Swobodin v Brně

لا أتعجب من أهل الشرق الذين يستعملون أرقاما هندية فكنا نحن المغاربة ذات فترة نستعمل الأرقام الرومانية و كان المصريون يستعملون الأرقام الهيروغليفية: كل يستعمل النظام الذي يتماشى وثقافته
لكن ما يثير دهشتي هو اعتقاد أحدهم أن الأرقام التي يستعملونها أرقاما عربية! وأن الأرقام التي نستعملها هي أرقام “غربية” ابتدعها الغرب وورثناها عن الإفرنج
ثم أضاف أننا […]

Je n’ai pas de voiture, et comme beaucoup d’autres citoyens, j’utilise le bus comme principal moyen de transport, et je ne pas dire que je suis satisfait.
Hier par exemple, une tâche m’a obligé à rester jusqu’à 20 heures au boulot. Tout semble normal puisque le dernier bus part théoriquement de la station du TGM […]

I think it’s time to make my confession, about a sin that everybody gets afraid of even hearing of it…
Yes, I did it, and I have been working for many months in making robots to retrieve informations consisting of links and E-mail addresses from portals and repositories, decoding and flooding, using methods that the […]

 
The French daily Le Monde, which has a tradition of publishing full texts by politicians and intellectuals, was one of the first organisations to publish the full English text of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to US president George W. Bush, on May 9, 2006. On the same day, the US daily the Wall […]

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality […]

Quino is the greatest!
 

Fidèle à son effronterie et à son sens de l’humour, Jean Yves Lafesse vient de sortir une nouvel épisode de délire “Lafesse dépasse les bornes”, avec un avantage cette fois-ci : il est célèbre. Il faudrait donc changer de tactique !
La force comique de Lafesse repose sur sa capacité d’improviser, de trouver les bons […]

While reviewing yesterday’s stats, I found out that I got a little more than 500 visits, never reached it! I know, some might say: “Yeah, too bad, that’s the lowest number I can expect”, but for me, it’s the highest number of visits.
I would not write about it if it were not very different; […]

 
Pablo Milanés nació en la localidad cubana de Bayamo. (…) Formó parte de grupos como Los Bucaneros y Cuarteto del Rey, pero en 1964 se independizó y comenzó una búsqueda personal que le convertiría en figura señera de “la nueva trova cubana”. Una música estilizada y una voz cubanísima  iluminan su esas canciones esbeltas […]

Disclaimer:

A renunciation of any claim to or connection with
Disavowal
A statement made to save one’s ass

That’s not my definition, I found it at the movie “Dogma”.
Anyway, This post doesn’t aim to encourage you to spam else’s blog, but this is a message to those who underestimate the spam effect that shows how easy and simple […]

Winning in chess may be sometimes common; but what is not common, is beating an M.I.T brain! I did it!!
I had a talk with my oponent who was friendly, told that s/he is from Massachussets, and has a connection with MIT (student, degree, teacher or whatever).
Anyway, The match started with a refused Benko gambit […]

Rain has a strange effect; I don’t know whether people feel the same, but I have just noticet it.
I was walking and it got raining; i had no umbrella, no hat; well, no problem: I was still walking and thinking…
But what attracted my attention is the suddent inspiration that made me figure out about […]

May 9th, 1945, “Victory day”. Mareshal Zhukov “defeated” the last German troups in Berlin and forced the Colonel-General to Stumpff.
61 years later, another Hitler is ruling the world; this one is even more dangerous and probably does not know who was Hitler…

إنكم تستلذون أن تضعوا شرائع لأنفسكم
بيد أنكم تستلذون أكثر أن تكسروها وتتعدوا فرائضها
لذلك أنتم كالأولاد يلعبون على الشاطئ يبنون أبراجا عظيمة بحزم وثبات ثم لا يلبثون أن يهدموها ضاحكين صاخبين
فعندما تبنون أبراجكم الرملية يأتي البحر برمال جديدة إلى الشاطئ
وعندما تهدمون أبراجكم يضحك البحر منكم في نفسه لأن البحر يضحك من الأبرياء أبدا
ولكن ماذا أقول في […]

 
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
The Project Gutenberg has over 10,000 books legally available for download in more than 50 languages: German, French, Spanish, Afrikaan, Yiddish, … except in Arabic.
I sometimes want to look for electronic books written by famous Arabic writers in their original […]