Archive for October, 2006
New Wordpress releases
So the people over at Wordpress have two new releases:
WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one.
And
bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as tagging, RSS feeds, […]
Posted: October 23rd, 2006 under General, Blogs.
Comments: 3
Development in Egypt
So I was searching The Daily Star’s (Egypt) website for some trivial tid-bit when I came across this article in the Opinions & Editorials Section.
The author’s name caught my eye for some reason I didn’t comprehend. After a bit (20 minutes) of racking my memory, I thought that she might have been someone I mentioned […]
Posted: October 22nd, 2006 under Opinion, Government, Egypt, Economics & Trade.
Comments: 1
Egypt: De-centralization par excellence!
So I discovered lately that I was gravely mistaken in accusing, or even thinking that, the Government of Egypt follows traditional centralization techniques when it comes to power, as per the unwritten laws of authoritarian governments.
Why?
Hossam El-Hamalawy discusses the issue of Egyptian Security Forces apprehending, incarcerating and torturing leftist activists of El-Arish (Capital of the […]
Posted: October 19th, 2006 under Egyptian Politics, Activism, Repression, HR Abuses, Leftists.
Comments: none
My favourite things
I was tagged by Isabelle of istas to list my 15 favourite things, or so I understood. I don’t usually do tags… but what the hell.
And thus… here they are:
Kissing.
My girl-friend (She might be reading this!)
A good Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novel (AKA The Dune Series).
History books… and books about the Military. (So that’s 2 in 1, er…)
My […]
Posted: October 4th, 2006 under General, Blogs, Personal.
Comments: 5