Archive for August, 2007

The LA Times has an article about Ahmed Oweidi, an ex-MP who is head of a small political party, Jordan National Movement. I used to receive a lot of emails from their website for some reason and I guess they put me on a mailing list. I am pretty much at odds with a lot, [...]

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We’ve been working hard to reshape the way our little digital project, 7iber, looks and functions. There are still tweaks to be made here and there but the gist of it is up and running. I’d appreciate any feedback I can get on both style and content of the site. A survey is in the [...]

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After all this time. After a great deal of frustration. After years of no archiving and broken links. After years of a design that looked like it was created when the Internet was born. Jordan Times gets a facelift. Yes ladies and gentleman, the one and only Jordan Times has a new website that actually [...]

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For Fad

11Aug07

She is a confidant and a comrade. She is a Trekkie and a sci-fi junkie. She is a leo or a lion in the body of a cat. And she almost always has my back. She is my “anonymous source”. She is a great hugger and an excellent punching bag. She bruises like a peach. [...]

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So it’s becoming a bigger story now on the blogosphere, Iraqis in a prison at the Queen Alia Airport, where they are interrogated for hours, whipped by the evil Jordanians, then put in a cage with lions and those who are lucky enough to survive the ordeal are sent back to Iraq to die. It [...]

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Spider Pig

09Aug07
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During the recent Municipal elections I think some people misunderstood my intentions when it came to voting. This is based on comments, emails and remarks I received online and offline. I was planning on writing this post long before all that but I figured I’d take the opportunity and kill two birds with one post. [...]

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Last month Pulp Magazine ran a one-pager listing the top blogs in Jordan. This was met with some eager responses from the blogosphere, specifically those people whose names were mentioned in the first place. Our dear friend Bakkouz posted a summary of the “Real” top bloggers according to Technorati ranking, which is more or less [...]

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