UAE residents cannot tweet anymore. After banning Flickr and Orkut, the UAE government decided to block Twitter.
Disabling social networks is becoming increasingly popular in some parts of the world. Many blogs, UAE or nonUAE, are reporting that the government might block Facebook in the near future.
Omg omg omg more of those great Web 2.0 fun videos. I LOVE this 🙂 I wish I can think of something so innovative like this.
Chances are, if you are reading tech news, you have heared of flash player update being tested several weeks ago. The new Flash Player update code named “Moviestar” is now available in the wild.
The news cache mechanisem is a new feature which makes Flex applications feels lighter and faster. It also supports multicore processors which should enhance the flash playback experience in client side. And as previously stated, it also supports H.264 video codec and ACC audio codec. It also officially supports Leopard OS and Linux x86.
More information about this release available in the release note.
Lately, I have been talking a lot. That’s not the normal me, usually my relatives (especially my parents) are complaining about me not talking with them or discussing anything. The reason I start talking more is because a good friend moved his desk to a lab I spend many hours a day sometimes there and it is really awkward not to chat to him from time to time. Another reason is because I’m being a part of a student society in my college and they like to ask me some stuff about computers.
Anyway, that wasn’t my point. I have a problem pronouncing the letter ‘R’ which is called lisp! I knew I had this problem since I was a kid, but I never thought about it much because I’m not used to talk much. However, now I’m a part of a society and I’m really shy to talk to anyone and I couldn’t manage to fix my lisp. I have been trying to pronounce my last name (ends with R, lol) many times but I can’t manage to get it right in English and Arabic (there is an Arabic letter close to R). I had a problem with people sometimes when giving my last name lol. I searched the web but I couldn’t find anything helpful to cure my lisp.
If anyone got any resources available online or how to overcome this problem please let me know :).
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2007 for Arab and North Africa Regional Contest [ACM–ICPC/ANARC] starts today (03-12-2007). This year ANARC will be held in the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Egypt. The winner will move to the world finals which will take place in Alberta, Canada, in April.
ANARC contest will be held in Wednesday 05-12-2007 and will last exactly five hours. Every team will be given the same set of problems to solve in Java and C/C++. The award ceremony will take place the same day few hours after the contest where the winner will be announced.
Me and my teams were suppose to participate in this contes but we faced some problems.
Found this article about programmers looking for job. The first part of the article is about the phone interview. The poster will discuss about the face-to-face interview on other parts in the future.
That reminds me of my part-time job phone interview 1 month ago. The Sun campus manager called me directly from UK, overseas, to do the interview and it went really well. I’m happy that I’ll be working for Sun as a Sun Campus ambassador. Sun Microsystems after all is an open source alliance member and they are the one maintaining the Java language which I really love.
I might have posted this video before [Am I a video freak?]… But what the heck! It’s fun to watch again!
YAY! Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the launch a new website dedicated to provide free online resource for anyone anywhere. You can now watch more than 2,600 videos and audio clips online taken from real lectures for free and for everyone! The website is based on OpenCourseWare (OCW) which provides free lecture notes, exams, and other resources for more than 1,800 real courses.
That a fabulous new for me. Now, it is easier to study whatever I want and whatever I like (if available) with all these resources from MIT. It’s easier to study and find more information for my college courses!!
If you have been reading news lately, you might know that Wael Abbas, a journalist who posted videos about police brutality and tutored in Egypt. He got his account shut down on YouTube and few other websites such as Yahoo. After a week of international pressure, YouTube finally agrees to restore his account. Here’s the YouTube official response to Fox News:
“Having reviewed the case, we have restored the account of Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas — and if he chooses to upload the video again with sufficient context so that users can understand his important message we will of course leave it on the site.”
