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Archive for August, 2004

Dead Couple to Be Married

Monday, August 30th, 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

When Viruses Attack

Monday, August 30th, 2004

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 that [...]

Web Hosting Service

Saturday, August 28th, 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/ phpMyAdmin
PHP 4
Perl 5
CRON Management Tools
Server Side DNS Changes
Mailing Lists
SpamGuard
Sub Domains
Domain Parking

I wish to host my five [...]

Saudi Arabian Women’s Rights

Saturday, August 28th, 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, almost: [...]

CBS: Possible Israeli Spy in Pentagon

Saturday, August 28th, 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 [...]

Palestinian Daily Olympics

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

“Ben & Jerry” on US Federal spending

Friday, August 27th, 2004

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

Update - Arab Blogger Community

Friday, August 27th, 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 [...]

Arab Blogging Community

Wednesday, August 25th, 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 are [...]

Electricity goes off across Bahrain as temperatures soar

Monday, August 23rd, 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 clear. [...]