After boarding the Royal Jordanian (RJ) plane heading for Amman, and while waiting for the take-off we were asked by the stewardess to hand in all what we have of, not knives, not nail clippers, not sprays, not cork screws, not shoes, but rather hand in all of our Guavas! Some people have boarded the plane with some guava...
I arrived at Amman’s (Queen Alia’s airport) at 8:00 PM. George & Karim were waiting there with a sign carrying, not my name, but rather “Ruby on Rails” – all in red . As they haven’t seen me in person, they figured out that a RoR sign will get them a real smile or a nice wave and it...
Following the wonderful post at svn for the “most beautiful thing”, I felt the urge to wander in the opposite direction. What’s the Ugliest thing you’ve seen lately ? Feel free to have multiple replies. Technorati Tags: ugly, opinions, poll, svn, beautifulpowered by performancing firefox Trip to and back from work. Sometimes I HAVE to close my eyes, that’s...
While talking to a good friend last night, we came up with a new DD acronym. Introducing the SDD or “Stability Driven Development” 🙂 . Although, it was meant to funnily describe how some people regard their careers in the context of their responsibilities, the same idea can be used to come up with really genuine DD names: BDD:...
This link shows how things would look like for my home city if sea level rises ONLY 1 m. Although, most of the city will not be affected, yet, it seems that It has turned into an island, which would definitely make it uninhabitable. What is our geovernment doing??? What is the world doing??? Hellooooo. The mashup was prepared...
What a strange building! It seemingly has some rooms at the ground floor, but, those stairs lead to …. nothing. I’m thinking of starting a competition for the sake of identifying its purpose. I pass by the mystery twice a day and every time my curiosity rise. Is it a statue? Does it have an industrial or functional purpose?...
From Earth to Mars. Now with Terrain, Stories, Landers, and Regions. Great.
Life in the Googleplex, a Time magazine photo essay of life inside Google. An inspiration. [via fosfor.se]
After trying to figure out why the Recent Entries and Recent Comments (right side column) were not playing nicely with my new template, I’ve managed to update the style. The new theme is as you can read from the footer is “Based on WordPress Theme by Vladimir Simovic”. The problem during the update was due to some variables scoping...
JRoller (or is it Roller?) is becoming a real mess (from a user perspective). After accepting the fact that it is real slow (take away the javascript), it’s now more and more unstable. First; My Referrers are gone. I can take the fact that no one is interested in my postings, but, I can’t imagines I’m “that” unpopular. Second;...