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Archive for February, 2006

Road to Freedom

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal […]

Privacy?

Monday, February 27th, 2006

I was in the post office, sending DVD’s to some friends. All the pack were closed but the employee audaciously opened them, saw the content and even read what’s written!
I did not wonder, since I have already learned about this, but I just asked whether they respect privacy, he said “What?”.
I told: “According to […]

The Strange Story

Monday, February 27th, 2006

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الرواية الغريبة

ضحكنا على الماضي البعيد وفي غد            ستجعلنا الأيام أضحوكة اﻵتي
وتلك هي الدنيا رواية ساحر            عظيم غريب الفن مبدع  آيات
يمثلها الأحياء في مسرح الأسى            ووسط عذاب الهم تمثيل أموات
ليشهد من خلف الضباب فصولها            ويضحك منها من يمثل ما يأتي
وكل يؤدي دوره وهو ضاحك    […]

Such beauty really exists!

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

I got this pic from Wikicommons, and thought it was “human-made”, 3D software or so, but, it’s real! Hot spring at Leirhnjúkur, Iceland.

Flood in Tunis after 15 minutes of raining

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Thanks to Swifty who dropped me the pic, it was taken yesterday.

Just another ridiculous spam comment

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I’m fed up with such shit, apply if you are interested, and see how much my poor blog suffers …
 
New comment on your post #211 “The Guardian: Armed gang takes £40m in cash depot raid”
Author : Roheet Shah (IP: 71.255.160.23 , pool-71-255-160-23.bstnma.east.verizon.net)
E-mail : roheet@aicongress.org
URI : http://www.hamsaweb.org
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=71.255.160.23
Comment:
Hello,
 
My name is […]

Funny Backronyms

Friday, February 24th, 2006

NASA - Never Actually Sure of Anything
FBI - Fearless Band of Idiots
Fiat - Fix It Again Tomorrow
Alitalia - Always Late In Take-off
Pentium - Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Math
Windows - Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
Vista - Viruses, idiocy, spyware, trojans and adware
Java - Just Another Vain Attempt
Navy - No Anal […]

The Guardian: Armed gang takes £40m in cash depot raid

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

An armed gang escaped with up to £40m million in a raid on a high-security cash storage depot yesterday in what is thought to be one of the biggest robberies in history.
 
During a meticulously-planned operation, the depot’s manager and his family were abducted by two groups of men posing as police officers, while other […]

All that is Gold Does Not Glitter

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Lenin’s works and Stalin’s corruption

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

History is not honest at all! When powerful people write History, it becomes subjective and non-sense!
We all know that Vladimir Lenin was with Trotsky against Stalin and has criticized Stalin many times especially after the conflict between Lenin’s wife Nadia Krupskaja and Josip Stalin in 1922~1924. However, in Lenin’s works published in the 70’s […]

Porn content on Wikipedia

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

The Great Free Encyclopaedia is not always fair … I wonder how did they reserve a whole page with definition, biography, filmography and discussions for a porn actress, who probably thinks with her tits rather than with her brain.
Sure, I am for free access to information on the net, I just think that Wikipedia […]

Guantanamera, guajira guantanamera

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

¿Quién no conoce el famoso poema escrito por José Martí en 1891, y interpretado por los mejores cantores cubanos? Así, Guantanamera es una de las canciones más populares del mundo, un canto a la libertad, a la solidaridad, al orgullo.
 
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera
 
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar […]

Fedora Tunisia logo updated

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Redhat requested that a Hat should not be the Fedora Logo; so I had to change the Fedora Tunisia one. No idea about how to combine the new Fedora logo with the Tunisian flag, thus I asked TuNiSiaNo for help and he suggested an original idea that I liked: just a different logo! […]

Unwanted IP’s in the trap

Monday, February 20th, 2006

It’s crazy the smappers’ IP’s I cought! They generally use proxy servers and post by mass. The best solution is to get rid of the problem from its root: denying access from the unwanted IP’s.
Below is the list I could get, you may add it to your .htaccess file if you wish.

72.5.115.*
72.5.115.127
72.5.115.0
209.190.4.10
209.190.4.106
209.190.4.*
216.255.176.18
216.255.176.19
216.255.176.*
61.128.100.116
66.132.143.8
66.199.247.74
69.41.161.55
80.178.147.66
80.178.156.118
80.178.147.*
80.81.24.33
85.64.110.147
85.64.110.239
85.64.110.*
195.175.37.55
70.135.76.65
216.213.252.27
66.207.120.227
213.249.155.240
221.212.177.97
218.56.32.230
200.71.51.208
220.130.51.160
203.35.166.3
24.232.205.186
66.207.120.227
221.212.177.97
218.56.32.230

When bloggers play chess

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Saturday I played an online chess match, I already played thousands of similar games, but the interesting fact is that it was against a Tunisian blogger, /etc/shadow. Honestly, I thought I was going to win the match within few moves, but he built a solid but passive defence and could liberate his pieces in […]


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