Archive for July, 2008

Revenge of a blogger

Friday, July 25th, 2008

The blog posts have been piling up in my brain. The potentially bloggable photos have been crowding my camera phone. It’s been 10 days since my last blog post and my “inner blogger” is about to explode.

So tonight he will get his revenge!

Prepare for a 360east BLOG EXPLOSION.

TOOOONIIIIIIIIIGHT!

Hello ‘West Amman”: the biggest mall is in East Amman

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Now this is an interesting ad. Beituna, an investment company is announcing that the biggest, already constructed mall and commercial center is it’s own Beituna City on Yarmouk Street, beyond Al Wihdat refugee camp.

What’s more, the ad says: Seven minutes from 4th Circle with no traffic lights. Wow.

The new highway that connects Jabal Amman to [...]

Japan’s zero waste town: recycle everything!

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

The people of this Japanese town have to compost all their food waste and sort their trash into 34 different bins (see below) at their community’s “zero waste” center. No joking around with trash. Check out the BBC video.
I don’t want to even start thinking about what we do in Jordan with trash. It’s all [...]

What? No iTunes Music store for Jordan?!

Friday, July 11th, 2008

This is so disappointing. Although Jordan is one of only 3 Arab countries who will, later this year, get the iPhone officially, Jordan did not make onto the long list of new countries who yesterday got access to the iTunes music store.

In the Arab world, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon where on. [...]

The most beautiful interview: Lennon and the teenage kid with a tape recorder

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Almost 40 years ago, a 14 year old Beatles fan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room with a tape recorder. He convinced the star to do an interview about peace.

Now, Lennon’s words come alive again in this amazing short film.

Green blocks/pixels on YouTube videos when using Flash 10 beta for Mac OS X

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Flash video performance on my PowerBook G4 was really bad over the past few months. Maybe because my hard disk is always almost full.. Or maybe because I really need to do a clean install of OS X after years of upgrades..

Anyway, I was delighted to read today that a Flash 10 beta was out [...]

Wall.e: when robots dream of human love

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

How lucky are we in Amman to get the newest Pixar movie just a few days after its release in America? I went to see Wall.e today with two of my kids at the magnificent new Prime Cinemas in Al Baraka Mall in Sweifieh. We went for the 7:00 pm show and I was surprised [...]