Eliedh’s Blog – Page 24

Israel Bombed Syria

Post author By Eliedh
Post date September 6, 2007

Last night Israel bombed Syria!! The Syrian fired at the planes but as usual they did not hit anything, I wonder were are the Migs hiding? The weird thing is that Syria just made the news public and an Israeli did not comment! The Syrians also made a threat to Israel: “if they repeat this something bad will happen”.

I thinks that’s a message from Israel to Syria gently explaining to them that they are still stronger and that they can attack them any time they want no matter what kind of weapons they buy from Russia.

PS: I just hope the Syrian reply doesn’t come through Hezbollah!

Syria vs Israel

Gadgets Technology

The New Ipod Touch

Post author By Eliedh
Post date September 5, 2007

Steve Jobs introduced today the new Ipod Touch.

Apple New Ipod Touch

The speculation preceding the launch were true (kind of) the new Ipod is an Iphone minus the phone (Wifi, touch screen interface…) but they didn’t replacee the Ipod with it, they just added it to the collection, a good move in my opinion.

Apple New Ipod Touch

That’s not it, the whole Ipod lineup was updated with new features and designs and you can now (finally) buy music directly from your Ipod Touch or Iphone.

Apple New Ipod Touch

For more info about the new products check out Macworld.

Television

Advertisement Filming Set

This morning at university an advertisement was being filmed for some Arabic company, we first thought they were filming a video clip so we went to see who was the singer but they told us it was an ad for some product so we watched how they film ads, took some pictures and went back to the air conditioned class!

Advertisement Filming Set Ferrari

Lebanon

Mission Accomplished

The regiments of the army that participated in the Nahr L Bared Battle are now returning to their bases, people are gathered at some places and a lot of people are driving in their cars holding Lebanese army flags, Lebanese flags and sadly some political party flags (One car was just holding a tayyar flag!).

The only TV station that is reporting the return of the army is OTV, other channels are just showing cartoons! OTV also has a very nice slogan on the screen: “September 1st 1920: The Great Lebanon (Loubnan L Kabir), September 2nd 2007: The Greater Lebanon (Loubnan L Akbar).

Here are some pictures from the Antelias-Jal El Dib area I took a couple of minutes ago (as you can see kids are on the streets so TV channels can stop the cartoons and be Lebanese for a while).

Lebanese Army Celebrations

People

The Importance of a Kiss

According to a New York University study the kiss means a lot for women:

They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of a relationship.

So every time you kiss a girl make sure you do it the correct way, your entire relationship could depend on that kiss!

The Kiss by Francesco Hayez, 19th century.

Internet Lebanon News

LebArmy.gov.lb services

Post author By Eliedh
Post date September 3, 2007

The official Lebanese Army website offers a lot of nice useful feature, you can check the headlines of all the Lebanese newspapers, read a summary of the editorials of all the newspapers, check the Lebanese Army news, read a summary of news from the Middle East, the enemy (Israel) and the world, you can also read the introduction of the news on some radio stations.

Another page contains the precise hour of the start of the day and of the end of the day for september. (Useful for Ramadan I guess)

You can also get a couple of nice Lebanese Army wallpapers for your desktop.

All of those services are offered for free in addition to news and information about the Lebanese Army and a list of the martyrs who died during the battle of Nahr El Bared.

Lebanon Politics

Sanioura’s Priorities

Sanioura just gave his “victory speech”, those are the priorities in his speech:

Message to the Palestinians (They will rebuild the homes)
Message to the Lebanese politicians (Stop fighting)
Message to the Families of the Martyrs (RIP Martyrs)
Message to the Lebanese Army comanders (Good job)
Message to the Lebanese (We won, please don’t shot in the air)

I don’t know about you but I think that points 3, 4 and 5 are most important than point 1 and 2!

Weird

Islamic University of LebanonE

Post author By Eliedh
Post date September 2, 2007

Do they teach English?

Islamic University of Lebanon

Lebanon Politics Television

Is the Battle of Nahr El Bared over?

Post author By Eliedh
Post date September 2, 2007

Lebanese Army APC Today while checking the AFP news on my cell after waking up I was surprised by news that the army killed 20 terrorists while they were trying to flee the camp and captured 7 but apparently 5 including Chaker L Absi (The leader of the group) managed to flee so the army was searching Nahr L Bared and the surrounding areas. I went to the living room to watch TV and see what happening and only Al Jazeera was reporting live from the camp! The Lebanese TV channels were just showing the normal morning shows!!!

The Lebanese TV channels were not properly covering the Battle from Day one (Hariri or Aoun or any politician repeating the same thing he has been saying for a year is more important than Lebanese Soldiers dying for Lebanon according to those Channels!) but this might be the last day of battle and the least they could do is show us what is happening! “Jarass” a Lebanese Music Television was broadcasting Army songs but Lebanese News Television were doing nothing!!!

I just checked Google news, what’s happening in Lebanon is on the front page same for BBC news! So when will the Lebanese TVs respect the army as much as foreign news sources are?

UPDATE: I just turned on the TV in my room, LBCI is now reporting from Nahr L Bared! 10 apparently escaped and 2 were killed in villages surrounding the camp.

Operating System Personal

My Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Post author By Eliedh
Post date September 1, 2007

One of the nice features in Vista is the ability to put gadgets on the desktop, the system comes loaded with a couple of gadgets and you can download others later from Microsoft’s web site.

Here’s the list of gadgets I am using:

Presto’s Clock, A simple clock with the date.
2 Slide Show *, One with pictures of Bachir Gemayel and the other with Lebanese Army pictures.
Feed Headlines *, From Slashdot and Naharnet.
WeatherBug, Current weather and weather forecast for any city you want.
Multi Meter, Shows the usage of your processors and the RAM.
Notes *, Digital Post-its.

*:Preloaded with Vista.

My vista sidebar gadgets