Two weeks ago, I discovered for the first time Stargate SG1 - Season 9 and Season 8, yeah it wasn’t too late ! I didn’t saw a really good science fiction since long time, and really I find it amazing and very addictive. I didn’t knew how come I haven’t notice it before ! I finished last week the season 8 (5 DVDs) and this week I’m already watching the season 9 and the DVD 5, that’s bad to see it over already. Sadri told me that seasons before are not that interesting, so now I’m waiting the season 10 then I’ll grab the Thinpak, I find it better than watching separate episodes.
Just announced today that Fuel 91 prices will be 0.45 SAR the liter by the beginning of the year in Saudi, prices remain unchanged for Octane 95 with 0.6 SAR the liter. The study made by Aramco predicted that 75% will go for the new fuel 91 while the rest will keep using the octane 95. I was stopped at something very very interesting in the study, is that 85% of the cars in Saudi don’t “need” the octane 91, and if I have well understood it mean : it’s better to use the octane 95 or your car will get in troubles. Anyway, I think it’s a good news for drivers 
Just announced officially that Arafa will be on December 29 and the Eid on December 30 inchallah. Best wishes for everybody for the Eid ! The 29 will be a great day here in Makkah because it’s not very common that the Arafa coincide with a Friday, and I’m sure that Hadj will be very special this year, like every year and even better.
Yesterday I was close to the Haram and I see lot of the Tunisians Hadj groups with their guides taking the Tunisian Flag in hand and wearing red tshirts Tunisia and hats. It’s amazing, even hotels decorated with the Tunisian flag, that you’ll feel yourself in Tunis because most of the hotels they take are very close to the Haram in Gaza or direction of the Umra Door.
Continue reading Arafa on 29 and Eid on December 30
Yesterday with the new Video and Podcasts features launched, Digg was down for the first time for more than two hours. You can see in the screenshot below Digg stuff recommending few reading until servers will be back.
And I just noticed today that I have been Dugg again, a post written in May 2006 on Firefox magazine. This is really great because I wanted to be sure if the new server will support high traffic or no, and happily it did served 9,996 unique visitors yesterday only and 14,352 page views. With all this, Digg contributed with only 28,77% of the whole traffic that’s Big. But still 40.58% of the traffic coming from Google.
This week I’ll be reading the Foundation of PEAR by Nathan A. Good and Allan Kent, the latest book released for PEAR published by Apress. It’s interesting to notice that the last period was very active in books for the PEAR community with two books previously published by Pakt publishing : PHP Programming with PEAR, by Stoyan Stefanov, Stephan Schmidt, Aaron Wormus and Carsten Lucke, and PEAR Installer Manifesto written by Gregory Beaver. Foundation of PEAR is more a reference book, which cover in its 640 pages all important PEAR packages with simple examples very well explained. I’ll post detailed review when I’ll finish it.
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A new album of Marcel Khalife have just been released on November 2006 titled Taqasim (Improvisations), a tribute and expression of fidelity from Marcel to Mahmoud Darwish, who marked his life and his music and compositions. The album is really magic with Marcel Khalife on Oud, Peter Herbert on bass and Bachar Khalife on percussion.
A new experience that I really loved just from the samples, and really can’t wait to hear the full album. The communication is very fluent between Percussion, Oud and Bass that will certainly take you to the world of poetry that Marcel wanted to dedicate this work. Only one thing I didn’t like in the album, is the name ! Taqasim is very “classic” as name, and it don’t refer to the sensitivity that chords are creating, nor to the fidelity that Marcel is expressing to Mahmoud Darwich.
Continue reading Marcel Khalife New Album Taqasim
Due to a spam attack this week and yesterday, I used to disable comments over the network temporarily and enable it again with some changes. So if you have posted comments between yesterday and today and the system told you that its awaiting moderation it is not, it is not and the comment have just been lost sorry. I have written a fast fix for the mt-comments.cgi but for an unknown reason the MT code still executed before my fix, I’m still investigating on this issue but sincerely I can’t understand how both codes could be executed in the if else clause. Any idea ?
if ( $referer =~ '' or $referer !~ m|^http://(.*).$hostname/| ) {
ban($visitor_ip);
} else {
use strict;
use lib $ENV{MT_HOME} ? "$ENV{MT_HOME}/lib" : 'lib';
use MT::Bootstrap App => 'MT::App::Comments';
}
Comments are now enabled again and hope this will be fixed before the next spam attack.
The chart shows the IP address space on a plane using a fractal mapping which preserves grouping — any consecutive string of IPs will translate to a single compat, contiguous region on the map. Each of the 256 numbered blocks represents 1/8 subnet (containing all IPs that start with that number). The upper left section shows the blocks sold directly to corporations and governments in the 1990’s before the RIRs took over allocation. Click on the image to see it full size.
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It happen that my personal email is spammed and spammers have access even on my personal information such name … etc. So few months ago I have found a trips to track spammers websites, and those who claim that they never share your email with third parties but they did it in your back ! The techniques is simple, I created an email that I currently use for website registrations, then for each website I use a different fake names that I choose randomly. Easy hein ? I’m keeping the registration emails in the Gmail archives to fill the 2Gig account, and it worked !
Now spam came with different names, so much fun ! A simple search and I can check that name is used on which website ! This work for the smart spammers, the stupid ones goes directly to the spam folder. As there is thousands of web 2.0 websites now launched every day, I can’t remember where I have registered to try the service. So hope this was helpful ! If you have better tip let me know
