I am spending hours doing nothing except playing Sudoku. It is very addictive. I don't even want to write about it a lot. Just this breif post is sufficient, I am in the middle of solving a puzzle right now.

Read more about Sudoku.

UPDATE already started, thanks for Sabbah for the photo. More photos on flickr

In few minutes (sorry for not announcing earlier). The 2nd GlobalVoices summit will start. GVO Editors, bloggers and journalists will be participating.

You can join online by listening to the live webcast, check the live blog and live transcript. You can also ask questions on IRC.

Webcast: Click here to listen to the live webcast. Starting at 12:00pm Cairo time, Saturday …

Aljazeera responds to the leaked memo about US wanting to bomb their HQ using web 2.0 tools. They are blogging in first person narrative of personal stories just like bloggers do and allowing comments. They are using flickr. They are tagging the photos. They chose a creative commons license for their photos. And you can send them emails to their gmail account.

I wonder when will they store their video on archive.org, let …

I ran out of passport sized photos. I went to a professional photographer Kodak Spot to get my self a decent photo so I could use to apply for military education. Look if you don't know what is military education, don't ask. It is the most ridiculous thing ever.

And the photo sucks.

They stopped using celluloid film and SLRs. Instead, obviously to cut costs, they are using a cheap old Olympus digital camera. The …

Global Voices Online (GVO) won the best English language journalistic award in the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards!

Global Voices is a remarkable blog that brings the voices of international bloggers to the attention of the rest of the world. It is an organization launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Founded by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon.

!Goals of GVO:

1. To call attention to the most …

Was responsible for many bruises I have right now.

Today, windsurfing was fantastic, but really harsh for me. I returned home exhausted, fatigued and discovered a good number of bruises.

Anna should have docked in front of the Manesterly palace today. She is a Greenpeace sail boat, originally built in 1901, staying 3 days in Cairo to raise awareness about climate change.

Will we see the millennia old Nile valley looking like this, providing renewable …

I found about 300 Egyptian blogs not in the blogring. Most of the blogs are by Egyptians born or living in U.S. Many of them R stILL iN sCHOol dUDE with horrible graphics and style. Some even don't render properly and I think all of these blogs are not standard compliant. Despite this it is a little bit interesting reading how these young men and women are spending their time. They also post lots …

I have just finished reading the Handbook For Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents released today by Reporters Without Borders. The 86 pages PDF is easy to read, although written by several authors, most of the authors did a good job in this area.

Before I started reading it, I expected it to introduce people to blogging, lead the reader to start a blog easily and help him/her connect to the blogosphere.

The handbook was more than …

Wow, it is a superb feeling just as soon as the wind pushes your sail and your board start running fast on the surface of the water.

I am going to take windsurfing more seriously. I finished 3 courses till now. Although I don't stay for long on the board, those few minutes makes it incredibly addictive.

The first rush was in Dahab.

From now on. Small posts, more frequent blogging.

Google did it. A clone of technorati's service, but a googlized version of it. It is quite neat and very responsive. Well it feels like any other google service.

http://blogsearch.google.com/

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