Archive for November, 2006
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Bureaucracy is derived from the word bureau, used from the early 18th century in Western Europe not just to refer to a writing desk, but to an office, i.e. a workplace, where officials worked. The original French meaning of the word bureau was the baize used to cover desks. The term bureaucracy came into […]
Posted in General, English | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Could you expect it?
http://blogs.reuters.com/2006/11/28/stealthy-insects-vs-suicide-bombers/
Posted in General, Fun | No Comments »
Monday, November 27th, 2006
Here’s a quick and dirty shell script to convert some data from SQLite to HTML format.
sqlite3 -html contacts.sqlite “SELECT name, number FROM contacts” | tidy -asxhtml > contacts.html
Tidy will fix errors and convert the table into XHTML format.
Posted in General, XHTML, SQLite | No Comments »
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
كان في مرة طفل صغير
عم يلعب بالحارة
عم بيفتش
واتطلع
شوفو
شوفو شوفو طيارة
جاية لعندي الطيارة
كان في مرة طفل صغير
عم يلعب بالحارة
عم بيفتش
واتطلع
مدري شو عم يلمع
شوفو شوفو طيارة
جاية لعندي الطيارة
هي طيارة كبيرة
وما بدها خيطان
وجوانحها أكبر
من بيت الجيران
فرفح قلبه وطار
عـجناح الطيارة
والسماء الكلها أسرار
حكيت له أسرارها
وقف بالساحة
ينده رفقاته
كان هدير الطيارة
أكبر من كل الأصوات
(صمت تام)
…
تجمعوا الولاد
وفاتو باللعبة
وهزت البلاد
قصة مثل الكذبة
والهدير تحول
لدخان كبير
ومدري […]
Posted in General, Music, Arabic, Peace | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
I have seen an accoona ad on Euronews, with the slogan “Reinventing Internet search”.
I have submitted my blog there 2 weeks ago, the search engine has been crawling and spidering the whole blog, increasing the bandwidth usage, but my blog still does not appear on the search page!
I still prefer Google, although nobody knows […]
Posted in General, Network | No Comments »
Monday, November 20th, 2006
Oil could sometimes become needless, and even dangerous.
Tintin confirms it during his trip to the USSR.
Posted in General, Fun | No Comments »
Monday, November 20th, 2006
Google bought the dot com dot tn domain, and a new address is now available:
http://www.google.com.tn
Not too early, but it’s a good step.
Posted in General, Google, Tunisia | 4 Comments »
Sunday, November 19th, 2006
SPECIES:
Cranial Males
SUBSPECIES:
The Hacker (homo computatis)
Description:
Gangly and frail, the hacker has a high forehead and thinning hair.
Head disproportionately large and crooked forward, complexion wan and sightly gray from CRT illumination. He has heavy black-rimmed glasses and a look of intense concentration, which may be due to a software problem or to a pork-and-bean breakfast.
Feathering:
HOMO […]
Posted in General, Computing, Fun | No Comments »
Sunday, November 19th, 2006
Strange enough! /etc/shadow noticed to me that all the blocked sites in Tunisia are open today, discarding the big 404 of the fake Internet Explorer page, aka The Internet White Screen of Death!
Bug or intentional policy? we will know about this soon. Porn sites are free for access today!
Posted in General, Fun | 3 Comments »
Saturday, November 18th, 2006
15:00, Ciné Le Rio:
Machuca (Chile)
18:00, Ciné Le 7ème Art
Historias Mínimas (Argentina)
21:00:
Tequila y ron No hay plata
Posted in General, Movies, Personal, Spanish, Tunisia | 4 Comments »
Friday, November 17th, 2006
عثرت على هذا التعليق في احدى المنتديات العربية
انتم تقولون عننا احنا السعوديات مكبوتات هه؟
لا ابشركم احنا السعوديات من اكثر البنات دلالا في العالم واحنه من اغنى بنات العالم واكثرهم رقي واشرف بنات العالم ولله الحمد .واقول بكل من يشكك بحريه السعوديات ان السعوديه عندها 5 سيارات وشغالتين وسواقين . ها وش عندكم اعوذ بالله كلش […]
Posted in General, Fun, Arabic | 12 Comments »
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Adobe has released ActionScript Virtual Machine (Flash) to the Mozilla Foundation. Code name: The Tamarin Project.
The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox® and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript™ […]
Posted in General, Free Software, Actualities | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Granada, tierra soñada por mí,
Mi cantar se vuelve gitano
Cuando es para ti.
Mi cantar, hecho de fantasía,
Mi cantar, flor de melancolía,
Que yo te vengo a dar.
Granada, tierra ensangretada
En tardes de toros, (Perdón Lobs)
Mujer que conserva el embrujo
De los ojos moros.
De sueño, rebelde, gitana
Cubierta de flores,
Y beso tu boca de grana,
Jugosa manzana
Que me habla de amores.
Granada, […]
Posted in General, Music, Spanish | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
May be the W3C hasn’t paid attention to this bug which is considered as a feature.
When you write in Arabic letters and you include numbers, the numbers turn into Hindi, instead of Arabic ones! I do never use Hindi numbers, that’s why I’m obliged everytime I write in Arabic, to use Gimp in order […]
Posted in General, Arabic, HTML, XHTML | 6 Comments »
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
I hate soccer, and I’m not interested in it at all; but I was very glad yesterday after the defeat of the Tunisian club team, for no car accident was reported in my street last night, as the crazy fans were sad and without mood to express their “happiness”.
Posted in General, Tunisia | 4 Comments »