Notre ami Sabri Mahjoub nous spamme chaque jour avec de jolis emails dans une mailing list privée. Aujourd’hui je vous fait part de l’email du jour.
Le mois dernier un sondage a été mené à l’échelle mondiale par l’ONU. La question était :
Veuillez donner honnêttement votre opinion sur d’éventuelles solutions à la pénurie de nourriture dans le reste du monde.
Le sondage a été un échec retentissant !!! En effet :
En Afrique personne n’a compris le sens du mot : Nourriture
En Europe de l’est personne n’a compris le sens du mot : honnêttement
En Europe de l’Ouest personne n’a compris le sens du mot : pénurie
En Chine personne n’a compris le sens du mot : Donner votre opinion
Au Moyen-Orient personne n’a compris le sens du mot : Solution
Aux Etats-Unis personne n’a compris le sens du mot : le reste du monde
I’m looking for database of world cities but with Latitude, Longitude, Altitude and timezone of every city. I checked many companies offering such service (commercial and free) but there are always something missing if it’s not the coordinates, it’s the altitude or timezone. The current database that I have from MaxMind include more than 2.6 million cities but missing the altitude (timezone can be calculated) and this is not of course the total world cities. History.com have latitude, longitude and altitude of US and Canadian cities but it’s not enough. I will be very grateful if anyone can help me on this.
His name Carlos Slim Helu, 67 years old, Mexican with Lebanese origin, he got cool private jet and he’s second world’s richest man with $53 billion. For someone holding about 7% of Mexico’s GDP and almost half the Mexican stock exchange’s $370 billion value and controls a horde of industries ranging from telecom to tobacco, he is totally unknown outside Mexico unlike Bill Gates or Waleed Bin Talal. [via Time]
If you are visiting Tunisia for the first time or if you are Tunisian and like many others who don’t know how to get from a destination to another in Tunis city or anywhere in the country, TNTN.info will probably help you. The service is a route finder, you select the first and the last destination and it will give you the different steps to follow to go there. For example from Ariana to Eljem :
1- Metro 2 from Ariana to Barcelone
2- Walk from Barcelone SNCFT train station
3- Train Tunis-Tatatouine until Eljem.
The service currently gives only static information, but expect in the future an integration with Google maps and more useful information. Did I mention that the service is French only ?
According to Xiti Monitor 18.8% of internet users in Tunisia use Firefox while this number is under 10% in Morocco and Algeria which respectively have 9.4% and 8.2%. The rating have been recorded for the week of March 5 to 11, 2007. There is no monthly rate for North African countries unfortunately, because a weekly rate can’t estimate very well the real number of Firefox users. Europe have around 25% which is excellent in my opinion with Slovenia (44.5%) and Finland (41.3%) on the top rate.
This is a great place to run a web server from : your Kitchen ! Great to serve some food and juice with your website. This is the server behind Dean.Edwards.Name. Very Geeky Fridge!!
Tomorrow will be held a Conference on Web 2.0 at King Abdulaziz University Jeddah presented by Alaa Eddine Halaq. I’ll be probably there from 6h to 8h, just curious to meet some active web 2.0 guys and hear some arabic vocabulary for IT. Below the conference flyer.
I’m a little off these days, but here is a quick roundup to not stay offline for long time :
- Abdel Karim (The mouse hunter) moved to http://karim2k.com
- Hatem Zidi (Tom) moved to http://hatemzidi.com
- Arabic food website updated with a larger layout http://arabic-food.org
- Someone bring me today a free mobily number (Postpaid) with 150min free national calls (not sure I’m going to use it)
- I just heard this week that Ali Sriti passed away, second big loss for the Tunisian music just six months after Benaljia.
- Mehdi just pointed me in comments to the new website of Boulbaba http://boulbabalansari.net
- Naturally Seven, a capella group, caught somewhere in France singing live in the metro In the air tonight (metro edition). Just amazing !!
It’s coming very soon this April, Ubuntu Studio will be the multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu. Anyone interested into linux audio, video and graphics, for fun or professional, be sure to keep an eye on this !
Ubuntu Studio aims to be a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional who is already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment. Ubuntu Studio is currently in planning. This page is the starting point for these plans.
