Archive for the 'Family stuff' Category

Amman’s most colorful day: a city no longer ashamed of itself!

Monday, October 12th, 2009

For the past two years, the subject of Amman has been unavoidable for me. Not only do I live in this city, but I’ve also been, with my company SYNTAX, involved in the first big branding effort this city has undertaken. I am overdosed on Amman! The branding project has been completed but writing about [...]

The longevity of content: Iftah Ya Simsim, the Sesame Street of Arabia

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I have three kids, aged 11, 6 and 3. So its obvious that a lot of children TV and content is consumed in our household. Kids today have an amazing array of media targeted at them: from Bluray quality Pixar movies in vivid detail, color and surround sound, to online Flash games and YouTube [...]

Grendizer creator Go Nagai coming to Amman!

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

A flying robot..

An his creator..

..are coming to Amman!!

Go Nagai, the man behind Grendizer is coming to Amman and giving two lectures.

7 October at 11 am at the Princess Sumaya University
8 October at the Royal Film Commission.

This is fantastic. Details here.

When I blogged about Grendizer five years ago, the amount of comments I got was overwhelming. [...]

Living without the dish: our family’s video-on-demand experiment

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Two months ago, my family moved house. Our satellite dish was left on the roof of the old house. Since the move, we’ve been living without a dish, resulting in a purely video-on-demand lifestyle.

So how important is TV for you and your kids? And what happens when conventional satellite TV is absent?

Every family is different, [...]

Google’s Arabic Q&A service ‘Egabat’: clever way to sniff the market (and what’s up with the Egyptian influence in its name ;-)

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Google today announced the launch of a new Arab focused question and answer service under the name Google Egabat (English: Google Answers), not to be confused with the now-defunct English Google Answers service which was shut down a few years ago. For more info about Google Egabat check out StartupArabia’s post.

Its definitely exciting to see [...]

Back to School (and the horrible schoolbooks Jordan’s children are given)

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Can a schoolbook cover look more depressing? A miserable boy, asleep at the desk, writing in his copy-book, ink bottle by his side.

I want you to feast your eyes on the the photo above and the eleven other examples from 3rd grade government curricula schoolbooks, which I photographed three years ago (but always kept postponing [...]

Where the heck did Amman’s big red tour busses disappear?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Ok, this is really old new by now. But I still would be interested in more info.

Last year, Amman got its first tour busses which, like in any big capital, meant to keep going around town in a certain path, passing through all the cities notable sites, shopping opportunities and landmarks.

They became part of the [...]