I woke up this morning to find 360east.com down. The reason was pathetic. Somehow I managed to miss making the renewal payment for the domain name. So immediately, payment was made via my good old websurfer MasterCard and it took around 8 hours for the domain to resolve again (ie for my website to be [...]

This evening, I was playing with my son. We had four of these elongated egg-shaped magnets in our hands and we were talking about magnetism. To an 8 year old kid, and to an adult too, magnets are something magical. While all magnetic materials just fall to the ground, two magnets interact with each other [...]

Some negative Apple news for a change.

MacNN | Apple recalls 1.8m notebook batteries:
Apple today in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of its rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with cells manufactured by Sony for certain iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 notebooks. The recalled batteries can overheat, according to Apple, posing a [...]

A live chat with Sean McCarthy is still going on. One question, I submitted to the chat, about expected cost, was answered so far. I asked about the cost of a cell phone powering device based on the technology. McCarthy said that he expects the cost to be close to current technologies.

It is worth noting [...]

Steorn, the Irish company that claims it invented a ‘free energy’ technology, will be holding was supposed to hold live chat in a short while (Noon British Standard Time). The company has just announced a delay till 15:00 BST (That’s 5pm local Amman time)

Hi Folks,

Due to the unavailability of our management team, we must delay [...]

Today, in the youth section (PDF/Arabic) of Al-Rai newspaper, an article revealed the identity of the ‘scooter woman’ who has been whizzing around Amman with her red bike.

It turn out that it none other than Mrs Haya Karadsheh Qubain, the teacher at my son’s school!

The article is quite amusing and ecouraging. Apparently, Haya gets lot [...]

No, this is not a post pondering the changing face of Jordan Planet (that post is still forming in my mind and might see the light of day in the coming weeks/months).

It’s just a friendly note (yo Isam!)

If you notice the date: it’s December 31 1969 today.. (screenshot from Camino browser on a [...]