offline ?

Most probably I'm taking this blog offline.

for a while at least!

I hate when people just stop blogging, so what I am doing here is telling you that this is going to be offline for a while (well actually not updated)!

Vote Please

I'm participating in this photography competition where a portrait should be posted.

This is my nephew Khalid, I'd appreciate your support.

ps... bigger image size is available here

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Google Chrome Review

Everybody is talking about the new Google Chrome, I had my try with it. My feedback is somewhere in the middle, not very positive neither a negative one.

First I would like to mention that everything I would say is relative to available widely used browsers and I mean (Firefox and IE7) - unless stated otherwise.

Let me start with the positive stuff I found.
- Larger space for browsing and less for other distractions : at first this gave the impression of "is that it?!" but I guess simplicity is the key sometimes.
- Lightweight : I had three tabs open that day and only 39 MB of RAM were occupied, that is satisfying.
- Each tab runs on its own process : This is the everyone-talking-about feature, which is announced on IE8.
- Incognito mode : In this mode every site you visit and every search you make isn't stored, so you are in the shadows (happy happy Arab countries! more porn more privacy!).
- Does run a lot of web sites smoothly without wrong alignment as the beginnings of Firefox.
- Loads pages in a more stable manner : you don't get half the images loaded and the other not (on same connection speed this happens on the other browsers).

What I didn't like about Chrome.
- No Google toolbar! : How come, I can't understand. Those who use Google Bookmarks (me) what should we do :S!.
- Connection issues : Failed to get it to work behind a proxy, the settings open the built in IE connection settings, that I didn't like myself.
- Doesn't support AJAX as it should : well some heavy AJAX sites failed to work properly.
- Slow surfing speed : I didn't feel the speed of browsing as you would with Opera browser for example.
- No Add-ons
- Not a lot of features to customize the user experience : This should be a good place to work at.


PS... this is a personal review and shouldn't be considered as a thorough technical one.

First Jordanian Oscar!

  Captain Abu Ra'ed is officially the first Jordanian submission to the foriegn film category at the oscars :)

  That does sound interesting. Best of luck (y)

Diet please

Well being active today, I have loads of ideas sketched inside the drafts and I am not finding the time to bring them into public.

You find this (usually a girl) at McDonald's for example where she goes for a big mac - if you Google "big mac calories" you'll be getting a direct answer of 540 - I would assume a regular size which would add few hundred calories from the fries.

Well I am not judging or looking as in nagging about that, but why on earth after all that she/he goes for a diet coke :S??