Project Management Body Of Knowledge third edition or PMBOK, is around 400 pages and very general and complete. The book talk about any kind of project things that make it much more interesting for me. The only problem that I’m currently working in a Weak Matrix organisation, so there is no real project management, just anything that could be changed anytime, and could be compared to anything but project management. Hopefuly I’m not the PM here !

Anyway, many consider the book difficult or not very well written, it’s very technical I agree. Maybe because I used to read more complex engineering things in university that I don’t conisder it that hard. In both cases, you can’t imagine that the PMBOK becomed ANSI easily, and standard are not always the solution but it is just tools that could serve in real life.

Have a look and if you think passing the exam, just enjoy the PMBOK !

After lot of trials, I found a much more better solution, and more accessible one, which was based on VNC. Since I already run a VNC server on m ubuntu, the implementation was more than easier. I just had to install Win2VNC  on the winxp box and configure it to connect to the ubuntu VNC server. You have just to enable remote desktop on ubuntu from System > Preferences > Remote Desktop, and be sure to add a good password :

There is nothing else to do, I just removed keyboard and mouse from ubuntu and now using only one keyboard and a single mouse to work on both PCs. There is more solutions that you can do, but I found this one the easiest.

U.S. Senator Herb Kohl have sent last month an antitrust inquiry asking for explanation about this price rising. Verizon did not provide any explanation and I don’t think if there are any. Kohl wrote :

Also of concern is that it appears that each of companies has changed the price for text messaging at nearly the same time, with identical price increases, This conduct is hardly consistent with the vigorous price competition we hope to see in a competitive marketplace.

Therefore, I specifically ask each of your companies to explain why text messaging rates have dramatically increased in recent years. Please explain the cost, technical, or any other factors that justify a 100% increase in the cost of text messaging from 2005 to 2008.

What do you think ?

Actually I’m still working on e-Government projec, and between the lines coding two new big projects. The first is a business solution that I’m developping in a partnership with an IT company here, and the second is a mobile social network that you probably heared about it somewhere on this blog (I might have forgot to post it otherwise ) or elsewhere (who knows ?!).

Most of my others projects are in stand by, starting with OpenHandset Magazine, ITACTU, … etc. I’m also out of Storage and have to move to a bigger server soon, and of course moving from $120 monthly to something like $180 monthly at least, while I’m not really ready to pay an extra $750 yearly.

In the mean timeI’m trying also to study - surprisingly- and get certified in some specific fields. I have already bought a book from Amazon,  and few other kits to prepare certification exam that I’m currently working on them. It’s very hard to manage all these jobs, in addition to my family and studies, but I hope to find time to breathe ! I want to apologize to all people who sent emails and didn’t get any  answer yet, my mailbox is more than overwhelmed, but I’m trying to manage daily time to answer so just be patient.

Happy Eid !

She looks very quiet, calm, and most certainly very spoiled. Here is some Photos that I took today. (more…)

My car is annoying me as usual with a silly new battery that kept me home during almost the whole Friday. We usually go out the weekend, but it could happen that we spend the last two weekends at home for a reason or another.

Today the program at home also, but today we are going to celebrate something special, I don’t know how to call it, but it is usually called birthday. That’s it, today I’m Thirty !

Since I’m announcing nothing here for long time, I wanted to profit and announce something very special that is going live in about two weeks in US. It’s the first public beta of the next generation of Mobile Social networks : Amigolo ! I have been working silently on this project for many years and currently doing the latest checking to be 99.9% ready for launch.  Four domain extensions have been registered for the project : com, net, org and mobi. Amigolo is more than a social network, it’s everything lazy people like me will need in their mobile phones to make business, keep in touch with their families or friends.

Stay Tuned !

• Dual Quad-Core Xeon
• 1GB DDR2 ECC 667 RAM
• 30GB on SAS/SCSI
• 10Mbps Dedicated Unmetered
• Hardware RAID 5 Configuration

The server migration is in progress and I’ll update this post as soon as it will be up - it should be done without interruption. So you will probably notice service getting better in the next days, or that’s my hope !

Update : Server upgrade terminated. Almost everything is okay. Below the current service status :

Those who know already driving can take the 5 days package, people who don’t know anything at all - like myself - have a 20 days package. In these 20 days I took only 17, and every week there are two days for road signs. More annoying in these courses that you feel yourself in the primary school, more than two absences are not allowed, courses start from 4h30 until 20h30 including two pauses of half an hour or something for Maghreb and Isha prayer.

Only Nissan cars there (Sunny and Altima), and the exam is always on the Altima only. We drive in a closed place only inside the school, and it’s there also where the exam take place. So you won’t have to exceed 30km/h in any case. I got the chance to drive the Altima few time before the exam, and the last day they took us to Arafat in a larger place, where we can change speed more freely and can reach 70km/h.

The exam itself didn’t took more than 5min, the officer took my file then asked me to drive. Then okay, go to the computers room for road signs exam, the most easy exam ever. I finish it in two minutes then went to work. Tomorrow morning my driving license will be ready. I’m just happy ! Now moving to next step and finding a suitable car :-/