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Google Again

If Google Earth knocked your mind out, check out street view.

And while you are at it, why dont you check out Tashkeel http://tashkeel.googlelabs.com/

look at how google will let you write Arabic Chat language and display it in Arabic writing with Tashkeel. Amazing!

By the way, if you just want to use chat language and get it transformed to Arabic, you can use Microsoft Free software called Maren http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/egypt/cmic/maren/

It will allow you to write 3ammar and while writing it will transform to عمار on the fly (but without tashkeel)

enjoy and keep you eye open to what Google is planning, me think it is going to be the next Microsoft

Finally

I have been yearning for this Eid Vacation so intensely, not only because it a global feast, but mainly because it also marked the end of the Jordan Parliamentary elections. Like the situation of electoral candidates, the last period was exasperating, But for me, it was for a different reason. I was not a candidates, but i was responsible for running the software infrastructure for the entire election process. It was a nightmarish experience! the logistics, the scale, the criticality, the performance etc , Just about 4000 users are connecedt directly to the central server and to the software we have created. But thank God, it is now part of the past and it went well.

for a whole month we worked real hard, days and night preparing for that one day 9/11/2010.

as part of demonstrating relief, we are going to our apartment at Tala Bay in Aqaba tomorrow morning, a step that will definitely annoy El-sha3shabonat that i am sure are enjoying the apartment that we paid for.

Dinner for Schmucks

A movie that will make you laugh.

note that the word Schmuck means something that i dont dare to dwell upon (in the Yiddish language)

lunch time

I was in the mood for Humos today during the lunch hour.

The above statement conveys two pieces of information;the first is the trivial fact that I was craving Humos, and the other is the fact that there is a lunch hour in my life. Not interesting, nor important. In fact, nothing to write about! (btw, after all these years, I still have to think when I use the word "write", cuz frequently I get it mixed up with "right"). More relevant to the post is the fact that our lunch hour is from 2 to 3 pm.

At around 2:13 we were passing through Gardens Str. and thought that we might as well indulge in a lavish portion of humos topped with hot sauce soaked in olive oil with a round of falafel and mint tea at Kalha. After the ordinary challenge, we found parking and headed into the restaurant, only to find Kalhas do not serve between 2 and 3 pm; you can take sandwiches (safari style). I was stunt, immobilized, and for a moment, almost speechless, then felt stupid. For the longest time, we must have picked the wrong time slot for the lunch hour. How can it be right when it does not coincide with the time set by those whose main business activity is to offer lunch for us.

Things must have changed around me, while I was left in total stagnation. When do Jordanians have their lunch?

P.S. After the moment of astonishment and anguish passed by, I was able to ask the question of whether the situation was just an intermittent and temporally loss of service, but the answer was that every day during this time slot, they cleaned up the place

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What is the appropriate lunch time

I was in the mood for Humos today during the lunch hour.

The above statement

On the Road again

I have been on the road lately and pretty actively. What I mean here is traveling and not bike riding. Just before Eid, I had to spend a couple of days a Kuwait for the Kuwait University Admission software, then during Eid Vacation, we spent a splendid five days vacation in Istanbul (during which the Turkish people turned out to cast their votes in a referendum for constitutional changes which went in favor of the Current PM Erdogan,, who incidentally, currently sees his country's interest leaning towards amicable relationships with the Islamic world). Then Today I am in a very short trip to Tripoli, Libya. I have arrived this afternoon, will have a meeting, and will be heading back to Amman tomorrow. The story does not end here, I have other planned trips to both KSA and Yemen soon. The short-term outlook seems to include moderate on-the-road activities.

ammar

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Eid Saeed

I wish every body a warm Eid holiday and many happy returns
Me and other family will spend the Eid holiday in Istanbul

ammar

Cylcing for Gaza - Funds needed

It is now official

In solidarity with the people of Gaza, I am particiapting in a fund raising cycling event.

Cycling 4 Gaza aims to raise awareness about the ongoing suffering in Gaza by bringing together a group of people from all over the world each year to cycle across continents, with the ultimate aim of reaching Gaza. (www.cycle4gaza.com).

Last year, Cycling 4 Gaza brought together 27 people of all ages and backgrounds to take part
in the challenge of cycling from London to Paris. We covered over 300 km in 3 days, and raised
over £90,000 for Medical Aid for Palestinians in support of their healthcare projects in Gaza.
These included emergency maternal and newborn healthcare, specialist burns care training, and training staff in primary trauma care. This year, and
Between the 29th of September and the 2nd of October, we will be embarking on a tough hysical and mental challenge, cycling from Pisa to Rome in just 4 days.

If you can provide financial help kindly email me at ammar.sajdi@gmail.com

Sudoku

Like me, you are most likely inclined to believing Sudoku is some kind of an ancient Japanese game. In fact it was created by an American architect Howard Garns.
Garns was born in Connersville, Indiana, and by his teens had moved to Indianapolis with his father, W. H. Garns, an architect. He attended Indianapolis Technical High School (now known as Arsenal Technical High School or Tech High School) and graduated in 1922. He entered the University of Illinois, and received a Bachelor of Science in architectural engineering in 1926.
The game was initially called Number Place and. Number Place gained popularity in Japan in the eighties. Garns dies before Su Doku became popular on the global realm

Android -- Cannot afford not to learn

It is enough to know that Android mobile platform sales have overtaken that of iPhone, coupled with the ubiquity of cell phones, the backing of the corporate giant "Google", the excitement of open source, and the support of Open Handset Alliance members like Intel, TI, T-Mobile, and NTT DoCoMo makes a perfect recipe for this OS to rule supreme.
That was enough to spark my curiosity to explore my new toy; Android development
Download Eclipse, Android SDK, and a few tutorials from the net, and you are all set to prepare yourself for a new generation of mobile computing. Trust me on this one

Ammar Sajdi

Ammar Sajdi

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