Author: Ahmed

Many years ago, I remember a time when a whole bunch of open source software reached the elusive 1.0 stable release. This […]

This message, like the last one, is being posted using my Nokia Communicator, via Ufone’s GPRS service. I called Ufone support multiple […]

Eid greetings to all, especially those who didn’t get my email or SMS. After 30 days of Ramadan fasting, as well as […]

The Eid, or post-Ramadan celebration, holidays are here and we should be celebrating Eid either on Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on our […]

These days, a much bigger part of my day is spent on fixing the damage caused by spam. It isn’t that much […]

It seems that quite a few bloggers have posted their tributes to those that perished in last year’s quake. I seem to […]

It was a year ago, October 8th, 2005, that one of the deadliest quakes in history struck this region, leaving over 73,000 […]

It’s finally here: A great day for all fans of the oldest surviving Linux distribution – after an unusually long testing and […]

It’s that time again. After the disappointment at finding an ideal phone that could take decent pictures as well as easily balance […]

Via BoingBoing: this python swallowed a pregnant sheep and then couldn’t move off the road. More info here together with a mention […]