Brains Made in China

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

After the Chinese cars that will be assembeled here.

I would like to present to you, the Chinese university, here is an excrept:

China and Egypt on Sunday signed an agreement on establishing the Egyptian Chinese University (ECU) in Cairo, the first Chinese university to be set up in the Middle East region.

Now, I can't really understand why do we need this. May be for business studies and technology. Which Americans, Germans, British, Canadians …

Hepatitis C

Here are some depressing facts about Hepatitis C in Egypt.

Updates on personal matters

in «Blogging & Personal» by moftasa

Well, I didn't blog about myself since this post. Three days later I started my General Surgery rotation. It is two months long. I had 10 days in pediatric surgery. Not much work, but the operations are very cool. Not enough to learn much though.

I learned lots of practical skills in the General Surgery and managed to see several operations. Unfortunately, the two months are approaching their end, and I didn't go to the …

CairoChanging

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

While writing this, I coined the term CarioChanging. I used it to describe a place (Sakia) that did change Cairo to the better and still has the potential to bring good things to this megapolis.

I borrowed the term from a very popular blog. Worldchanging. They describe their site as:

WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of …

How to search the Egyptian Blogs

in «Blogging & Personal» by moftasa

Here is how to search the Egyptian Blogosphere. I guess this would be very useful.

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Go to feedster advanced search, type your keyword and then add this OPML file in the space titled "Limit to feeds in this OPML URL".

screenshot of the service

UPDATE: the above photos is a bit old please use this url http://www.manalaa.net/aggregator2/opml

One more thing, feedster is a little bit strange. You will have to search every time from …

Blogsome is awesome

in «Blogging & Personal» by moftasa
Egyptian bloggers listen. You can now move away from blogger. Blogger is fine, there is nothing wrong with it, except that it has none of the features of a modern blog. And to add features, you have to subscribe to lots of third party services that transforms your blog to something similar to the back of a microbus.



Stop riding on the Sebensa

A new free service called blogsome gives you an installation of …

Cool new map service for Cairo

in «Local & Regional» by moftasa

UPDATE Service is down!

Cairo rejoice!

We are on the bleeding edge of information technology. We now have a map service that is updated, exact, detailed, bilingual, gives you driving directions and has information about all the spaghetti u-turns they have botched our roads with.

No more stuttering fools giving you wrong directions. No more outdated maps. No more wasting time finding street names or building numbers.

I am not going to get lost in …

Hard drive iPods will die soon

If I would like to buy a digital audio player today, I would go for an iPod. Its the dominant mp3 player in the world today. It can carry all my mp3 collection. It looks good and comes with a huge user base.

It's today cultural icon. Its white headphones can be spotted from a huge distance. It is not very cheap but it's a monster, that comes with up to 40GB of storage. So …

Kodak EasyShare cx7300

in «Blogging & Personal» by moftasa

I bought a cheap entry level point and shoot camera. It has no features other than it has a good CCD and Lens. For only 800 EGP this Kodak gives you a resolution of 3.2 Megapixels, not bad. I also bought a 256MB SD card so as to carry lots of photos.

Expect some photos here in the future. Part of the reason for buying this camera is that I feel this blog needs …