I was checking Greenpeace’s “Guide to greener electronics” and apparently the stuff I own are made by a bunch of green companies. My cell phone is a Sony Ericsson with 7.7/10, my laptop is a Toshiba with a 7/10 and the DVD player and surround system in my room are from LG with a 7/10 too. The other electronics in the house are mostly from green companies too so I am glad I have little negative on the environment!
Via Engadget
A couple of months ago I got a Laptop and moved everything from my desktop to it, the only stuff I couldn’t move were my custom MSN messenger emoticons. I tried to enter via another username to the other PCs messenger and send the emoticons manualy but it didn’t work since each user has its own emoticon collection.
Yesterday I found a little tool that does half the job for me, this wizard (direct download link) will extract emoticons, display pictures and background from any MSN account you want and put them in a folder you select. You still have to manually re-create every emoticon but it’s better than nothing!
Since the politicians decided to spend the week screaming at each others on TV, half of my plans for the weekend were canceled due to the “situation we all know” (quoting the mail sent by my university to tell us we have no classes) so I spent a lot of time on the internet. One of the stuff I found was this little game with screaming beans, check it out, the only difference between the beans and the politicians is that at least you can shut the mouth of most of the beans :P .
This morning I watched a Lebanese red cross ad on TV encouraging people to enter an ICE number into the phone book of their Cell-Phones.
ICE means In Case of Emergency and entering this phone number will allow the Red Cross or any first responder to know who to contact in case you are in an accident. All you have to do is add a contact to your cell with the number of the person you want them to call in case you are in an accident. If you have multiple ICEs just name them ICE1, ICE2 … you can also add the relation you have with that person after the number like this: ICE1-Mom …
Note that the ICE program is not only running in Lebanon, it is also used in Europe and North America so get your cell phone and add an ICE entry now!
Visitors to LF’s site tonight got a weird message saying “Christmas is Here” one month before Christmas, the reason they got this message is because the guy that did the countdown that was running on the site took a Christmas countdown and modified it, the only thing he forgot to modify was the result :D, here’s a screenshot of the site the second Lahoud left office.
Lahoud is now officially finally an EX PRESIDENT!
I hope they agree on a new president soon that will be able to fix the mess done in those 9 years!
Lahoud declared a state of emergency, so I guess the army now controls the country, any idea what is gonna happen after this?
Here’s the declaration in arabic:
صدر عن الامانة العامة لرئاسة الجمهورية
ان رئيس الجمهورية بناءاً على الدستور المادتين 49 و 50 مرسوم اشتراعي 102 / 83
المدتين الاولى والثانية
وبناءاً على المرسوم الاشتراعي 52 اعلان حالة الطوارئ او المنطقة العسكرية
بما ان الولاية تنتهي في 23 من الجاري،
زبما انه لم يتم انتخاب رئيس للجمهورية حتى تاريخه، والحكومة تفتقر الى الميثاقية الدستورية
بحيث لا يسعها ممارسة السلطة بطريقة سليمة، مما ينسحب على مجلس الوزراء ومجلس الدفاع وعملاً بالتزامات رئيس الجمهورية تجاه وفي ضوء الظروف الاستثنائية يعلن رئيس توافر وتحقق اخطار حالة الطوارئ اعتباراً من 24 ت 2، 07 يكلف الجيش حفظ الامن ووضع قوى الجيش بتصرفه، عرض التدابير التي يفرضها الجيش فور تشكيل حكومة ميثتقية جديدة.
And btw we will get to see Lahoud leaving live on TV at 00:00 AM :D.
Update: The government is going to announce that the state of emergency is unconstitutional because apparently the constitution says that the government must announce it and it should be signed by the Minister of Defense (Source: LBCI)
A Blogger collected the facebook gender stats of the top countries using facebook and published them on his blog. Since Facebook is the most visited website in Lebanon (Alexa stats) I was sure we were going to be on the list so I checked it out and it turns out we are the 21st country in facebook usage. Here are the stats:
Here is the graph from the original Blog with Lebanon Highlighted in red, Click on the picture to view it in full size.
The army didn’t organize a parade for the second year in row due to political and security reasons but apparently this year Offre Joie organized one to celebrate independence day, I just found this picture of the parade on BBC’s Day in pictures but couldn’t get any more info about it.
Soldiers provide security for a parade by the Lebanese group Offre Joie in central Beirut.
I hope next year we get a normal happy independence day.
Yesterday night Lahoud gave his last speech, unfortunately I was only able to watch the start of it but one thing that caught my attention is him saying he will not be able to tell us all what he managed to do during his time in office so I’ll give him some help in this post.
I first started to write everything he did but since they say “a picture can tell a thousand words” I decided to show you some pictures instead:
