Month: December 2005

  • Annahar 13 December 2005

    Just another reminder about this sad and mad region we’re living in. Read these related posts on 360east: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic ships in the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in December ‘08 MixUp Arabia episode 7 | Oct 12, 2005 | The Ramadan Cast Say Happy New 2010 on Amman’s 1st Cricle tomorrow The crowd…

  • Response I got from Google (puzzling)

    I sent the Google adsense peope a question regarding the delay I have been experienceing in the display of their ads on this site. I got this reply Thank you very much for bringing this issue to our attention. I have forwarded the information you provided to our engineering team for further investigation. We hope…

  • Apple brand and sales in the Middle East stifled by lack of Arabic Microsoft Office

    Open letter to Apple Dear Mr. Steve Jobs and the rest of the Apple family: I am a Mac evangelist who is simply frustrated with Apple’s position in the Middle East. Your company was a pioneer in Arabization and that’s why you completely won the Arab desktop publishing market in the 80’s and 90’s. Today,…

  • To Al-Ghad tech editor: respect our intelligence!

    This is not funny anymore. In today’s Al Ghad tech supplement I found. among other things, these stories: The traslation sucks. Easily translatable words like ‘blog entree’ are just kept in English. The whole thing is nearly unintelligible. I am sorry but this not what we expect from Jordan’s ‘next generation’ newspaper. Now have a…

  • Is anyone else in Jordan experiencing slowness in accessing Google?

    My interent experience over the past few days has been horrible. Accessig Google search and Google Adsense site has been horribly slow. The Google home page either does not come up or takes over 30 seconds to appear. Has anyone in Jordan (or elsewhere) experienced this? Read these related posts on 360east: Google.jo! Google’s slowness…

  • Your entire life, digitally recorded!

    TRENDS | 10,000 photos on your hard disk are only the beginning, Ahmad Humeid prophesizes How many photos did the average human being have of him or herself 300 years ago. None. People where lucky if they had someone do a portrait of them. Only kings and barons could afford an oil painting of themselves.…

  • Yaser AbuHilaleh, the man, his blog and his recent ‘attack’ on the Luweibdeh park

    A post in two parts I. Yaser AbuHilaleh, the well known journalist, fascinates me. I just discovered that the man is one year older than me (born 1969) and that he has a new blog (on the new Maktoob blogging service). I also just found out (on his blog) that we went to the same…

  • A quick walk through downtown Amman

    Read these related posts on 360east: When did Amman’s shop signs loose their beautiful lettering Rescue downtown Amman from the “Bab Al-7ara” attack! Salt: Jordan’s forgotten urban jewel A Lebanese man walks in Amman.. How “Necessary” is it for an “online” shopping business to have a website?