That’s why every European foreign minister/ President/Prime Minister is calling Damascus so a President could be elected in Lebanon!
Author: Eliedh
I just found out that in 1921 a meteorite fell on Beirut, I did a little research about it and here’s what I got:
- It fell on the last day of 1921 (12-31-1921) so I guess some people thought the world was ending :P
- It weights 1.1 Kg
- Its Official name is Beyrout
- It’s one of 17 meteorites classified as LL3.8
I was also able to get a picture of it but couldn’t find any info on where they are keeping it and who is keeping it, anyways here it is:
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14 March 2005 Panoramas
Panorama.dk has two nice 360 degrees panoramas taken on the 14th of March 2005 during the biggest demonstration in Lebanon’s history. The first panorama was taken near An Nahar building and you can only go sideways in it, The second one was taken from the historical ruins that are in the middle of the martyrs square, you can go to any direction you want in it. I hope we can go back to those days! Lebanon was united people had hope, we were leading and the politicians were following. We had the power to change things but we messed up!!
btw: One of the tiny dots in the back of the first picture is probable me, That’s where I was standing :P .
France 5 broadcasted yesterday a 52 minutes documentary about the Gemayel Family and its martyrs. The documentary is in French and I think everyone should watch it because whether you agree with them politically or not, you can’t deny that they played a big role in Lebanon’s history.
From Ouwet.com
I am currently starting to doubt more and more that the politicians and the countries that control them will agree on a president in the next couple of days. But if they do I hope one of those guys don’t become our president for the next 6 years:
-Amine Gemayel, Well we already tried him, that’s all what I am going to say.
-Michel Eddeh, Like Frangieh once said: I thought that a Syrian tank went over him while they were withdrawing since he threatened to jump in front any withdrawing Syrian troops.
-Robert Ghanem, I hate people with no real opinion, he just takes a position that is not strong enough to make him part of a group but strong enough to make him close to it while still giving him the ability to switch sides whenever he wants.
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A Digital Ruler
A lot of time when I am modifying or making a site, I need to get the width and height of a certain area of the screen. Usually I used to take a screenshot of the screen, go to photoshop and cut the area I need to see the size of it, but that used to take time so yesterday I made this little tool that does the job for me.
It is a window with an empty area in it, just put the window around anything you want to measure and it will give you the size of it directly (in Pixels). You can also set the window to take a certain size you need or change its color.
Here’s a Picture of the Digital Ruler running:
To download and run the program you need to agree to its EULA, If the program doesn’t run you probably don’t have the .Net Framework 2.0 (available in most computers running Vista and XP) so download it from here.
I receive a lot of spam daily on my blogs and most of it gets filtered by the Akismet anti spam plugin so I usually check the filter once per week to see if any clean comment was marked as spam. Two Weeks ago a comment caught my attention, the website of the writer of this comment was Lebanese so I first thought it was a wrong catch and wanted to un-spam it, but before I did so, I noticed many more similar comments also caught in the filter so I realized the comment was really a Lebanese spam message!
Since that date the Lebanese Blog Spam has been increasing, most of it gets caught by the filter but a few manage to get through it so I manually mark them as spam while moderating .
Here are some screenshots of the spam messages, the first 3 were caught in Exoleb‘s spam filter the other two made it to moderation (Haifa’s one in Exoleb, Fairuz’s one here).
I am currently at Shtroumpf and I decided to test the speed of the free Wi-Fi they offer. I am going to post the results in the Free Wi-fi Hotspots page, keep in mind that I am not the only one connected to the access point so the results may not be very accurate.
Note that I will try to test the speed of the net at every restaurant I visit and I’ll keep the free wi-fi hotspots page updated with the results.
Elie El Khoury is currently posting every day in his blog a topic addressed by Dimyanos Kattar in his various public appearances. He allready covered 4 topics which are:
By reading the posts you can tell that Kattar is not like the other presidential candidates, he does not come from a feudal family, he respects everyone and he has the will to work to build a better country.
I recently watched parts of an interview with him on NTV and discovered that this man is more than just an economist. During the war he was part of the red cross so he witnessed the atrocities committed by all the parties and helped ease the suffering of the Lebanese instead of taking sides like all the other presidential candidates. After the war he worked on many economic projects for Lebanon eventually becoming the minister of economy and finance in Mikati’s government. During this period Lebanese started to know him better and I personally admired the work he was doing and was surprised to see during one of the interviews that his home is just a modest normal home unlike the homes of the standard Lebanese politicians.
Kattar has all the qualifications that enable him to become a good president but in Lebanon people like him rarely succeed, he is an educated, clean person who worked for Lebanon all his life but can he lead the country with all those crazy politicians in the wild, how will he make a government liked by everyone and not be attacked by everyone? In a normal country he would make a great president but can he change anything in Lebanon if he does not receive some backing from the people?