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I'm going tom to the IAA conference, Jordan?s first annual advertising and communication conference.

I bought a laptop yesterday. If you know me really well you'd know how much I hate laptops, but this was a good deal, and this laptop is basicly Kick Ass; Toshiba Tecra M1, 1.6 Centrino, 512MB Ram, 60GB harddrive, firewire, infrared, WiFi, Digital Video Card, Combo DVD/CD-RW And some more features. But the looks are yucky, Maybe i'll mod it to look like iMac or something

The reason why I hate laptops, they keyboard is silly, I can't even write my name on it. Beleive it or not I also hate LCDs, bigtime I'm planning to buy a dock station to solve these issues.

I'm planning to install Windows XP & Debian( Or Ubuntu ) on it.

But this would be good to present some stuff for my clients. carry my work around, spend my free time hacking when i'm not home.

I really feel like writing, but nothing to write about hehe

I registered a new domain http://ammar-ibrahim.com . I'll be working on a personal site when I have some free time.

The PHP Security Consortium has officially launched. The following is the
press release:

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Leading PHP Experts Join Forces to Establish the PHP Security Consortium

NEW YORK, NY - January 31, 2005 - An international group of PHP experts
today announced the official launch of the PHP Security Consortium
(PHPSC), a group whose mission is to promote secure programming practices
within the PHP community through education and exposition while
maintaining high ethical standards.

"As PHP has transitioned from personal projects to enterprise application
development, the need to educate the community about secure programming
practices has risen," said Chris Shiflett, the group's founder.

The PHPSC web site (http://phpsec.org/) provides a variety of security
resources for PHP developers, including the group's flagship project, the
PHP Security Guide.

"PHP application security is a topic of growing importance," said Andi
Gutmans, one of the group's charter members. "The launch of the PHP
Security Consortium is a landmark event for the PHP community, and because
most web development technologies face similar security concerns, we
believe that developers using other solutions can also benefit from our
efforts."

About the PHP Security Consortium

Founded in January 2005, the PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an
international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure
programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek
to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources,
including documentation, tools, and standards.

In addition to their educational efforts, the PHPSC engages in exploratory
and experimental research in order to develop and promote standards of
best practice for PHP application development.