For the third time this year. A 6 day windsurfing break. I hope it will be warm, sunny and with some good wind.

من سنة تقريبا رج زلزال المحيط الهندي العالم كلة. عرفنا بنوع جديد من الكوارث. قتل آلاف البشر، بالتقريب 275,000 و العدد غير دقيق و مازال يراجع. و تشرد 14 ألف شخص و شرد أكثر من مليون شخص.

لم أفقد عزيز لي في هذا الحادث و لكن من هولة سأقف أمام خليج العقبة فى صمت لمدة دقيقة في نفس ساعة حدوث الزلزال بعد غد.

أعتذر عن كل من يتكلم العربية و أباح لنفسة أمام رعب …

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 …

MasaMania writes (with tons of photos) about street racing in Tokyo. Hashiriya is the name of the races. Seeing the photos I never could have imagined that there could be so much powerful cars in just one place.

And the rules are:

... Hashiriya never be scare of police. They memorise exactly where speed traps are setted. and they have special divice to detect police car approching. and of course, they are too speedy to be …

Alaa reports that armed state security forces detained the Egyptian journalist Ahmad Abdollah "Abo Islam". They broke in to his house on Monday. Five bloggers visited him and knew from his son that state security forces threatened his family at gun point and confiscated computer hard drives, CDs and books. He was a member of the Labour "El A'aml" party, former editor in ASha'ab newspaper and published two other newspapers. Currently he writes on a …

The Egyptian version of the Zastava 128 GLS is back and available for sale. The Car of the year 1969 is back in production in 2005. Well, actually it is almost 2006 by now.

Speaking of 2006 and the 21st century and so on. Read about hybrid vehicles.

But you know, the 128 deserves our respect. She was so useful to so many people. And probably still useful to many today. For almost 30 years …

If you don't want to end up like Abdolkarim and think that being anonymous is no easy feat. Check out TorPark:

Download TorPark for your language, and put it on a USB Flash key chain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer directly to a Tor exit computer, giving the appearance …

This is a story that touches anyone. Her smile now is far more powerful than the bomb.