Archive for the 'Fun' Category

Dec
21

Just discovered this new website today via Sadri, its purpose is to create your own city. Kind of web-based Sim City but where you don’t have to worry about the city at all, just invite your friends and the city will increase its population by itself. I have created two cities Ezzahra and Djerba. There is a bulletin board with every city to interact with your city population. I just created the two cities so someone else won’t register it in another country, otherwise I don’t think it will be really fun. What do you think of such service ?

Ezzahra City

Jul
29

Sabri just reported a new possible malware ANTIHOST.EXE, from Prevx :

The filename ANTIHOST.EXE was first seen on Jun 21 2007 in TUNISIA.

Antihost

Jul
23

I noticed that some arabic translations of some IT words are weird, others are very funny !

For example how to write gmail in arabic ? it’s : الجميل (the beautiful)
And you maybe know Joomla CMS, in arabic it become جملة (sentence)

Do you know others ?

Jul
02

Yesterday one of our colleagues invited everybody for a dinner, somewhere in a desert place near Makkah, I just remember that it was outside the Haram limit of Makkah, not sure if it has a name. Meeting at 8pm, we went together to destination, the guide’s car first. The place was very nice, clean, prepared for such “jalsat”, only missing there a swimming pool and a gsm antenna. The problem in such places that the network is very low, mobily network doesn’t work at all, but there is a chance to get Jawal network at certain places only.

Mobile call center

I took a picture of the “mobile place”, that’s where network is available. To make a call you have to turn on the speakers, and it works fine, the problem is when two are calling in the same time… :-) Anyway the dinner was great, even that it was so dark and didn’t see anything, but kabsa should be always the same :-) There was around 30 persons including kids, and 11 cars, our boss was there with his three kids so this morning it was tolerated to come working even at 10am :D some lucky ones are still sleeping until now zzzZZZ

Jun
10

I first discovered Lost series with the launch of MBC action, but I felt jealous when Mehdi told me that he’s at season 3 episode 18. While mbc action still slowly broadcasting the first season, I ordered Lost DVDs from amazon and it was lots of fun because there was a french translation.

Lost season 1

Today I’m at the season 3 episode 10, and will probably finish the third season by the end of the week, but this is going to become annoying because season four, which will feature 16 episodes, is planned for February 2008. Until that time there are Dexter, Prison Break (thanks to Hannibal TV for broadcasting twice a week), and the season ten of Stargate SG1. Other suggestions anyone ?!

May
22

This is something a friend send me last week, so much fun !! I don’t know the name of the poet, but I’m sure you will love it too :-)


May
07

Bush as usual showing how silly he really is when he was welcoming today the Queen Elizabeth II he added 2 centuries to her quite respectable 81 years, he said that her last visit was “in 17 … er 1976″ !!! I guess she was not amused at all. Source Yahoo.

Funny Bush

Apr
30

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

Apr
16

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!!

Kitchen’s Web Server

Apr
11

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 !!