Amman Rain, 15 October 2006 on Vimeo

First big rain in Amman this season. Last year the first big rain was on Oct 19.

Another year has passed, amazingly.

Ok, so I’ve been tagged by Jano with the.. {drum roll and echo} the iToot vs iBaloo6 tag.

Let’s see..

1) are you a berry or a squirrel?On one hand I am a Berry.. But that’s sort of irrelevant when you’re the Architect of the Matrix. It’s all an illusion maaan!
2) if you were a squirrel, you [...]

The ‘rumors’ were true..
toot: The Arab blog network :
We at the Toot Corporation, the leading Arab blog network, are delighted, no.. we are overjoyed.. actually.. we are ecstatic to announce that, after tough ‘negotiations’ with The Squirrels, the deal is done: Toot has fully acquired iBaloo6.In a move that will shock many of iBaloo6’s [...]

The newly announced iBaloo6 is rumored to be holding secret negotiations with the Toot Corporation. The rumors come after the Toot Corporation has threatened the squirrels with legal action for patent infringement.

Sources close to the negotiations expect a deal between Toot and iBaloo6 in the next 24-48 hours

The sources added: “expect some surprises [...]

Someone has gotten creative! Toot now officially has some competition: iBaloo6

We at the Toot Corporation are taking this matter very seriously. Considering we have two lawyers on our founders team (George and Karim), we’re considering to take legal action against the squirrels who are trying to imitate us, despite their cute and innocent [...]

I’ve written before about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative.

Well it seems that Libya, out of all places, seems to be one of the first countries to have been fully sold on the idea!

U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren – New York Times:
“When I met with Qaddafi, it had [...]

I can confirm that I was able to access the Skype.com domain again this morning. The story of the TRC’s attempted ban of Skype today made it to the Jordan Times, who ran a big story on the matter on page 2 (pasted in full below).

UNBELIEVABLY, the TRC is insisting on the security/terrorist threat issue. [...]