Month: March 2006
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Ecto: simply brilliant desktop blogging!
Today, I stumbled upon a post by tech pundit Om Malik (of the Business 2.0 fame) in which he lists his top 10 favorite Mac apps. I found a true gem: Ecto. GigaOM : » 10MacApps : Ecto, still the best blogging client in the world and well worth the $18 dollar price. This application…
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A new SYNTAX baby is born!
Wael (aka Sha3teely) became a father on Thursday. Welcome to our world, baby Joon. And congratulations to Shuruq and Wael! Read these related posts on 360east: Baby Sinan was born exactly a week ago.. SYNTAX career opportunities On physical junk, mental junk and the joys spring cleaning SYNTAX seeking Business development wizard in the UAE…
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Testing Ecto
Just testing the Ecto desktop blogging client. Testing 123 indent.. Let’s see if this works.. What about block quotes? Read these related posts on 360east: Ecto: simply brilliant desktop blogging! Testing photo linking on Flickr 8 Mbit: ADSL heaven, ADSL hell.. MixUp Arabia episode 5: testing the iRiver 790 recording feature just another test..
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I took the bus (gasp!).. So am I now officially uncool?
I can’t really remember when was the last time I took this form of public transportation in Amman, but It might have been a full decade ago. From age 7 or 8, till I was 18, I almost had a daily bus ride. My last 3 years at school at Al Hussein College in Jabal…
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Apple to employ 3000 in India R&D facility by 2007
Steve Jobs wil soon be visiting India to inaugurate a new R&D facility for Apple in Bangalore. Starting with 1,500 people, the facility will employ 3000 people by the end of 2007. Amazing, huh? Read these related posts on 360east: Apple backs out of Indian support and R&D venture (reason for yipeee??) iPod goes classic.…
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Ashrawi as Palestinian Foreign Minister in Hamas Government?
In yesterday’s Al-Rai, Husni Ayesh [Arabic link] presented two intriguing pieces of advice to Hamas, both of which would be political bombshells. 1. Appoint Hanan Ashrawi, a globally respected, christian Arab woman to the post of Foreign Minister in the the upcoming Hamas government! 2. Recognize Israel under the 1947 UN resolution that portioned Palestine…
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Tuesdays in Al-Ghad: Highly readable opinions of Khashogji and Sagheyeh
Tuesday’s op-ed page in Al-Ghad is always interesting. Two Arab liberal voices, the Saudi writer Jamal Khashogji and the Lebanese writer Hazem Sagheyeh always provide good reads. Yesterday Sagheyeh was writing about how every political party in Lebanon (and the wider Arab region) usese God/Allah in its street slogans. He sees this an a sign…
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Qatar Airways rebrands
Most Qatari corporate identities are particularly badly designed. If you want to see a sample of those just watch a few Aljazeera programs. They all seem to be sponsored by this or that large Qatari company. As a relatively young country, Qatar still seems to be infatuated with itself. Companies have names like Qa-something (Qafco).…
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To hell with IT.. It’s skyscrapers we need man!
Zeid Nasser reporting from CeBit Hannover about the almost non-existent Jordanian participation in the “biggest show on earth” for IT. What a shame! Who needs IT when a real estate IPO can attract 1 billion dollars from 160,000 investors? Zeid Nasser’s blog: CELEBRATION | Reporting from the biggest show on earth! So, it’s the world’s…
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A parliament that wants to jail journalists
Another instanse of backwardness propagated by the Jordanian parliament (actually its so-called National Guidance Committee). The committee insisted on adding the punishment of imprisonment for certain journalistic ‘offences’ under the new press and publications law, eventhoough the government has submitted a draft law that DOES NOT include such punishments. A big hurrah to the representatives…
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Dreaming of a villa in the Jordanian desert
Been to Aqaba over the weekened. Photographed the desert road from the speeding car. Read these related posts on 360east: Amazing project: Greening the Jordanian Desert Two faces of Ammani villa architecture Children and the great Arabian Internet Desert Free Energy Sheikh Apples and Oranges: what Jordanian iPhone rumors did YOU hear?
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Jordan’s middle class: Dead? Shrinking? or Growing?
I keep reading in the Jordanian press that the Jordanian middle class is shrinking. I’ve been reading this for 10 years and I have my own opinions about this. A few days ago, the above cartoon by Amjad Awartani was published in Ad-Dustour daily. It illustrates that in Jordan we have a small rich class,…