http://snefru.thetobril.com Or "The way I see it" Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:44:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cairene has a critical piece that really touches on the true essence of freedom and democracy since he apparently dislikes the Muslim Brotherhood as much as I. http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/11/03/democracy/ Today is the 34th anniversery of the much-acclaimed (in Egypt) 6th of October war (which took place in 1973). The 6th of October is, and has been, a National Holiday since the war. It is also the day that former Egyptian president Anwar El-Sadat was assassinated by a group of ... http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/10/06/the-war-we-fought/ There are times when people use the exact wrong words to express themselves. An example of this is this post by Egyptian-Australian blogger Neferteeti. So the Egyptian government, or administrative court according to an article she cited in her post, passed another decision which reflects the general religious intolerance of ... http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/05/19/when-people-get-things-wrong/ Two interesting things came to my knowledge in the past day. The first was through personal experience and the second was something that a friend told me about. They may be inconsequential to some (my friends certainly thought so), but I found them worthy of mention. First thing I went down to ... http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/04/29/freedom/ Is it my fault that the only reason I sit at ahwas downtown is because they're readily accessible to me and my friends and not because of any cultural reason or excuse? Is it my fault that I don't want to attend all these "really cool" foreign movies that are ... http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/04/23/is-it-my-fault/ Another personal post, my second in a row in fact. On Wednesday the project I work for officially closes down and on Thursday I am officially out of a job. Maybe this will mean more time for blogging? At least until I get another job. http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/02/25/wednesday-day-of-reckoning/ I've been tagged by N to list "five things you don't know about me". I will suppose the you here means my blog readers. Alrighty then. Here goes: Even though this is a pseudo-political blog, I would much rather discuss AD&D and Fantasy/Sci-Fi than politics. I am very easily deceived (Batbe3et keteer!). I ... http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/02/19/tagged/ A friend of mine, Yasmine Adel, wrote this and I thought it was definitely worth publishing: My hand didn't touch his as I handed him the money. He thanked me and turned around. He didn't notice that I saw him do it. Saw him kissing the money before putting it into the pocket of ... http://snefru.thetobril.com/2007/01/27/ahmed-sabry/ Picked this up from Izzy's Blog. (Anti-semitism related caricatures) Good stuff girl. http://snefru.thetobril.com/2006/11/30/anti-semetism/ 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, ... http://snefru.thetobril.com/2006/10/23/new-wordpress-releases/