August 2004

Dead Couple to Be Married

by Haitham Sabbah August 30, 2004

A South African man who shot his pregnant fiancée dead before killing himself will be posthumously married to her at the weekend. Source: Reuters

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A bacteria-eating virus is the star of a new video that could help researchers learn the secrets of viral infection and thereby develop better gene therapies. Researchers at Purdue University combined traditional crystallography and cryoelectron microscopy with imaging software to create detailed pictures of a virus called T4. The Purdue scientists also made a video [...]

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Web Hosting Service

by Haitham Sabbah August 28, 2004

I’m searching for a low budget, reliable web hosting service. Minimum requirements are: Disk Space – 1GB Linux on Apache 10 GB Monthly Transfer (~1,000,000 hits) Control Panel Virtual Host Management Password Protect Directories FrontPage Extensions FTP Access Anonymous FTP Unlimited Email Accounts Webmail Javascript SSH Access CGI Bin Unlimited MySQL Database MySQL Administration Tool/ [...]

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Saudi Arabian Women’s Rights

by Haitham Sabbah August 28, 2004

After watching for so many years, I have more than enough reasons to be more than slightly suspicious of anything that appears in the Arab News. And with that disclaimer, I present the latest evidence of social change in Saudi Arabia, as an Arab News writer reveals that women are human beings! Just like him, [...]

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CBS: Possible Israeli Spy in Pentagon

by Haitham Sabbah August 28, 2004

CBS News reports that the FBI is investigating a possible Israeli spy in the Pentagon. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI believes Israel has a spy at the very highest level of the Pentagon who may have sought to influence U.S. policy on Iran and Iraq, CBS News reported on Friday. The Israeli embassy immediately denied [...]

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Palestinian Daily Olympics

by Haitham Sabbah August 28, 2004

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“Ben & Jerry” on US Federal spending

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2004

Ben Cohan made an very cute but informative animation on US Federal spending in support of truemajorityaction.org. Check it out :-)

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Update – Arab Blogger Community

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2004

Quills is still on beta, no stable release yet. I’m reluctant to use it. However the Zope platform seems to be very advance and sophisticated and promising. I was amazed by the number of products (more than 200, many other webloges) they support, I wish I had my own test-bed server to run this Python [...]

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Arab Blogging Community

by Haitham Sabbah August 25, 2004

It is petty to admit that we; in the Middle East are very poor in organizing our effort in driving WWW towards globalization (our globalization). Isam was searching from Arab Blogger for some time, I also did same for a while, sometimes succeeded, most-of-the-times failed to find them. The problem is that our coders wizards [...]

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Electricity goes off across Bahrain as temperatures soar

by Haitham Sabbah August 23, 2004

To make things worse on me :-( MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Electricity went out across Bahrain on Monday, leaving people without air conditioning on a day when temperatures were expected to reach 130, snarling rush hour traffic and sending businesses and the U.S. Navy to their generators. The cause of the outage was not immediately [...]

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Hello world!

by Haitham Sabbah August 23, 2004

Sorry everyone! I had a major breakdown on the server side. I’m trying now to recover that and will try to be up ASAP.

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How to Make Your Own Natural Disaster

by Haitham Sabbah August 21, 2004

Forces of Nature not only looks at hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados, it helps you make your own. Nature? Gotta love it. Sunsets, flowers, majestic mountains, refreshing ocean breezes. But from time to time, even nature can have a bad day. Krakatoa is a good example. Hurricane Andrew is another. National Geographic’s Forces of Nature takes [...]

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Want safer buildings? Use ‘smart’ bricks

by Haitham Sabbah August 21, 2004

New ‘smart bricks’ are wired to signal buildings’ structural problems. Smart bombs. Smart drugs. Smart cards. And now … smart bricks. Equipped with electronic sensors, these clay-fired building blocks could make homes and office towers far more “intelligent” than today’s versions – and, quite possibly, safer. For example, smart-brick technology might have helped firefighters change [...]

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Singing Minister Disowns ‘Die, Bush’ Call

by Haitham Sabbah August 19, 2004

Brazil’s culture minister and singing superstar Gilberto Gil is not calling for the death of President Bush, whatever concert-goers might have thought. Gil, 62, took time off from his government role this weekend to play shows in Sao Paulo, treating fans to many of his own classics as well as songs by Bob Marley and [...]

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Car-Tracking Device (GSM/GPS Wireless) Trades Privacy for Dollars

by Haitham Sabbah August 19, 2004

Imagine this. You’re driving around in your HOV (highly ostentatious vehicle), and you follow your normal route home. The next day, you are notified by your insurance company: “Under the terms of Court Order 34/FKC/34 paragraph 12 subsection iii, your auto insurance is void.” It turns out that you drove within a mile of the [...]

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