Month: November 2004

  • Saying farewell to my 6210

    MOBILE | If for looks or for function, one day you have to part with your old phone, as Ahmad Humeid found out OK, so by now I am fully convinced that mobile are mainly about style. “It’s part of your personality.” As my younger, college-age, brother told me over an MSN chat the other…

  • To Eid or not Eid, that is the question!

    Moon visibility curves for Friday, November 12, 2004. Definitely no moon in Saudi Arabia.. The moon would have been visibile Saturday, 13 November.. As I child, I used to listen to the grown ups in our family argue endlessly about when the Eid Al Fitr (marking the end of Ramadan fasting) is supposed to start.…

  • No need to re-submit your comments.. 🙂

    The Grendizer post generated a lot of feedback. Thanks to all who has written in. By the way, as I announced before, i switched on comment moderation, which means your comments need to be approved by met before getting published on the site (that’s why your comments are not appearing at once).

  • Remember that flying robot?

    MEDIA | When today’s 30-something’s go nostalgic, they go online and dig. Ahmad Humeid does his own digital shovelling The other day I had one of the strangest business meeting. Stuck in a typical Ramadan traffic jam in Amman, I arrived 20 minutes late for my appointment at my client’s office. But instead of rushing…

  • Check out Play.jo

    Check out SYNTAX’s latest branding work for Play 99.6, Jordan’s No.1 Hit Music Station.. A full press release about this project will be issued soon..

  • Fixed comment posting

    I just fixed a broken link that was preventing posting comments. All this late night site fixing and spam fighting caused me to mistype a link in the code. Comment away people..

  • Don’t be shocked! It’s still my blog!

    After getting hit by the blog-spam, I decided to upgrade to WordPress 1.2 (for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, WordPress is the great software that powers this blog). So with some help from my friend Ammar (who is the one of the greatest PHP programmers and webheads in the known…

  • Post US election stuff..

    Have a look at this amazing site Sorry Everybody. And this list correlating the average IQ of US States to whom they voted for. Yep.. Read these related posts on 360east: A ’special’ mobile plan for parliament election candidates only! Please tell me who to vote for in the 5th district The rise and rise…

  • Telemarketing rears its head in Jordan

    TELECOM | ‘Who’s that mysterious lady that wants to talk to my wife,’ Ahmad Humeid asks. “Hello, Good Morning” “Good Morning”. “Can I speak to the Madame” “Err, sorry, she’s not at home. Who’s speaking please” “When will she be at home?” “She’s at work. Sorry..But who’s speaking?” “Well, I’d like to speak to Madame..”…

  • Got hit by the damn blog spammers!

    This is crazy. This blog got hit hard by blog comment spammers. Every message now has 8 fake comments pointing to an online casino site. This is disgusting. I just activated moderation for the comments so that this stupid spam doesn’t get published. I will have to clean the site soon. Just had a look…