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Sometimes I stare in front of your 'Submit story' page for hours. I write something very personal in it. A story that will expose my weaknesses and imperfections. A feeling that is naive or childish. Or just plain foolishness I have done. It is important to me to confess and to let it all out. But I never click submit. I delete it and do something else. I think we are not good …

Alaa sent a number of SMSs from the sit in. Since he couldn't set up his blog to do the same due to Vodaphone putting restrictions on international SMS. These SMS appeared as published posts on the front page of this blog.

I removed the posts from the front page, but they are still accessible.

Some messages got truncated.

Sit in over we marched to syndicates security harased us tried to grab my camera setling in lawyers syndicate

wraping up took down the huge flag and the green thingy that is supposed to represent judges sash security cars gathering one broke we helped push it

cairo slowly waking and we can feel her yawn and as lovers we hover over her face turned evey twitch waiting for the magical moment when she smiles at us

Slowly waking up a very cold night hyper active elements already chanting

Alaa is sending SMS messages to this blog from the judges sit-in more details and here.

UPDATE I finished my phone credit and I am adding the SMSs manually.

UPDATE Photos from the sit in here, here, here and here

UPDATE SMSs in one page

At the same time people are drowning, ships sinking from the bad weather and I heared that several ports were closed. I am going to Ras-Sidr.

UPDATE: I am back home, recovering from bruises and sore muscles.

UPDATE: You can see the photos here

We are one of the lucky countries to be in the path of the Moon's umbral shadow in the upcoming solar eclipse. We can see a total eclipse from El-Sallum. Many people are already planning their trips and are going to set up camps and other observational areas for scientists and non-scientists. I personally want to go and watch the bright disc.

You can find more information regarding the 29th of March eclipse on the …

JC says that that he received two emails informing him that three main opposition websites are now blocked by the government. Users of the main ISPs (Linkdotnet, Tedata and Raya) in Egypt cannot have any access to these sites anymore.

These websites are: * Save Egypt Front * Masreyat * Egyptian Talks

The Ikhwan website is still accessible, which was blocked in 2005. I think blocking an Ikhwan site now is harder than it used to be. The …