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Almost a year has passed since my last post [link]. So much of unbelievable stuff has taken place. The result of the elections I was complaining of was a big joke. The NDP won with the worst kind ever of tampering, gaining more than 95%. Just less than two months later, people finally revolted against the regime, bringing down Mubarak, dissolving the parliament, removing some of the corrupt

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So it turns out I totally ignored my return. I refused the miracle of being brought back to life? My last post was more than 1 year and 8 months ago. I thought that I was alive again. I thought that changing jobs would mean a start of a new life. Yes, I started a new life with a new job. I vowed to change. I promised my self to improve. I laid out plans for the next coming couple of years of my

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Well, it has been almost 4 years since I have started this blog. I don't know why have stopped writing in it. Obviously, by skimming through the dozen of posts I have written, most of my posts are about rants, criticizing, pathetic comparisons, some personal diaries and some technical posts. This would lead to the conclusion that I am not focused and this blog should be specialized. Well when I

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It has been almost a year since I have last posted. Too bad I quit writing and I think I have lost all my writing skills. So most probably, I will be writting some crap till my style improves. But why have I suddenly remembered my blog? It is the holy month of Ramadan, almost 6am. I don't know. I am just a bit bored and I ran out of websites to checkout. So I hit www.site and suddenly sitemeter

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Burma is a former British colony that gained its independence in 1948. It is the country of the former Secretary of the United Nation who is very well known in Egypt for his compliance with Nasser in the 1967, U Thant. It has been under oppressive military rule since 1962 that is lasting till this day. It is currently ruled by a military junta similar to the one that was ruling Egypt after the

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I have been following this TV Series about King Farouq I, the overthrown monarch and the last ruling member of the royal family. Although nominaly King Ahmed Fouad II was the list king of Egypt, but he was 6 months old when he was a declared as a king and he was in Italy with his family till the declaration of the republic and abolishment of monarchy one year later. That particular part of

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I felt I had a lot to say. I felt the need that I want to write a lot. I came here to write something like 5 different lengthy posts about 3 different topics, but suddenly, as soon as I went to the blog I became blank!! Don't know why. May be its 4.30 am. Hmm, anyways, I decided to revive this blog. I will come back soon in about a day or two.

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I don't know why, but last night I started a new hobby which is keeping track of President Hosni Mubarak license plate numbers. Yeah, President Mubarak has to participate in the openings or inaugurations of several projects and structures that doesn't require a prime minister to attend such as 6 October Highway bridge, several farms at Toshka valley, a factory owned by one of his gang or close

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Dear Sir,You are a well educated person raised in an upper-middle class family which itself is a result of a marriage between the good Mubarak and the Thabet families. You went to the prestigious American University in Cairo where not only you gained your bachelor of arts in Economics but also went through the rich core curriculum with its interesting courses starting with the boring 112 and 113

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pfffft, I haven't blogged in a loooong while. I think I forgot all about my previous posts. I also haven't wrote anything in a loooong while too. But I have read a lot. I read a collection of short stories for Alaa El Aswany called Niran Sadiqa ( Friendly Fire), followed by his hit 3omaret Ya3qobian (Yacoubian Building) and finally his 2007 hit Chicago. I didn't watch the movie of Yacoubian but

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I have come back home a couple of hours ago. I was at Cafe with some friends about 5 or away from my home. I went back home on foot. I have gone back home through this route many times before but from different locations other than the cafe. I decided to change the streets which I take. I had this strange feeling while walking through streets. The weather was a bit chilly and misty. The mist was

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After less than 3 weeks of being installed on my computer, Firefox 2 crashed. I was only working with 4 tabs. Two of these tabs were unreached pages, the third being a Google search page and the 4th was an online football text game which uses an extension. I was also using 2 other extensions, one of them being the great Adblock. This is a bad omen, I am not sure if it for me or for Mozilla. I

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Today, that moment, that very moment in which that ful stop is written ----> .Other moments that are just passing by. These fragments that I am writing with no verb. The coming moments, the passing moments. Sieze them. Sieze the moment. Feel the time. Don't get swayed away along the current. Living this life. Crossing the river to the other bank without drowning. The Angel of Death is drawing

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Away from the problems of DSL service in Egypt or the copyrights violations caused by usA very bad trait of us Egyptians on the internet is prevalent. Its the concept of not sharing what is downloaded. I admit I used to do so back in the dial up days. But at the end of these days I used to set my uploading speed at least at 1kb/sec at the times I was connected to the internet. I was still

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Two trains collided this morning coming from delta during the morning rush hour at 7.15am. Number of deaths so far ranges from 51 as of 11.15am - 8.15 GMT, according to the Egyptian, and as many as 80 according to Egyptian Security sources who said so to BBC. About 160 were injured. Rescue and evacuations continue at this moment including the separations of the metal bodies of the trains. Main

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The war is over. The brawl between Israel and Hizballah came to an end. Away from the debate whether it was worth it or not but this was my first Isaeli conflict in which I don't feel that I am in favour of it. I didn't feel it was my "war". I remember back in school 6 years ago when the intifada erupted and amount of feelings one had and how I wanted the Egyptian army to go to war. This time I

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If i have taken this test 6 years ago, I would have scored much higher. Being a nerd is not that good. This is quite an improvement. The more I forget my academic life and get more involved in my job that will be possibly unrelated to my undergraduate studies, the less I will score and get rid of the nerdiness. Untill first year of university I knew more than 100 elements of the periodic table

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This is the picture of the man who started the ruining process of the modern Egypt, back 54 years ago. He lead to the complete failure of the democratic process, his era witnessed 3 military defeats, waste of Egypt's beauty, silencing and torture of people and most of all, he led the away for the dictators who followed him and are ruling us till this very moment. However, he charmed the 20

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This is a bit touchy subject. Away from my own religion but this is just an important remark. If anyone happens to see the locations of where the new (post 1970) mosques, it will be easily realized that the majority of mosques or masjids are built on green areas, more specificaly, roundabouts where there used to be a mini parks in residential areas. Yeah, check all these masjids in Heliopolis,

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I don't know why do I always post the bad news in here. Effective this morning, Firday July 21st, price of the 90 Octane gasoline will increase from 1 LE to 1.30 LE /litre ($0.85 US/gallon), the first increase in 15 years. Diesel increased from 0.60 to 0.70/litre, the second increase in 1 year. Nothing was mention about the 92 Octane and the 95.Not to mention that inflation was about 7% last

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I haven't blogged in a long while. One of my two friends who are occasionally taking a look every now and then on my blog thought that I gave up blogging. Maybe I tend to be less active in summer. Maybe, as my friend said, I tend to vent off my anger against the government in this blog and I don't have any feelings toward it. However, I am kinda bored of blogging. Its not boredom but I am not

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Yeah, HizbAllah shoudl be saving Egypt from a coming tourism season recession. According the weekly tourism article in Ahram by Mostafa El Naggar, who has been writing about tourism for a log time, tourism in Egypt is suffering from a set back in reservations, nights and number of tourists. Egypt is losing the markets of western europe and only the increase in Arab tourists, is balancing the

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Today, I participated in the funeral of a close relative of mine. She was old, not very old with today's standards. She is/was 80. Other than being kind and generous as those from the old generation, I really liked her stories. I miss hundreds of her stories about my relatives and other people close to us. I wanted to to write down these stories which most of them she told me in her last few

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Starting next saturday, July 1st, the Underground Metro ticket price will increase to 1 LE. This means I will have no need to keep these 25 piasters paper notes and not care anymore for them. I really hate these paper notes. In addition to the notorious 1 LE note that is now being taken out of circulation although I am yet to see the new coin that should be replacing it, the 25 piaster should

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The Ministry of Communcations and Information Technology (MCIT) in cooperation with the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority have announced the new prices of the crappy DSL services in Egypt that will comply with the requests of people so that idiots like me don't complain of the shitty service that is provided at 3 times the price of neighbouring countries for 1/3rd the speeds and at

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I don't know what brought this up to my mind. But earlier this afternoon while I was planning about next I went back 10-13 years in time to school time when I was in primary school years. There was this system of reward that they used with us. We had a chart with the names of students in our class and with about 100 boxes. I don't remember what this chart was called. This chart was like a

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The Egyptian stockmarket is continuing a somewhat sharp longterm correction movement. Today, Monday 12 June, the downward trend is getting sharper.As of now 1.30 PM, the prices are as follows for main stocksHRHO: Hermes Holding -6.8% @ 28.51ETEL: Telecom Egypt -4.0% @ 12.94ACGC: Arab Cotton Ginning -5.28 @ 8.08ORTE: Orascom Telecom -2.74% @ 260.00ESRS: Ezz Steel -5.16% @ 43.87Mobinil are

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The problem is not only from the corrupted government. Its in the people. The real problem is with the people of Egypt. They are not asking for their rights for two reasons. The first one is they don't know what are they rights. The second is fear of the stronger force. For the time being, I believe that the first problem has to be solved and then the second will go away. Why don't people know

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I have always wanted to talk about this thing. Webcams are one of the importants tools that can help promote a country. Not only that, but they can also provice important traffic information and can be very helpful in emergency situations. Not to mention the pleasure that many people on the internet find in watching webcams from other countries. I am a big fan of webcams and many times and I am

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1 whole year passes today for me participating my political rights. I voted in that wacky constitution referendum that took place on the last week of classes of last year Spring 05 semester. I still remember the whole today. I had two classes back then. I attended them after I got my voting card and went to vote later. I was the only one at the polling station. I thought that Mubarak was sincere

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The Egyptian stock market suffered from another big drop today sending a lot of stocks to record 18 months low. Top dogs like Hermes (HRHO) went down 11% to 34 LE which reached 250LE just a couple of monthes ago. Telecom Egypt dipped to 11LE, corruption rampant media and production city which was ripped off by its previous president Abdel Rahman Hafez and runaway business man Ihab Talaat, closed

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Something is waiting for me out there. I have this feeling that either its coming towards me or I am moving closer to it. What is this thing? Is it something I want? No, it is something that destiny is keeping away from me. Or is it something that will happen because of the interaction of different events I experiencing? I can't really tell. But I know that I want get to this thing.The question

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Wow, the hier to the throne of the Egypt has secretly flown to the US last Friday, May 12th 2006 and met with the whole US administration starting from the "dumb president" as called by an American from Minnesota in my literature class, his vice DICK Cheney, secretary of state Ms. Rice and some other officials. I was surprised today when I read about that on the Washington Post's Website this

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What's wrong with me? Now, I know I am Egyptian by heart. What the hell is wrong with me? My attempts to become a good citizen who wants to improve in order to help the others around him are failing. I am trying to be a good citizen. I want to bring a change to people around me. But I couldn't bring that change to me first. I tried many times. I succeeded for a good while. Then I returned to the

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Before our local newspapers start their usual whining (or ass kissing) on the usually truthful articles by the Washington post which has been posting some articles against Mubarak that the governmental owned newspapers describe as zionist attacks, ((laugh my ass off)). But before posting their article I want to tell you that the 2 billion dollars aid given to Egypt pours into the benefit of the

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It happens to many people that they have pictures deleted from their digital cameras by for any reason. It can be accidently like what happened to me and my father in England last year when in some way or another 256 MB of beautiful scenery taken in a park in Oxford were deleted when we tried to copy them to the computer. Pictures can also be deleted on purpose like what happens to those sneaky

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I am thinking of a change in the regime. I am not the only one who is thinking of this thing. But what sort of change I am dreaming about? Mubarak? Is ousting Mubarak the real solution to our problem? Will a new government and a constitution be the key to the door to prosperity and democracy? I think this is not true at all. Change will not come be going out to shout and yell at those poor

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With reference to Dr. Razavi's Good to Know Info: It's Not the Davinci Code... post on Dr Razavi's blog who is a doctor working in Google, she posted a link to the Centre of disease control talking about a major problem in the United States which is Sexually Transmitted Diseases. They are one of the leading countries in the world with such enormous number of cases.According to the link to CDC's

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Shortly, at 12am, time will be advanced 1 hour to 1am to start the Summer Daylight Saving Time here in Egypt. Instead of being GMT +2, it will be GMT+3 untill the end of April.Daylight Saving Time takes effect on the last thursday of April and ends on the last thursday of September. This has been the case for the last 10 years. Before that, it was between the first of May and the first of October

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Is it for people? those less then a dozen who come here directed for search engines everyday? for people i know who might peek in for while every year? for other bloggers in what is called a blogosphere? Or am I writing for myself? Just vent my thoughts out or speaking out of what I read, see or hear for something that at least listens. Yes. The machine listens. It doesn't care for what I say but

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This time the real suspect is known. It not that stupid lie our government said about the mentally ill guy. It is us, the passive people of Egypt. The incident in its essence has nothing to do with religion at all. It has to do with the ignorance of the Egyptian citizens.I think this is time to face our own fears. We have to admit that there is something wrong. Its not about religion and

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Finally it was officially today in Ahram newspaper that the Egyptian, the 1 LE bill and the 0.50 (50 piasters) bill will be replaced by coins effective 1st of June 2006. The equivalent papernotes will be taken out of the market eventually. The 1 LE coin is consists of a copper-nickel outer ring and a copper-aluminium inner core. It will be similar to the Canadian toonie and the british sterling 2

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Yesterday, Thursday, April 13th, I decided to go to the stadium instead of going back home and watch the league game between Ahly and Ettehad Of Alexandria. Yes Ettehad has a website. Can you believe that. Go to www.itthad.com. The website of the "Seberto" fans in Alexandria. They are also posting some bullshit on their wesbiteعلم اتحاد دوت كوم أن جماهير النادى الاهلى قامت عقب مباراة الفريق فى

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيمقررت اني أكتب بالعربيطبعا انا مجبر اني أكتب بالعربيبسبب البحث اللي هكتبه لمادة الأدب العربيالحديث. البحث ده كان ممكن أكتبه و أقدمه عاديأو أوديه لمكتب من بتوع الكتابه دول أو أي حد منصحابي و لكن مش هينفع كده خالص بسبب خطّي الليعامل زي افرازات المخلفات الهضميه.أنا بحاول أكتب بالعربي علي الكيبورد و لكن سرعتيبطيئه جداَ و مع انّي بحاول و لكن الواحد زهق خالصالمهم أختم كلامي بالبيت

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This a big shame that its not of the top news in our newspapers. Its not even on the website of Ahly Sporting Club official website who are now sponsoring the player.But Amr Shabana, the Egyptian squash champion is now on the top of the world ranking. He is no.1 now. He jumped 2 places, from the 3rd to the 1st in April well actually because of the former top ranked player Jonathan Power retired

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English Public Lecture by Novelist Ahdaf SoueifEgyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif '73 will be delivering a lecture titled "A Matter of Agency: The Image of the Arab in English and American Fiction Today" on April 6 in Ewart Memorial Hall from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Soueif is author of In the Eye of the Sun, Aisha, Sandpiper, Mezzaterra and The Map of Love (shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize) and also

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I think this is the first non translated arabic literature written in English directly that I ever read in my life. I read short stories for Mohamed Tewfik but this is the first novel to read under such category. This arabic literature in translation course is the best seminar subsitute choice I have taken.Well, I have some problems imagining how Egypt was in the 60s and the more I read the more

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OK, the connection is working. I will have to increase intervals between updates screenshots from 5 sec to 30 sec for some technical problems.Check the link:It should start working normally at 11am Cairo Local Time and testing at 9am:Cairo:http://ximo.cjb.net:12000[update]8.30(should be working now)For total Solar Eclipse at Salloum, check that website:I wish i was there.Salloum:http://

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Here are the the shots I took with the webcam. Right now its cloudy and the sun is trying to break out. I will post today the link to my webcam. The sun will be in the middle of this image so hopefully tomorrow will be a good viewing day of an once in a lifetime event. 85% of the sun will disappear in this picture. Come back later for a view tomorrow at the exactly same time, 11am Cairo time,

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I managed to get a laptop and a camera with a clips as my intel camera cannot be fixed in the balcony. I will do a test tomorrow of the setup and will post the image here. I don't think the laptop owner will not disagree installing apache on the laptop and the auto capture tool which by the way i got from the XP power tools when i was trying to use my webcam as a surveillance camera.PS. Come back

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There will be a partial solar eclipse in cairo Egypt where upto 85% of the sun will be covered by the moon. The heavenly show will start in Cairo around 10.30am and peak at 12.30pm.This is my second solar eclipse to watch. First one was in august 1999 when about 30% of the sun was blocked by the moon. I remember it darkened a bit. This time it should get dark enough to enable pictures to be taken

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What the hell is wrong with dsl service in Egypt? I found out its not only me with LinkDotNet, or my friends who I referred them to LinkDotnet as well. Its also other fellows with TEData and Raya. A friend of mine has a lot of problems with TEData on the Heliopolis exchange. Another friend in Mohandessin has a lot of problems with Raya.Anyways, the last three months with LinkDotNet saw the first

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I am too excited about the crash because i predicted it a couple of months ago after people rallied behind Telecom Egypt. I am copying this market report from Hermes Brokerage Company. This is well phrased, Easy come easy go. I do not believe in conspiracy thiories. This is the market. Ups and downs. And for every action there is a reaction.NewsEgypt MarketReview-Tuesday (14 Mar. 2006)A black

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yippeeee!!!Egypt stock market crashed. This is not a real crash. This is a correction movement. After months of unjustified appreciation in prices, everything is going back to normal. This shoud have happened long ago. Thousands of dumb egyptians went in the stock market after the frenzy of the Telecom Egypt IPO. They took the decision to venture into the stockmarket with no previous study or

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I am not sure about that. But when accessing the MSDN website with Internet Explorer, IE6, the browser freezes and sometimes crashes. This happened to me many times. Before the SP2, SP1 and on both the Windows XP home edition and Windows XP pro. I only tested that on about 4 computers only but at different times.take the following link for example.http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url

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Well, i am tracking the visitors to my website and 70% of them are from Egypt. Most of these visits are refered to me from search results from google. One of my favourite quotes is "Google is my friend". I am active blogger and I usually post every 2-4 weeks. However, I got about 3 visitors looking for names of ministers in Egypt. I felt that I have to help them. I started to list those whom I

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Is the government destroying the local poultry industry? Is Egypt going to be a net importer of chicken after exporting what is worth more than 30 million US Dollars last year? What will happen to 2.5 million perons working in this vital industry? I will not be able to answer all these questions but I will just voice my own opinion. The government is fighting the outbreak of bird flu virus by

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Well, I have something to say on the bird flu. Not defending the government but increasingly more number of people led by Soot Al Omma Newspaper accused the government of hiding the truth of the virus for a month before last Friday's announcement in the favour of major poultry producers.Well obviously this is not true at all since that once the first case happened others started to be unveiled

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It is official now. Avian FLU reached Egypt. It has been confirmed by the World Health Organization and have just been reported by Reuters just 10 mins ago. Don't believe the government media if they deny it.CAIRO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus have beenfound in dead birds in three areas of Egypt, a senior official from theWorldHealth Organisation (WHO) told Reuters."

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I have been using DSL for 3 almost years so far now. All 3 years have been with LinkDotNet. However, the first year was on the backbone of Egynet the only License A provider at that time. Speed was always consistent (had and still 512Kbps) and the line was down only twice but in the whole area because of problems witht the exchange.Since LinkDotNet got its own license and moved to its separate

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I want to keep myself from using bad language in this post after I read the following article but it will be even more harder for those of you who tried to vote in the past elections in Egypt. I deleted some swearing words from that line. Damn... that article filled me with anger when I read it!The following is posted about the elections in Canada from the Ottawa Sun- If you don't have a voter

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All of us know how kind the Egyptian people are and how nice of them to each other and to foreigners. I learnt that from school. I always read about that in the Egyptian media; TV programs, newspapers, silly shows and other forms. Whenever something contrary happens to that, the usual comment is that such incident is an exception and the usual phrase is said "El donia lessa bekheer".Well this is

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This is a new year 2006. Shall I say happy new year? No I won't do so.oh well.., uh Happy new beard.I don't really care about the new year. I care more about long term plans and short terms plans. If I care about annual plans then most probably I would care about the financial year. I don't know what the idea about a new year. People just want to celebrate anything. I will celebrate it on a

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It is not a nice thing to grow older. Time passes by so fastly that one can't feel it. If it was destined to me by god to live for the age of 60 or 70 I reckon I will regret the time I wasted and how nice was my youth and will wish back for those days to come. This is already the isssue now. I can't believe that I am over twenty. Few months from now and I will graduate and start faing that ugly

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I came up with the following one day after the final exam of the Operating System course. I am sure I will find it modified and shared on email chains later on. It first appeared on the Google Group of the course.Here it follows:My advise to anyone is not to take 341 and 345 concurrently. They will cause deadlock. I have already swapped them out of my memory and compressed the fragmentation that

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This has been one of my worst days in university. December the 14th. I will just share my thoughts about that day.The worst feeling is to feel crippled and you have to save your life while you are drowning.One keeps getting streched untill "tuck" a snap happens.Always expect the worst from people.Never show allegiance to unworthy but strong foes.There has to be a time when the legend will be

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i have many times came across these silly tests that many stupid people do and i decided to be stupid and do one of those about my blog. Here is my blog rating. Well, this time in turns out not be really silly. This is somehow close to reality. This is the first short post I have written ever. I saw a lot of similar tests like what is your political orientation, how romantic you are, how you

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Stress, it is the psychological pressure one suffers from accidents, work load, deadlines, people and life. This is my definition. Since I am still a student, now a senior in university, the usual kind of pressure would be exams and grades. Not really. I don't give a shit about grades. I used to care about grades when I was a real nerd. I was but I am not now. Although I have to keep my gpa high

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First of all this post has to go to my other blog The CS memoirs however, I hardly update my main blog so I decided to stick to it (this one) for the time being !!As I stated before earlier last summer that I don't really care about grades but this time I have to give little attention for them Ref# Lecture and Lab Midterm 1 !I got just below average in the Operating Systems course and the reason

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Before I go into my new subject I would like to point your attention that this is not a political blog but the current local events are turning me on. I am still talking about my experience so this is my own account. I will soon post news about my first semi official acting experience and may be part of my poetry. I will also talk about my impression about some of the short stories of Youssef

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Browsing blogs became a daily habit for me or even more than that. Wandering through blogs now accounts for about 5-10% of the time I spend daily on the internet. Yet, even though I am interested in blogging, I am not able to catch up with my blog that I started last May. Not only that but I decided couple of months ago that I will be looking after two blogs, one academic and technology related

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Been quite a long time since my last post. It seems I am not of that type of those active bloggers. I am interested in blogging but don't have time to do so. Well, I will make a quick recap of the important events that have taken place in the past 7 weeks since my last post. wooosh!Egypt's Presidential electionsBeing food poisonedAccelerating semester1. I participated in the elections that took

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I am starting my classes on Monday. I hope I will get better grades this semester though i don't give a real damn shit about grades. I am taking 2 fundamental courses to my area of study and that's why I decided to activate my other dormant blog My Other BlogNext Wednesday I will have give it another shot at practising my basic right as a civilized Egyptian citizen and vote in the first

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Yesterday I have been to the public universities admission office to sumbit my sister's documents and secondary school certificate. I did that for myself 3 years ago and I had to do it twice because i was a fool. I didn't want to give them the originals so after spending 2 hours in the line, I had to go back home and bring the originals and comeback to spend 2 more hour, however it went somehow

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wow, been a very looong time since i have last written here. I was busy with my exams and....pain. My pain kept coming and going. I went and did more blood analysis and an IVP X ray which i don't know what it meaning but it reveals my Urinary tract organs to track the so called stone. The surprise was that there were no kidney stones at all and the first diagnosis was wrong. I also did blood,

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Still waiting for the passage of the stone. It still causes me pain every now and then. Today I woke up with some pain around my belly button again. I don't know what's damn wrong.Anyways, less than 2 weeks left for the end of the semester and to be precise only 13 days and to be really accurate, 12 days and 20 hours because the final exam will end at 12pm on friday July 22nd. I have the second

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Today featured lab experiment no. 12, the most boring lab experiment ever. It was about clamping and clipping voltage signals. The experiment itself is easy but I had to draw 12 sketches on 8 graph papers in less then 3 hours!!! I am very slow with graphs and I really hate them.Anyways, more important is my stone that has been the only reason behind my health after the amoeba that caused me 6

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I haven't been feeling well during the past 2 weeks and specifically the last 5 days. I went for some x rays and ultra sonics today morning and I skipped the lecture -- No materials were given luckily. I went to university and attended the lab normally. The ultra sonic and the x ray revealed a stone down my right ureter which has been causing me pain for more than 2 weeks. The stone is about 3-4

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I had had my first mid term for the physics 215 circuits analysis and devices and its boring everyday lab 221 yesterday and surprisingly I got the grades back today. Well, I have shown dismal performance and got below average in both. In the 215 i got 23.5/30 and the average was 24.3 points. In the 221 i got 6.5/10 and te average was 6.8. This means I am in the B- range for both. But there is

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Well, the semester is over and the grades were mostly satisfying except for the Math grade because of the rude math professor. I took a 12 days vacation that was awful. I had a an intestinal infection by an amoeba and another parasite because of something not healthy that I have eaten. Well, generally I am strict about what I eat and I usually wash my hands with soap or any disinfectant since my

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Aha! Today I finally began to exercise my political rights as an Egyptian. I Voted in the referendum to amend the 76th article of the constitution. First, I had to go to the Police station to get my voting card. I had problems finding my birth place authority that follows my district. A city is divided into districts and districts are divided into smaller administrative areas called "Shiakha"

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I finally decided to have my own blog. Let's see how it will be and how much attention it will bring. None among my close fellas have any blog. I hope will be frquently posting here. I also want to explore the avaiable options and space. I am willing to pay from some extra space hosting If I am satisfied with this. I will be ready to pay about $10 a year! Let's see what will my next post be.

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