Month: April 2006

  • The toot girls do it again!

    The month of April will be officially over in 13 minutes.. I am looking at the toot top 10 for the month. THE GIRLS DID IT AGAIN! Seven out of the top 10 voted bloggers are female. Thank goodness ‘we men’ still have Sabbah as the number 1 blogger in April. But let’s not fool…

  • A new blog is created every second.. What about Arabia’s blogosphere?

    Anyone in doubt about “this blogging thing”, should check out David Sifry’s late State of the Blogosphere post. David is the Founder of Technorati, the leading blog search engine, so he should know what he’s talking about!: Sifry’s Alerts: Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months…

  • toot reaches Hungary!

    Just stumbled across this mention of toot on a Hungarian blog! We ‘reached’ Hungary, people! Here is an attempt to translate that page into English (warning: machine translation follows). Thanks for the mention sesblog.. Read these related posts on 360east: Let the best designed blog on toot win Soon on toot? toot launches the first…

  • Google SketchUp: free download for Windows

    The power of SketchUp has been unleashed for the masses. After the acquisition of SketchUp by Google, it was announced today that a FREE version, dubbed Google SketchUp, is available for download (for Windows, Mac version coming soon). The commercial version of SketchUp is now called SketchUp Pro and still priced at $495. The free…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Jordan Communist Toilers Party and Progressive Party CONDEMN Communist Unification Conference

    We interrupt our regular blog posts to bring you this BREAKING NEWS. We are getting reports about DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS regarding the planned conference aimed at unifying the Jordanian Communist Movement! The Jordan Communist Toilers Party and The Progressive Party have DISTANCED THEMSELVES from the efforts by the Jordan Communist Party and a number of Veteran…

  • Google translate English-Arabic!

    Automatic translation.. that elusive dream. Now Google has English-Arabic-English translation in beta. Just tried translating this site. The results are amusing

  • Amman’s First Charity Rock Festival

    Amman’s First Charity Rock Festival Originally uploaded by Secular Humanist. Just got this from reader Moey. Amman’s first charity rock festival friday 5th of may, 2006 at Haya Cultural Center [HCR] – Shmaisani. all funds going to orphans of the society by HCR. concert starts 5pm with 4 rock bands playing covers and originals, and…

  • Same camera, double the price!

    PHOTO | Avoid buying a digital camera in Jordan, Ahmad Humeid advises. Whoever buys a digital camera from a Jordanian store is probably getting grossly overcharged. So beware. If you have a relative or friend coming from the US (or even Europe) then by all means ask them to buy a camera for you. While…

  • Stop diesel pollution poster!

    Click on it, get the large version, print it out and hang it somewhere. [Thanks Sha3teely]

  • Rumors, slander and the limits of blogging

    This morning I deleted two comments from this site. As regular readers of this site know, I switched on comment moderation some time ago to prevent comment spamming. And quite honestly I sometimes use comment moderation to delete certain comments. The two comments I deleted were based on rumors about corruption/skandals etc. Needless to say…

  • Amman has a new mayor: Omar Maani

    This evening I heard from two people that Omar Maani is replacing Nidal Al Hadid as Amman’s Mayor. Maani, an engineer by education, comes from the private sector to the job. He is a director of a number of Jordanian industrial companies. He is also a board member of the Social Security Department’s Investment Unit.…

  • Al Wihdat football team discovers the REAL Third World

    Al Wihdat players training in the hallways of their hotel! Yesterday in Al-Ghad there was a fascinating piece on the cover of the sports section about the ‘suffering’ of the Jordanian Al Wihdat football team which is currently in Bangladesh to play against a local club in the context of the Asian Football Confederation Cup.…