Stuff for Sale
I have added a few things of my personal stuff for sale. If you are interested please click here. Sorry if you find this post irrelevant.
UPDATE: Everything sold.
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iPhone in Egypt - To buy or not to buy…
Apple will be launching their iPhone in Egypt in the near future, and everyone thinks that I’ll be one of the first to get it as I’m a Mac/Apple freak. They are wrong.
There are several reasons that I will not get the iPhone.
GPS: Being in Egypt, GPS will be disabled in the iPhone. To get [...]
Ramadan Iftar Drive - II
It seems that I got addicted to it. I did the same thing today, but I drove the opposite direction. See the pics below.
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Ramadan Iftar Drive
Home alone, and iftar time. Decided to take a ride in the amazingly empty streets of Cairo. The stop was near to the pyramids. See the results below.
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Follow up on the iCal bug
Following up on the missing August 29 in iCal in this previous post, It seems that the issue with not having the 29 August on the iCal is a timezone issue with iCal itself.
I asked my friend who also use Macs if they were facing the same issue, and it was a yes, until I [...]
In need of sleep
I can say that I have migrated 99.99% of my blog to WordPress with success. The challenge was to avoid any broken links and it seems that things are running OK. I am really in love with WP’s simplicity and the way other blogging tools work with it.
Next I will hack around the theme a [...]
Hello Wordpress
After many years of using Drupal, I have finally migrated to Wordpress. Don’t get this wrong, it’s not that Drupal is not good enough or anything of that sort, on the contrary, Drupal is so powerful, that it was exceed my needs as a tool for blogging.
I fell in love with WP’s simplicity. That’s the [...]
Khaled Matar (or Mattar) - The reason not to tune to Nile FM
Do you listen to 104.2 - Cairo’s Nile FM?
Not in Cairo? Ever tried to listen to it via satellite, or even via the internet at www.nilefmonline.com?
Ladies and Gents,
Nile FM is proud to announce that they are now on a Kamikaze mission. Yes sir. They have hired the “most” annoying voice in Cairo. The one and [...]
Captcha Back On
I accidentally found out that my Captchas were not working due to some settings glitch that happened during a Drupal upgrade.
For this I am sorry :)
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Inbox Zero
Merlin Mann from 43 Folders presented this at Google last year. I adopted this concept, and it really made a big difference. I have embedded the video of his presentation.
Enjoy
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