Tiger 2007-09-02 12:37:00 I will give you all a little puzzle to think about, leave your solution as a comment, and if you already know this, please don't spoil it.A man has to choose between two doors, that the king has made him choose. One room has inside a lady, and one has a tiger. The king has given him clues however, for on each door there is a sign. The king says that one sign is true, and one is false. The signs read:Sign on Door A - This door contains a lady, and the other one contains a tiger.Sign on Door B - One of these rooms contains a lady, and one contains a tiger.So, which door contains the lady?
Taxi Drivers: Worst Species? 2007-09-01 09:31:00 My dad ranks them between single celled organisms, and virus's like amoeba. I couldn't agree more. In Jordan, the world's most dirtiest and dumbest species can be found - taxi drivers. They swear, they smoke, they cheat, they scowl, they act... oh, the list never finishes. Find a bad description and it will fit on a taxi driver.One type of taxi is the dirty one, and this is the most common. When you signal to the taxi, you can see inside a fat pig sitting in the seat. He's probably never washed in his life, and wears the worst clothes that you wouldn't be seen dead in. But that's not it, his taxi is worse. The leather of the seats is half torn, the seat belts don't work (I once tried to put mine on, and he said "Shoo, kinak khayef ala halak?! Hahaha!"). You can see some weird gooey liquid on the floor, and there are cups of empty coffee mixed with chewing gum everywhere. And he smokes at least 3 cigarettes in one ride.The other type is the "religious" one. He has a dirty taxi (a Read more:Drivers
Favicons On My Blog 2007-09-01 01:46:00 At last, got rid of that ugly B and put my countrys flag. Looks good, eh?The problem was actually getting someone to host .ico files. No normal image hosting would allow me to host .ico files, because practically - they aren't really images.After hours of searching, I finally found Ripway, which would host any type of file. I then had to turn my png into a ico file, so I went to this good site. And finally, I added this code to my template:<link href=http://ksharif.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/'url_to_ico_file' rel='shortcut' />Try it out if you want.
Thank you, Google Analytics 2007-09-01 00:05:00 Well, according to my friend Google
, I have quite alot of visitors, but only around 1 in 10 visitors choose to comment.I have had exactly 111 new visitors, only 62 of them chose to come back once more. These people were mostly from Jordan (well, duh) - 97. Second up was the US with 55 guests, most from California.The average time spent on my site was 12 minutes, 55 seconds. This was mostly contributed from Jordanians with a spent time of 16 minutes, 33 seconds.For those of you who do not know what the "bounce rate" is, it is the amount/percentage of visitors that have came to your site, stayed on the page, then went to a different site. In other words, these are the people that have only read your blog, and haven't cared to go and comment or see the comments.Anyway, the bounce rate was quite high on most days (grr). Now the interesting part is the traffic sources. Direct sources are the ones that have came straight from typing your link in the address bar, or clicking on a favourite - Read more:Thank
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Intruders On The Windowsill 2007-08-31 03:06:00 I found them this morning, two pigeons and an egg. The other one went, and this one stayed to protect the egg. Nature is beautiful, mashallah.
Every Single School Day 2007-08-31 01:20:00 - Around 5:30 AM, time for salat al-fajirMum: Khaled, wake up.Me: (Snores)Mum: Khaled.... wake up!Me: Why?Mum: To pray al-fajrMe: Oh ok. (Snores)Mum: KHALED!!!Me: Yes?Mum: You're going to miss the salah!Me: Ok, no problem. (Snores)Mum: KHHHHAAAALLLLEEEED!!!!Me: No.Mum: Yes!Me: Ok just a minute and I'll get up. (Snores)Mum: (Drags me out of bed)I get up, crawl to the bathroom, do wudu' then pray. I go back to sleep.- 6:25 AM, around 5 minutes before school busMum: Khaled! The bus will come in 5 minutes!!Me: Ok I'm coming.I get out and start wearing my uniform that needs ironing (but I don't really care) and then go back to sleep.Mum: KHALED!!! WAKE UP!!I drag my heavy bones to the kitchen. I eat my breakfast (which is oatmeal of course - yuck), and drink my tea. Then the dreaded sound comes - BEEP BEEP BEEP!Me: Is it my bus?Mum: YES!!!!Me: Oh god, he's 10 minutes early, again! Is my sandwich ready?Bus: BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEP!!!Me: QUICK!Mum: Go and tell him to wait!I go out and try an Read more:School
Chris Jordan 2007-08-29 11:26:00 The Katrina Wake - Remains Of A BusinessAmerica's Consumption - Crushed CarsAmerica's Consumption - Cell Phones
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JU Mahjoob 2007-08-29 09:56:00 Hahaha.And this is the best ever made advert from Honda, you must see it. (from Youtube)
Creating Custom Backgrounds For MSN 2007-09-29 11:07:00 I decided to make custom backgrounds for Windows Live Messenger. I took something from everyone and put it into their conversation, so each window has a touch to it. :DBelow is a small version, click on it to view larger version (944KB).
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Advertising On 50JD Notes 2007-09-28 10:11:00 I was at my grandma's house when I saw this on a fifty dinars note! My grandmother thinks its a clever idea, original and unique. She says that he knew people with 50JD notes would be rich and would try the number.As for me, I think its stupid, because...A: only lonely people or idiots would call the numberB: why would I bother and call if I don't know what type of business it is - maybe its a disco, maybe a falafel shop!C: most people don't look at their notes, especially people with 50JD notes since they usually stack them together (like 1000JDs)And your opionion?
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Macromedia Flash 2007-09-26 11:50:00 The first time I saw Flash
, I loved it. I never really knew anything about it, just that it had frames, objects, tweens - all the basics a normal flash beginner would know. A boy sat at school, clicking away, drawing something in Flash then tweening it. And their I sat, amazed and confused at the same time. It is strange how you could look at a program and not know what it does, but at the same time you begin to need it.The next day, I went to a close by CD store with my dad. I had convinced my dad to say to the man that he wanted it, not me. I could just imagine the laugh that would come if I came and said I wanted a copy of Macromedia
Flash. So it all worked to plan, my dad handed over 3.5JDs (you greedy shop, blank CDs cost a few piasters), and he handed over Macromedia Flash
Pro 8. And feeling confident, I went home and installed it.I felt stupid when I couldn't do anything on the program. I had thought I had memorised everything the boy done, but nothing worked. I began to feel f
Rest In Peace, ATV? 2007-09-25 08:36:00 The managing director of ATV, Mohaned Al-Khatib, has resigned. He left his letter on 7iber:Dear Colleagues, When I was offered a job with ATV during its establishing phase in late 2005, I had a lot of questions regarding this ambitious project. At first glance I didn’t take it seriously for a simple reason, that I wasn’t convinced our dear country is ready yet for such a project; an independent TV station that has a large space of freedom that enables it to work in a professional manner and attract a large segment of society that looks for a credible media outlet in a market dominated for long decades by official state television. My colleague Mohammad Alayyan managed to convince me – because of the deep faith he himself had – that this project will be different in quality and content, and that there are reassurances from top authorities that the time has come for such a project, which will not succeed unless it was fundamentally different from what we were used to in our s Read more:Peace
An Excuse Worse Than Its Sin 2007-10-03 06:58:00 Or "ﻋﺫر أقبح من ﺫنب" in arabic. :DI got an email this morning - spam, as usual. I usually don't get spam (I keep my email top secret), but this one was some kind of newsletter for Mens Style. I had never signed up for this newsletter, not even any newsletter anyway. Except that this one let you to unsubscribe. I didn't know what was in store.Just say "We don't want to unsubscribe you, we want to send you more spam", just say the truth. Don't blame your poor old system. But, what about me? I'll just adjust the filters in Thunderbird so they get deleted - much easier.
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Sleeping During The Day 2007-10-01 12:09:00 I tried to sleep this morning during the day. Bad mistake, I woke up feeling as bad as hell. For some reason, if you want to sleep during the day, you mustn't have the window closed. And the throbbing headaches and seas of sweat didn't stop until iftar. I won't be doing that again.But is sleeping during the day actually doing you good, or is it actually harming you? Although it does pass time, studies have shown that there is a harmful side to taking naps. A study at Buffalo University shows that sleeping more than your recommended eight hours a day is bad for you. And not just that, it also increases ones chances of stroke!If you sleep more than eight hours a night, snore or regularly are drowsy during the day, you may be at an increased risk of stroke, University at Buffalo researchers have found.These results from the Western New York Stroke Screening Study, presented in Fort Lauderdale today at the American Stroke Association's 26th International Stroke Conference, showed that Read more:Sleeping
I Declare Holy Jihad As Well 2007-10-16 08:29:00 On spam that is. These comments keep coming from "advertisers" in wierd languages unrecognisable in Google Translate. This is the first time I deal with spam, I do not know what to do.Ideas, anyone?
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The Repetition In Eid 2007-10-15 12:29:00 Don't you all notice that we repeat the exact same cycle all the time (except on very few occasions)?You Come To Visit ThemRing bell a million times before they open. Wonder which men's hands you must shake first and which women you are allowed to shake hands with. Sit down, yawn and feel bored. Refuse the horrible "coffee" they serve you. Feel bored again. Try and eat the rock solid ma3moul covered in mountains of grounded sugar. Feel bored once more. Help yourself to the chocolates as you leave the house. Repeat.They Come To Visit YouAnswer the door. Greet guests. Watch people talk about politics and market prices. Serve "coffee". Get told off for not holding cups in right hand. Hearing people talking about boring subjects again. Serve your personally made rock solid ma3moul. More talking, boring as usual. Hurry after guests with chocolates. Close the door. Repeat.
Eid Mubarak To You All 2007-10-11 01:11:00 I hope you have used this month well, as it only comes once a year, and you may not be alive to see it again. I hope all your good deeds in this month will be waiting for you on the Day of Judgement, multiplied many times, and your bad deeds forgiven.Eid mubarak to you all, whether it is tommorow or after that, and remember to be easy on the ma3moul. Even if it is from Zalatimo.
Night Of Fate (Ulqadir) 2007-10-09 06:44:00 I have just woken up at 3 PM, I have slept from 6 this morning. Our mosque actually was really good at making a schedule for the night, and it sticked to it as well.The night started with the usual ishaa2 then taraweeh. I prayed four rukaa2 taraweeh then ran off to the nearby falafel shop, to watch Bab il-Hara 2. But as it got too crowded, I had to wait for the break and then run to our house to continue watching. Luckily our house is quite close and I got there just before the adverts finished.I found the house full of babies. About 5 babies were inside and it seemed my mum had offered to do the babysitting for all my aunties. So I had to continue watching Bad il-Hara while hearing screams of Leen and putting the always-awake Nadeen to sleep.I ran back and continued a few rukaa3 of taraweeh so the total would become 8. After that I went to the falafel shop, which was now empty, to drink a bit of Pepsi to keep awake. I drank a bit too much and felt sick, but at least that kept me awake Read more:Night
11 Year Old In 110mph Police Chase 2007-10-07 09:48:00 An 11-year-old boy and his parents have been arrested after he fled Louisiana police in a car chase at speeds of more than 100mph (160km/h), it is reported. The child's mother and father have been accused of letting him drive for about six months, the Associated Press said. The pursuit began when a patrol car spotted the boy's car speeding on Interstate 310 near New Orleans. Police
gave chase but the car sped away, only stopping at a Burger King restaurant where his mother worked. The boy had been driving home from a hospital where he had dropped off his disabled father for an appointment when the chase began, police told AP. His parents have been charged with the improper supervision of a minor and allowing an unlicensed minor to drive - something authorities said had been going on for six months. The boy was reportedly released to the custody of an aunt after being arrested for fleeing from an officer, reckless driving, speeding, passing on the shoulder, improper lane usage
Meet The 2 Year Old Devil 2007-10-05 04:01:00 Meet Rawhi, my youngest brother, currently one year and a half old. He was born on a Wednesday, we woke up and found a letter stuck on the television, saying that my mum went to hospital and that we didn't need to go to school today. A few hours later, my mother came and along came with her Rawhi, wrapped in a blue blanket. He was good for a few months, until he reached the age of walking.Now Rawhi is in the evil age. He loves adventuring in forbidden places, like the bathroom toilet or the guestroom. Leave him there for a few minutes and you'll find the place like a bomb zone. He is usually told off a few times or shouted at, but he doesn't really seem to care. At lunch time, he insists that he eats by himself, but he usually starts mixing stuff together and ends up eating 'rice with vimto' soup.Although he has destroyed half the house, he is loved by everyone and now know a camera and smiles this weird smile whenever you want to take a picture. Right now, he is chewing on a book Read more:Devil
I'm Only Asking For An Hour 2007-10-20 11:24:00 The worldwide launch of the latest Harry Potter is provoking religious controversy in Israel. Bookstores will be opening on the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day, to sell the final instalment to eager fans. Most shops are normally closed for trade on the Sabbath, which runs from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. Religious politicians are accusing the bookstores of putting profits ahead of religious sensitivities for agreeing to open their shops. The Israeli Industry and Trade Minister, Eli Yishai, has threatened to fine any store that opens on Saturday. Israeli law forbids businesses to force their employees to work on the Sabbath. Forget the main topic, it is irrelevant. See the part where it says about fines and politics.It is quite sad to see how Israel works very hard to put its religion into order. Sabbath is a day in which all shops must close, due to the day's religious meanings of "the day of rest". They take religious matters like these seriously. Punishments are put for
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