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Here's a Pic when I was 5 years old. Rock all night long

Following the Trend.
The List of things I want to do is endless, so I will write the stream of thought I have in mind:

1- I want to graduate from University, because I have been there for too long, soon, My mates will become my lecturers.
2- Improve my spanish & go to Cervantes( Spanish cultural Center )
3- Go to Spain in Summer
4- get a digital Cam
5- finish my website
6- Learn C
7- Accomplish my secret open source project ( PHP related, would take 2 years of work at least )
8- Shut down my current business and move on to the next big business I wanna start in no more than 3-4 years
9- retire by the age of 27 and start working on my crazy experemntal projects
10- Gain weight
11- Start playing basketball again.
12- Visit every country in Europe.
13- Go hiking again in Wadi Al mujib
14- Write a PHP book in 2 years
15- Get certified, I only need a day or two to read the guide! I don't have the time to do that.

100 Mugs & cups, 20 Bowls( nothing but noodle spices left there) 50 plates and countless other small things( knives, spoons...etc ), I managed to wash this pile hanging around in the kitchen's sink( with the help of auntie 'Om Ehab') Thanks to Auntie. She wondered why I'm not eating Fruits & Veggies, since they all were rotten when I got back from Syria, and I never had the time to shop for some.

After My aunt went home, I got really excited about doing things. I cooked fettucine! got a HUGE Pepsi bottle and had good romantic dinner with my Laptop.

I want to become a better more active person. So I decided I will go to fix my car tomorrow & Fix the heating System( I got a flu because it broke down last week ). Then, I will go to buy some Fruits & Veggies! But most important is that I'm going to get a hair cut first thing in the morning, and oh yeah fix my cute goatie

Mom will be coming after 10 days. I want to keep the house as clean & neat as possible.

for the past 10 days I have been eating noodles for breakfast, lunch & dinner. My mom went to KSA, so noww I'm living alone, 12 more days.

The kitchen is so messy, I think a dinasour is gonna come out from there soon.

waaaaaaa3

Following the trend Roba started.
The confessions OF SAINT Ammarine

1- Az3ar
2- I hate swimming
3- I never wake up early in the morning
4- I get attached too much to people I love.
5- I love looking at cute girls, I get slapped sometimes for that hehe( thank god i'm single now )
6- I haven't played basketball for years I don't work out anymore
7- I love to sleep for 14 hours
8- I'm a very forgiving person, but sometimes one mistake from someone is all what it takes to never talk to that person again.
9- I get bored easily
10- I love to be famous
11- Never regretted a thing
12- I HATE to SHAVE my DAMN BEARD! Ergh, I got a goatie and I need to go to the barber whenever I need to shave it!
13- I can sweet talk anyone
14- No1 Social bluffer
15- I hate how thin I am, I wanna gain some weight.
16- I'm very emotional sometimes
17- I'm so stuck back to 70's. Flower Power Dudes
18- Somebody said once: "Ammar is into 70's that if I didn't know him very well I thought he'd be programming fortran"
19- I miss my Afro

OK it's official now. I'm going to Muscat-Oman in May (inshalla) to give a presentation in a conference about online gaming. I'll be talking on may 3rd 14:15-15:15.

I'll be running a one hour interactive workshop about online gaming. I'll be representing Albawaba in this conference/workshop.

The interesting part is that there are alot of kickass companies participating in it; SUN, Nokia, Sony & Others.

Oman babes, here I come

Sorry for not posting this earlier as I have been interviewed the day I left to Syria. The interview was about blogging & Jordanian bloggers. The interview was over the mobile, so some of the information written is not what I really meant. But after all, i'm happy that press are noticing blogs.

Read the interview.

Tommorrow at 8 PM i'll be leaving to Syria to attend & Speak @ FOSS 2005. Almost 20 people are going from Jordan to attend this conference, 3 are going to be speakers. All Jordanian speakers will speak on the 3rd day of the conference.

I'm really excited that I'm gonna be speaking in this conference, I'll be giving a presentation on building Web applications using Open source technologies( PHP ).

Hope to see you there guys

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

Isam Bayazidi Posted about FOSS Syria 2005.

I'm sooo excited for this event, and going for sure. The big surprise is that richard stallman is among the speakers there! I can't beleive it, hes the father, philosopher And inventor of the whole free software concept.

The List of speakers is exciting, Isam is going to be a speaker also. I can't beleive the Syrian guys, they are doing such a great job.

Last year it was one of the best conferences/workshops I've ever been to. Many useful sessions, interesting speakers & great food.

So Far I think 10 people from Jordan are coming.

"Qol ma 2aaloo ahh, y2olly howwa la2"

I went along with Zaid & Isam to have coffee at Burgerking, since it's the only place that's open after 1am. As usual we start discussing issues related to Technology; especially OpenSource & Linux.

Zaid Left at probably 2:30, then, me & Isam took a walk in Al madeenah Al monawrah Street. Isam asked me about my current involvments in OpenSource Projects. And it turned into a really interesting discussion, Here's Why OpenSource really matters to ME, apart from the usual stuff you always read over the net.

I'm not a 9-6 programmer, no, programming, computers technolgy and all that are more of a lifestyle & a culture to me. When somebody nicknames me "Geek", I consider it as a compliment! I couldn't find Self Esteem & Challenge in any work developed for my clients. In a couple of minutes I could come out with a really good architecture, and develop a really complex site according to their standards. The clients I worked with are some really high profile clients in the region and abroad, even developing a complete online solution for a major VoIP company was no challenge at all.

I decided this should change, I'm not learning, I'm not satisfied. I started by dedicating my free time to work on opensource projects, state of the art technologies & academic research. OpenSource gave me the challenege I needed, I worked with the best PHP developers in the world. We shared experiences, I learned from them, I tought them, we were all working as a community.

Most OpenSource developers initiate projects to satisfy their needs, needs to be a better programmer, a perfictionest. What OpenSource taught me, would have taken me 10 years to learn.

Currently I'm working with the godfather of HTTP & PHP Security, Chris Shiflett on some research. Chris formed a group of 6 PHP programmers to study the security of web applications. We will be doing lots of experemints, it's really exciting, I always wanted to do research and come out with something useful for the commnity. I hope we will come out with exciting results for people to benefit from.

OpenSource gave me what no other thing was able to give; Self Esteem, satisfaction & great learning oppurtunity. By looking at a well developed opensource application in a couple of days, I learn what the 'darn' university I go to was unable to teach me in 4 years. For this, I will be ever greatful to this great community.

I got a call from Ma'en. And I decided to go to Shehrezad one thousand and one nights. The really thing is that Naseer Shamma, Iraqi musician and Oud Player is part of it. The thing starts after one hour, so I better go and get ready

And the other events I'm looking forward to go to are:

• Tango Flamenco: Those who know me, know how much I'm obsessed with Flamenco and Spanish Culture. This is te reason that got me to learn Spanish!


• Fire of Anatolia: I was watching the TV yesterday(Yes3ed saba7ak) and they played parts of it, It looks amazing!

I'll keep ya posted

Giving birth? Hell no! It's the pain of teeth! It's 6 am! I only slept for one hour! I've been trying to do everything to stop this pain! I can't find the pain killer. I would shoot myself now to stop this pain! damn it's so killing me. I have to wait till 9, probably then I can go to a dentist.

I woke up at 9:30, had only 3 hours of sleep. Then I Called a client to cancel the meeting because i'm sick. I walked into the room back again, and i found my mobile on the floor, I picked it up. Guess what? The screen is broken! seems like somebody called me or something, and the vibration made it fall over from the table.

And when I tried to check my email, there was no connectivity, and as usual when you call the ISP, they blame Jordan Telecom. Internet connection was available at 6 pm!
What a day!