Bill Cleven compiled 50 dumbest things Bush ever said, I do believe it’s not the only ones. Below my favorites :
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” -Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002
“We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.” -Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
“Can we win? I don’t think you can win it.” -after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, “Today” show interview, Aug. 30, 2004
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” -Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.” -Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” -Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
It’s not really new that Stumbleupon is gaining more and more popularity over the last months, but I was surprised today to see Stumbleupon traffic on its top with 9k unique visitors only for today, while last week Digg makes about 15k unique visitors. This have been said, it’s the holiday season where traffic is very very slow, even worse than weekends. Got slashdotted, got Digged and got Stumbleuponed ! Anyone got similar experience with Stumbleupon ?
Did I mention that Alexa is dead ? I’m just wondering who’s still using their toolbar.
I think it was the worst choice for the execution day, which makes Saddam Hussein this year’s sheep of Eid. And Mr Bush top of its hill said that Saddam execution won’t stop the violence in Iraq, yes don’t need to say it everybody knows that you don’t want to stop the violence anywhere. The rest of the truth have been executed with Saddam, anyway you don’t have to know everything.
Wikipedia Page on Saddam’s Execution (Mobile)
Just wanted to wish happy Eid Adha for everyone, today there is only Jamret al Aqaba and Tawaf from Hadj rituals, and the “Tahalol”. The Jamarat bridge have been very well organized this year. Last year I was living about 100m from Jamarat, but this year I didn’t see it yet after changes. Many told me that it was impossible to walk in the opposite side, things that will help considerably to reduce accidents over the bridge, also it’s not allowed at all to take any bags on the bridge. Some friends just finished today’s rituals told me that yesterday was freezing in Muzdalifa and Mena, the same in Arafa by night, even inside sleeping bags grrr. Well, really it was freezing by night even at home. So tomorrow will be the first day of Al-Tachriq, the weather is hot again hopefully until Wednesday.
Today is the first day of Hadj 1427, called “Tarwiya”. Everybody spend the day in Mena and pray there Dhohr, Asr, Maghreb, Isha, and Fajr of Friday. And after that direction to Arafat, which is the most important day of Hadj. Certainly the first day is for praying but also for resting because the distance from Mena to Arafat is the longest one, and then by night you have to go back to Muzdalefa and spend the night there, to go back to Mena the day after. I’m not sure but I think there is about 15km to walk only tomorrow. Of course there is means of transports for organized groups, but it’s faster to walk 
I took the pict this morning while going to my office around 9am, the sky is very clear as you can see but it was a little freezing. From that point there is between 2.5 and 3km until the beginning of Mena. The weather next week will be excellent inchallah until Wednesday, and I think it’s going to rain like the previous years.
There is a new post on Slashdot titled Newest Energy Source on the usage of algae as a source of biodiesel. I was surprised, maybe worried, that everybody seems to welcome this new source without any problem, after all you can get 10,000 gallons per acre for algae compared to 75 to 125 gallons for canola or 50 to 60 gallons for Soybeans. Well, the usage of algae as source of energy isn’t new at all for energetists and bio-energetists, and when the news sources talk about environmental benefits I have to stop there and understand what they mean but benefits. Thought I’m not understanding what is this all about.
Biodiesel is known also as alky1 ester4 in chemistry, it’s properties are close to petroleum diesel fuel as shown in the figure below :
Continue reading Algae, Biodesel and Environment
I find it a little funny that two top stories on PHPMagazine.net today are about Microsoft :
This have been said, Microsoft declared quarterly dividend, a dividend of $0.10 per share payable in March. I’m not sure if that’s lot of money for shareholders.
Until Houssein come back from holidays and renew the domain name, the Tunisian blogosphere is officially homeless.
Yesterday I was hearing helicopters surrounding in the sky, I thought it was normal since it’s Hadj season and they are maybe doing some preparations or so. But by night I heard at the barber that there was fire in an hotel close to the Haram, about 20m from the one which falls down last year in Gaza. The hotel was holding 2300 Hadj from Yemen, and I was a little worried because there was many hotels for Tunisians there. But fortunately the news confirmed today that there was no death registered, only 11 cases have been transferred to Zaher hospital for suffocation and they will be released today after being sure that they are alright. One of them is Tunisian, her name Hbiba Tlili and she’s fine now in the same hospital.
Notice that the Firefighters station is in Gaza about 200m away from the hotel itself, and there is another one about 500m in the same direction. This time officials announced the name of the hotels owner Adel Ktan, who have been forbidden from leaving the country.
Source AlWatan Newspaper
A friend asked me yesterday an intelligent question : What’s Christmas ? Personally I never asked myself the question, because I always thought that it was the celebration of the traditional birth date of Jesus. But my question is, why is it on December 25th and not on January 1st ? I thought that the Gregorian Calendar was based on Jesus birth date, so in this case should we say that Jesus was born 6 days before JC ??? Or does the Gregorian year begin on December 25th, so why celebrating the January 1st ? Maybe it’s better to call it a new administrative year as we do in Tunisia, otherwise I think it’s lot of confusion !
