Everyone has the right to change their opinion without being judged.

But NO one has the right to change their opinion and expect everyone to change theirs too!

Chiller == ثلاجة

Parcel == mailed boxes

Fags == Cigarettes

Cheers == Thank You, Regards

Ta: I’ve heard this word from a bus conductor when handing me back my money, so I’m guessing it means Thank you!

Top Up: تعبئة

Pop: This is a widely used verb which means put, get, go … it can be used anywhere.

“I’ll just pop that recipt in the bag for you”

“I’ll just pop out for a minute”

“Can you pop in your card in the machine, please”

Love: A term used by everyone. As we were advised, it doesn’t mean that the person loves you

“What can I get you Love?”

“Here are your things Love”

Quid = pounds (money) – thanks 3baid for bringing that up

Bertrand Russell

BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python.

I downloaded the Windows version, had problems with getting an uncorrupted executable, I had to choose a different mirror site, I chose Japan

After the successful installation, my AVG resident shield, detected the below as threats. The site has already warned about such thing if you have (AVG or Ikarus)

If you go to the Resident Shield Manage Exception, you can add that specific file.

I still haven’t used this tool and don’t really know my way around it. But I’m always a fan of free software that promise fast performance and doesn’t require much memory (link). I’m going to whip up some tests to see how well my UML diagrams are transferred to Java classes.

What ??? OMG …

I know, I hope …

You mean, we have NO Internet!! GOD, I need to access my emails! Out of all the things that could happen to me today!!

Whaaat the … ???

Do we need to come to work tomorrow … I’m just saying, we’ll get nothing done without Internet and emails … what were they thinking making us come today, NO Internet …

لماذا تدمن التفكير و الله و لي التدبير

و لماذا القلق من المجهول و كل شئ عند الله معلوم

اطمأن فأنت في عين الله الحفيظ

كفالته بلا حدود

و عطاياه لا تمنعها سدود

قل بقلبك الله معي

االله ناظر الي

شاهد علي

تعش مرتاحا عند الله محفوظ

I got this via sms and every now and then, I read it over and just breathe in.

Friendship that can last forever.

A relationship that isn’t sealed by religious commitment or legal vows. A bond that is not grounded by blood nor governed by kinship.

It is a choice.

It can survive differences. It can survive distances.

It is a relationship that is continuously tested. Surviving impossible challenges.

Yet surprisingly easily broken, an unknown, faceless, nameless cause!

It’s the most ironic cause, a strong deeply rooted tree, that survived rigorous conditions gets blown away!!!

Girls can make the best friends!

But one curse breaks everything apart.

A relationship that makes you feel like …

or like …

Nope I still don’t have one I may have one by the end of this year.

With old traditional way books, you own a copy, it’s physical, you sense it, but imagine if you wanted to carry around multiple books, if you were travelling or just about to finish a book and need another one for the ride, eReaders come in  handy.

If you think of eReaders and their impact on the environment, we do save trees by saving papers on books but don’t we contribute to global warming with electricity needed to charge it, heat emitted from it and electronic waste. Even if it small, but it is accumulative, isn’t it?

Anyway another thing popped into my sleepless head, what if I wanted an author to sign a copy of his/her book, how is that possible on an electronic copy! Till this moment, I am not aware of any eReader with an input device that one can scribble down something on a digital page. It’d would be awesome if eReaders, had cameras and I then can take a photo with the author and make it a page within the book and make him/her sign it, if it were possible. How about the iPad what does it offer, let’s not go there I take that back, cameras in eReaders, I don’t like it when too much unrelated functionality is shoved down products.

On a different note:

Don’t you agree that sometimes IT people exaggerate to the extend of ending the world at every IT hiccup.

“Well if this goes wrong, it is going to have disastrous consequences, the world will end”

“What ?? Will it make the sun and earth collide, will the earth stop rotating and swallow itself!!!”

“ahhh, no but the system will slow down, you won’t be able to play for a couple of minutes”

“!!!! Pick up and the phone, LIFE is calling you .. GO and get it”

This is not “The Matrix”, we do no live in a simulated reality, sometimes I’d rather we do, we’d solve all our problems by simply restarting the world, that is if it were built on windows infrastructure