Ammar Ibrahim's blog

On wednesday, Play 99.6 Organized the "Goodbye Summer" party at Fizz. For the occassion they got one of the best Lebanese DJs to rock the crowd. I must say that everything was really great, except for the music. The music was dull, you try hard but you can't move. After midnight, Things changed, the dude started playing some real music, it was a lovely night.

Part of the crowd

Noosh & Sus

Noosh, Moi, Sus

As you probably know we've been working on creating the first region-wide Bilingual blogging service. It's nearly finished. The service is not officially launched, we're doing some final tests before going live with the BETA.

You can test drive Albawaba Blogs today. Your feedback is what will make the service better.

I'm chatting with a friend online, and he told me he received a couple of phone calls from people in Irbid telling him that people are in the streets fearing an earthquake.

Then he recieved another phone call from another friend whose dad is a top official, telling him the same thing, let's hope it's just another rumor...

Chris Shiflett the man behind PHPSec and an expert on web security finished his long awaited PHP security book, Essential PHP Security.

More info on Chris's blog, and hey don't forget to buy a copy

From ESR's Blog

What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs
to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to
something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a
Satanist orgy?

A must read....

A Japanese company invented what we all thought was impossible, a device that allows you to control your dreams. You author your dreams in "Dream Workshop", then you get to dream about it.

Guys, now you get to dream about Catherine Zeta jones everynight
Ladies, now you get to dream about Diamonds everynight

Full Story on BBC.

The whore, Microsot's CEO( Steve Ballmer ), threatened to kill Google. This is related to Google 'stealing' a Microsoft executive. 

But this is quite new, an uptime cake for a server check it out on NuCleuZ blog.

Spotted in Barcelona. Via Jameed's photo stream.

Currently I'm writing an article on the state of Open Source and PHP in the middle east. As you would have probably guessed googling didn't give much useful information. I would like to know about your experiences using them. What are the difficulties that are stopping OpenSource from being mainstream? Why didn't OpenSource get a chance in our educational system?

Any information would be valuable, elaborate, innovate and send me whatever you have