Eliedh’s Blog – Page 28

President Bachir Gemayel

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 23, 2007

President Cheikh Bachir Gemayel

25 years ago, on the 23rd of August 1982, the dream of many Lebanese started to come true, Bachir Gemayel was elected president of the Lebanese Republic, a new era had began.

This dream didn’t last long, 21 days later he was assassinated, since then the situation in Lebanon kept deteriorating, Christians destroyed each others, The country was occupied for many years and now the politicians Bachir used to fight are “leading” this country (or what’s left of it).

I never knew Bachir and many people my age didn’t, but just listening to his speeches makes you love him, he was Lebanese and had all the qualities of a leader, he could have saved Lebanon and that’s why they killed him.

Here’s a Video of the election day, the celebrations that followed and the foreign medias reporting the news.

Weird World

The Pirates are back!

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 23, 2007

Pirates

Pirate still exist,they replaced the old boats with new ones, are armed with sophisticated weapons and high tech equipments! and still look for money and demand ransoms to be payed to free the vessels.

The latest Pirates catch was a Danish vessel that was freed today after Denmark paid a ransom to the Pirates! The pirates held the ship since early June and were briefly chased and fired at by a US Ship that stopped the pursuit when the ship entered Somali waters.

Internet Photography

A Source for great Pictures

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 23, 2007

Vernal Falls Rainbow

Wikipedia is a source of articles for school and university projects but it can be also be a great source for pictures and wallpapers, just check Wikipedia’s featured pictures page, here’s the page description from Wikipedia

This page highlights images that the Wikipedia community finds beautiful, shocking, impressive, and/or informative. It is the visual equivalent to featured articles and as such even more subjective. Images are categorized by the topic they represent, which is not necessarily what you might expect just by looking at the picture. There is also a category for images with aspect ratios suitable for wallpapering.

There are currently 863 featured pictures.

USAF in desert storm

Funny

Frites = Freet

In French “French Fries” are called frites, This restaurant near St Charbel decided to write his menu in English and Arabic but still call French Fries frites, except that he decided to write it in english so it became Freet!

Freet!!

Blogging

Bug Fixed

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 22, 2007

Yesterday I checked my blog in Internet Explorer and discovered that the sidebar isn’t loading correctly, I checked in Opera, same error.
I made a huge mistake when I started the blog, I only tried it in Firefox so when I saw the error I thought the theme is to blame so I started looking for a new one, this morning I installed a new theme but the same error occurred in IE and Opera, I noticed that the two browsers stopped loading the page at the Acer post, so I checked the post code and discovered that it’s full of unnecessary crap from Gmail! I corrected the code and now the site opens in every browser.

Safari Firefox Internet Explorer Opera

Lebanon Photography

Trip To 3youn 2erghoch

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 22, 2007

Yesterday we went to 3youn 2erghoch, this village is located on the other side of the Cedars Mountains overlooking the Bekaa Valley, the village is very small, you can only see a couple of houses in it and some restaurants surrounding small lakes.

Here are some pictures of the trip:

Driving in the clouds

Internet Lebanon

ADSL in Lebanon

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 22, 2007

I wanted to check and compare the ADSL prices between different ISPs in Lebanon but apparently they all have the same prices:

24$ for 128kbps up/32kbps down, 2GB monthly bandwidth
34$ for 256kbps up/64kbps down, 3GB monthly bandwidth
47$ for 512kbps up/128kbps down, 4GB monthly bandwidth
77$ for 1024kbps up/256kbps down, 5GB monthly bandwidth

The only difference between ISPs is the size of the mailboxes you get with your account, and a few dollars between modems available, Terranet offers to double your speed from 8pm to 8am but adds “Free Double Speed Feature is subject to feasibility study.” so I don’t know if you can get a doubled speed at night.

I also doubt that the monthly limit is enough now that people watch a lot of videos and download a lot of media from the internet.

ADSL

Lebanon Politics

Lebanese Hawker Hunters flying next week?

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 21, 2007
6 Comments on Lebanese Hawker Hunters flying next week?

The LBCI reporter said a few days ago that Hawker Hunters might help bombing Nahr L Bared, I wrote a post about that but nothing was confirmed yet.

Today I found this Aviation Forum, it contains a post confirming that the Hunters will fly again, here’s what a user said:

Was on the phone with a former retired Hunter pilot and he was a little doubtful but confirmed the news that they are getting ready to fly again. They already have contacted him in case they needed the help of more experienced people for the Hunters.
He said they will try to make the first flight this week. If the Hunters fly, it would be absolutely amazing for all the fans!

I hope they fly again and send those animals to hell!

A Lebanese Hawker Hunter

Funny Internet

Bruno Bozzetto Flash Animations

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 21, 2007

Bruno Bozzetto is an Italian producer and animator who is recently producing great flash animations, I first watched one of his animation in class, the teacher wanted to explain the difference between civilizations so he showed us a Bozzetto Animation about the difference between the Italian customs and the European ones, I really liked the animation and found that Italians are very similar to Lebanese (watch it and you will wee why) so I downloaded the animation when I got home, today I found Bruno’s site and on the site you can watch all his animations so check them out.

Lebanon Politics Programing

Vista Sidebar Gadget: Lahoud Term End

Post author By Eliedh
Post date August 21, 2007

Vista Sidebar Gadget: Lahoud Term End Preview This is a Gadget showing a countdown of the remaining days of Lahoud as a president of Lebanon.
To use the gadget you must have Windows Vista, download the gadget and install it, if the image is broken on the borders after the install, close the gadget and re-start it.

Click here to Download the Gadget

If you want a gadget showing the duration of the opposition sit-in click here.