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Imagine a bike, normal bike, protesting against bush! Isn't that impressive?

Bikes Against Bush was created by Joshua Kinberg. Joshua, an emerging-technology artist and activist based in New York City. He felt that he needed to protest in an unusual way against Bush's administration.

The idea is that there will be protestors(Bikers) riding thier bikes in Newyork. The bikes have spray devices attached to them, accepting messages from the internet. The messages will be painted to the streets of Neywork!

I wrote the message "Bush is killing innocent people all over the world". Please write your own to stop people from voting for Bush. There are one thousand reasons to be against Bush.

As I have been recently working with more clients from the US, it's becoming harder to communicate. I decided to do a trick to get myself a US phone number.

As I have been recently involved in delevering sophisticated communication solutions utalizing Voice Over IP, I managed to do the following in order to get the service.

I got a server to be placed in the states, and installed some FXO cards.

Connected that server to a PBX that "listens" to my fixed line US number

Whenever somebody calls me, I get the server to transfer the call using SIP protocol to my computer at home

Simple isn't it whenever somebody rings the phone in the states, I can answer them in Jordan. And they probably think I live in DC.

Now what I'm looking for is a hardware "IP/SIP Phone" And a really long range normal cordless phone. I got some Telephony cards at home, So basicly I can route that incoming call to that long range phone. I'd have a roaming US number!

Good news is that this service will be offered very soon to customers in the middle east by IPFloat. Contact me if you need more info

Yesterday I went with Akram Baker to Century Cinema. We watched FAHRENHEIT 9/11. Honestly, one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. And it's also very funny, yet very sad.



Michael Moore tries to tell you the turth behind the attacks of September 11th & invasion of Iraq. The documentary explains the secret relationship between the Bushs & the Saudis!

First of all, it shows how Bush didn't win the elections. And how his cousin, brother and others helped him to cheat. And when he became a president, things were not lookin' good, he spent 42% of his time on vacation.

Afghanistan, It's so weird that it was all just for an oil pipe line.

What really shocked me, is when the director went to Iraq and he spoke with some soldiers. They put on a CD in thier tanks, some aggressive music "The roof is on fire". And they go hunting Iraqis. These dumb immoral soldiers think it's a video game. They don't fight for a cause.

Everything in the documentary is so logical. Every person involved in Bush's administration seems to be a corck.

As Browse Happy suggests, The first rule to browse the Internet happily is to get rid of Internet Explorer. Because IE can make your browsing experience unsafe. Next thing to do, switch to a better(safe) browser. You can also read stories of people who dumped IE to a better broswer.

I would like to know what you are using? You can leave a comment

I logged in to my stats server today to see how things are going for the month of August. I was shocked! Look at the graph below! I must say i'm happy! I want to see more people using FireFox! read my previous post about FireFox

Isam Bayazidi created Jordan Planet. A Planet is a group of bloggers having thier blogs posted all together. What happens is that planet reads 'RSS' feeds of all those bloggers and puts them in a single page. Planet is open source and freely downloadable, written in Pyhton.

Jordan Planet so far has 5 bloggers. We'd love to have more quality blogs on our small planet . We're also looking for a logo.

I think this is the next big thing after wiki in building communities!

For those who have been living in the cave for a while. There a kick-ass browser called firefox from mozilla foundation. It's open source, lite, very usable And fast! runs both on windows, Linux and other platforms.

Out of all the great features, I want to show you what features i use most.

1- Tabbed browsing:
Imagine you're" google"ing for something, and you want to open 5 search results, you don't to have a seperate window for every item. you just open the link with clicking on the mouse wheel, or holding ctrl and clicking your left mouse button. it opens in a new tab! this is the best feature ever

2- RSS feeds reader
After you download the browser go to this page and download the plugin. After that go to the websites you visit often! I have slashdot, sitepoint, blogs i love to read. and add them as bookmakrs in the RSS folder. then click "ctrl+r" and the rss reader panel will show! Viola!

Click on any item, and it'll load the latest headlines from that site. it saves so much bandwidth, it's much faster.


3-Web developer Toolbar!
if you're a web developer, just go ang get the Web Developer Toolbar. It helps you debug your code and many other things

4- Search for link
when a page loads, just start typing. and firfox automatically starts searching for a link that matches what you are writing! really neat.

There are so many other features. Give this browser a try, and say goodbye to IE

Today I recieved a strange email:

Some executive manager got my bus. card from a friend of mine. She sent me an email with the subject "Web site offer needed".

the most important line in the email is "I don?t have any details to give you about the website, but I would be grateful if you can send my the offer with the regular details for any website"

Well, I really don't blame clients. I blame web designers for this. Could anybody tell people that building websites is not all about selling "components" or products. Check out this helpful article

Well.... I guess I'm on of the last people to catch the blogging fever... I'm going with the flow.

I'll be writing my thoughts, concerns and hopes in this blog. I will try to commnet on the tech. scene in Jordan. And probably some posts under specific categories are going to be technical and useful to geeks like me.

Let's get started~!