Tagging Till The Father of Banana (la abo mozeh)

As I've been Tagged by Manar this means I have to do it again:
Here is the rules:

1. Check the link


2. Answer the questions


3. Copy and paste the results

Lets Do it

What's your Japanese Name?

Your Japanese Name Is...

Shino Yamada

What's Your Blogging Personality?

Your Blogging Type is Artistic and Passionate

You see your blog as the ultimate personal expression - and work hard to make it great. One moment you may be working on a new dramatic design for your blog... And the next, you're passionately writing about your pet causes. Your blog is very important - and you're careful about who you share it with.

How Open Minded Are You?

You Are 52% Open Minded

You are a very open minded person, but you're also well grounded. Tolerant and flexible, you appreciate most lifestyles and viewpoints. But you also know where you stand firm, and you can draw that line. You're open to considering every possibility - but in the end, you stand true to yourself.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Your Brain's Pattern

You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy. You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts. People may say you're hard to read, but that's because you're so internally focused. But when you do share what you're thinking, people are impressed with your imagination.

The Five Factor Personality Test

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have medium extroversion. You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party. Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences. But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time." Conscientiousness: You have medium conscientiousness. You're generally good at balancing work and play. When you need to buckle down, you can usually get tasks done. But you've been known to goof off when you know you can get away with it. Agreeableness: You have medium agreeableness. You're generally a friendly and trusting person. But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism. You get along well with others, as long as they play fair. Neuroticism: You have medium neuroticism. You're generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic. Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy. Your life is pretty smooth, but there's a few emotional bumps you'd like to get rid of. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is high. In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas. You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits. A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black Comedy

In your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh. You may end up insane, but you'll have fun on the way to the asylum. Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Psycho

What Age Do You Act?

You Are 29 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Type of Weather Are You?

You Are Sunshine

Soothing and calm You are often held up by others as the ideal But too much of you, and they'll get burned You are best known for: your warmth Your dominant state: connecting

Done!
I'll be tagging Dar, Hiba, & Yaman

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Where have I been in the last 6 months (maybe more)

I was watching a movie the other day Paycheck, (I didn't finish it yet, as My DVD Drive cannot handle using for more than 20 minutes, I'm going to buy a new one soon), In that movie, one of them got his memory erased for 2 months, and when he was asked that are you OK with that, he replied about what does he want to remember from the last 2 months, there was nothing worth remembering.
I started thinking, what do I want to remember from my last period of time, or exactly, what am I going to remember. I was at the office working, What else did I do? I guess nothing important.
When I go back in memory to remember things, I just get back to 2002, that was my golden age. Now from the moment I graduated (February 2004) tell now, what did I do other than finding a job, working, and resign.
Man, I really feel pity for my life, I'm kind of transforming into a machine, yes I have accomplished a lot in these 2 years, but is this what I want. Is my life based on work achievements?
Is work achievements things worth remembering, (in a place other than the interview room).
I just hope that something personal pops up in my life, in some way, as I cannot make it happen.

Technorati Tags: Personal, Wierdo, work, movie

Firefox 2.0 alpha available

If you aspire to be an early adopter, here's your chance. An alpha version of Firefox 2.0 called "Bon Echo" is available on Mozilla's FTP servers, and you can choose from the Windows version, Mac OS X version, or Linux version.

Due out later this year, Firefox 2.0 promises a handful of improvements and new features over what is already a very solid browser. (By way of disclosure, I use Firefox 1.5 exclusively on my PC.)

Version 2.0 has a handful of new features. One of the more interesting features is the revamped places menu, which is accessible from the bookmarks toolbar. Clicking on that brings up a box that will allow you to search your history, bookmarks, and RSS subscriptions for a keyword. Very useful if you remember reading about something interesting earlier in the day and need to quickly locate the web page again. Aesthetically speaking, there are a few minor tweaks to the UI, such as Xs on inactive tabs for easy closing.

Google's antiphishing tech is also planned for inclusion in a future version of Firefox. Although it does not appear to be incorporated into this early alpha of 2.0, Google Safe Browsing—which uses a combination of blacklisting and "best guesses" about a site's intention—may yet make it into the final release of Firefox 2.0.

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The Terms And Conditions

That day I got a notice from a site that I rarely used (but I had an account there) that I'm breaking the law. and if that happens again they are going to delete my account (who cares), so I took a look at the terms of service they have, and just gasped (Oh My God, are we still living in that age), so I didn't wait tell they delete my account, I did it for them.
I'm not going to mention all the terms of services here, but just picked one by random

Not to mention any subject that involves violating proxy, or hacking emails and websites, or even spying on other users' PCs.

I don't know, I guess these things are over, or maybe I'm living in another planet for the last 5 years, I think that those things are called security tips, this black/white hat thing ended ages ago. If somebody has a security bug, everybody has to know, so they would avoid using it, until the bug is fixed

Taking a look at PHP 6

While most web hosts are still in the PHP 4 era, the PHP developers are already planning and working on PHP 6. Lets have a look at what’s been keeping them busy.
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Naji Ali

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Masks

I've been reading about this masks that we wear all the time, in some blogs around, and I'm really feeling them annoying me.
For some period of time, I decided to remove all the masks I have (Most of them not all), and I tried living with it for a while, I really lived some period of my life, I was really undiplomatic (it was really fun to tell a guy you hate that you really hate him), I talked my heart, and I really felt free (as in freedom).
But graduating from the university, and going into the market destroyed everything, it's almost impossible to live in this world without masks. For example, you cannot tell your Boss that you hate him, or that he is so annoying (I thought about it a lot :P). You can't tell a customer that he is so stupid, or (a3la ma b5ailak erkabo). And as your social life gets smaller and smaller, you have to try to keep what's left from your friends. So you have to wear a different mask with every group of people.
And man, this artificial life that we are living, I really have a trouble getting into it. But in a lot of this you have to, or you would be the stupid geek living upstairs.
Well how many masks I wear, one for work, one for some other group of people at work, one for walking in the streets, one for a particular people I know, other for some group of friends, another for another group .... etc.
I have this question, am I going to live in masks for the rest of my life? Whom am I living for? Can't I just live my life the way I wanted it? ...
Ich kenne nicht.

Technorati Tags: Alaa, Wierdo, Masks, Personal

Ich bin etikettiert worden

Well Roba was nice enough to tag me, thanks

Q: Who’s the 4th person on your received call list?
A: Mother

Q: What’s your main ringtone on your phone?
A: 7oryah - Mohammad Moneer.

Q: What were you doing at midnight last night?
A: Refreshing some old memories with an old notebook (and hearing some songs I used to hear then)

Q: What did the last text message on your cell phone say
A: "احكي بنص قرش بعد منتصف الليل على ارقامك السوبر مع خط الطلاب 101", I still keep my 101 line.

Q: Whose bed did you sleep in last night?
A: Mine.

Q: What color shirt are you wearing?
A: Gray.

Q: Most recent movie that you watched?
A: Munich, It was really great.

Q: Name 3 things that you have on you at all times?
A: My mobile, My flash drive, and my Master Card.

Q: What's the color of your bedsheets?
A: Brown I guess.

Q: How much cash do you have on you right now?
A: 9 JDs and something.

Q: What is your favorite part of the chicken?
A: Legs.

Q: What's your favorite town/city?
A: Damascus.

Q: I can't wait to (till)...?
A: I don't know, I'm not dying for anything right now.

Q: When was the last time you saw your mom?
A: Saturday Morning.

Q: When was the last time you saw your dad?
A: Saturday Morning.

Q: When was the last time you talked to them?
A: Saturday Morning.

Q: What did you have for dinner last night?
A: I didn't.

Q: How long have you been at your current job?
A: Something close to 8 months.

Q: Look to your left. What's there?
A: My Bass.

Q: Who is the last person you spent over $50 on?
A: Me !!!!.

Q: Whats the last piece of clothing you borrowed from someone?
A: Can't remember...

Q: What website(s) do you visit the most during the day?
A: Google, Jordan Planet, Maktoob.com, and Quotes of the Day.

Q: Do you have an air freshener in your car?
A: I don't have a car.

Q: Do you have plants in your room?
A: Nope.

Q: Does anything hurt on your body right now?
A: My pointer finger on the right hand.

Q: What city was your last taxi cab ride in?
A: Amman.

Q: Do you own a camera phone?
A: Nope, that's why I'm missing all of the fun.

Q: What's your favorite starbucks drink?
A: Never been to.

Q: Recent time you were really upset?
A: Thursday.

Q: Have you been in love with anyone?
A: Twice, looking for the third if anybody is intrested.

Q: Who do you think will repost this?
A: Someone liked it.

I am tagging Manar, Jad, Dar, and Thomas.

Technorati Tags: Tag, Personal, alaa

NULL Issue In MySQL

In the last few days, I was working on some mysterious issue regarding some SQL statements, it was something like this.
SELECT count(*) from some_table WHERE (condition_a);
the result was:
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|    11223 |
+----------+

alright Now:
SELECT count(*) from some_table WHERE (condition_a) AND (condition_b);
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|        0 |
+----------+
aha Ok then:
SELECT count(*) from some_table WHERE condition_a AND NOT (condition_b);
The result was also
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|        0 |
+----------+

HA !!!!
Ok for those 11223 records the condition_a was true, from the second statement I could tell that condition_b was false, so NOT condition_b should be true, but it was also false from the third statement.
So for Logic to play around condition_b, and NOT condition_b both are false (How can that be) all theories of logic are broken (what is going on?)
After breaking up the two conditions, I found that I was comparing one of the values in condition_b with NULL, so in BOTH cases the result would be FALSE, I've always assumed that NULL would be casted to 0, but the fact that in MySQL it's not.
So this was just a thing that you might want to take care of when you write your SQL statements.
Hope it was Useful

Technorati Tags: MySQL, Gotcha, alaa, SQL

Sorry Pink Floyed

After looking at the referring sites that users come to my blog from, I found that Google was on top, and guess what, it's the search for "so you think you can tell heaven from hell", if you googled it, and pressed I'm Feeling Lucky you would go to So You Think You Can Tell Heaven From Hell , and if you pressed search you would find my blog at the top.
I'm sorry I stole that name :)

Technorati Tags: Pink Floyed, Google, alaa, blog, search

Cute Quotes to Start Your Day

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

Technorati Tags: quote, Voltaire, Steven Weinberg, Dame Edna Everage, Ed Parker, Jack London

I'm sorry, I'm so Busy.

Well, what a week, I've never been this busy before, so sorry I didn't post anything lately, and sorry for not replying all the emails I receive, and sorry for not answering all the calls.
Well truly I'm busy, and I'm not trying to avoid anyone ... so please excuse me these days, I just have a million thing to do ...

What a Night

Oba Oba, I love this woman, do you know what does it feels like when you spend all the night doing nothing but listening to music, especially when it's performed by Stan Getz, sang by the great Astrud Gilberto, and originally wrote by Joao Gilberto, Oh Dindi, and There is no one like you, (taken from the spirit of Chopin's Prelude in Em).
I love you more each day, yes I do, I'll let you go away, if you only take me with you, and the Girl From Ipanema, takes me to other worlds, no one else can take me to, and How Insensitive, I must have seemed, you didn't have to be so nice, I would've loved you anyway.
And in the end comes Ziad, in his Brazilian concert, with Sho B7ebbek, and his own version of Prelude in Em.
Every time I wanted to shut down the computer, another great song is played, and of course I could do nothing.
Thanks for this great night, of course this is not my first night like this, but I guess this is the first time I write about it.

Technorati Tags: music, jazz, alaa

Old File

This program is a semulation of a process management system.
I wrote in 3rd year, after I took the OS course, so hope it might be useful for some people.
jobmanagement.c
Enjoy ...
I published it before, I thought it won't harm if I do it again.

Technorati Tags: c, programming, OS

I Failed to Fail

Wooooooooooooooooooooow, I passed, I'm now an official Zend PHP Certified Engineer.

Today, I was so nervous in the morning, as this is my first exam since 2 years, and I'm back again to life. wooooooooooooooooooooow.

Technorati Tags: php, zend, pass, Certified

Weirdo Thoughts

Well, I don't know where do I start, it's like a million thoughts in my mind running at once.
Today, I was setting with a friend of mine, we were discussing a lot of things, about relativity, about origins, about life ... etc.
It was mostly about judging and “MAYBE”, maybe things are this, and maybe things are not. You have to make a decision, but maybe you were right, and maybe you were wrong.
Logic should help you in this, but the problem is that logic is not always logical, Logic says that everything should have a start, and everything should have an end; but also logic says that there is always a plus 1, and of course there is always a minus 1. Well this is not logical, there is no rules, there is nothing in logic.
I started thinking, I'm living this life, I'm 22 years old now, I'm running in this life, I don't want to waste time, why?
In computer science, the most thing I saw that implements something like life was General Trees, and people started to put Algorithms to search them, but there is a big difference between them and between life, when you are in a node in the Tree, you know all the nodes surrounding you. In life you know some of the nodes around you, but more and more nodes are hidden from you, you always try to think out of the box to find another options (nodes), but you can't know them all. another major difference is that when searching in a General tree when you reach a dead end, you can go back one step or more. In life that's not always available, you cannot undo things you've done. People made heuristics to find the shortest path to another node, they rarely happen to find them (only in an ideal tree or life), for example everyday, I wake up to go to work (from Rainbow St. to the Second circle), I have some different paths to reach it, I have some rational options, and I take one of them. My rational option is that to reach to my work is to be heading to the first circle up the street, but what if I took another path, what if went down town, maybe I would find a colleague who's driving a car, and just picks me up and I would spend less time in my journey to work. it takes me about 20 minutes when I take my rational path, but if I calculate my irrational path, it would take me in such condition about 8 minutes. (it's another Maybe).
Another thing, I'm running through my life, racing time, but to where ... ? I'm more successful in my life than most of people in my age. but how can I tell. A simple question is always asked, what is the reason of my life? a lot of people just answer it without even really thinking about it. well let's ask the question in another way, what is the thing that you would die for? that if you achieved it you don't want anything more? well maybe I had an answer for that question for sometime, but it changed in a lot of time. new purposes where put, and a lot of purposes where erased. Now, I can't answer that question. I think is that I'm living in a chaos. It's a little bit organized, but it's still a chaos.
Damn, I cannot concentrate on one thing. Why am I going to work everyday? why I'm spending time doing what I do? why am I being me? where do I want to go in the end? ...
No answer, which gives another kind of question, why do I want to live? I didn't choose to live in the first place, I was never convinced with a reason to come to this planet. And now I'm fighting to survive ... Ironic. If I died, what changes would that make? If I lived a million year, what changes would that make? If I didn't come to this planet, what changes would be? ... No answer!
If you take an upper view to life, you would feel it's worthless. But you are fighting for survival, you are racing time to take the most of it. WHY? ... No answer.
I lived a lot of experience in my life, that most people would live and die without knowing any of them, I lived the best days of my life, and I lived the worst. I knew what hunger means, and I know how love feels like. I lived days that I don't want to sleep, cause I would lose a moment of happiness, and I lived days that I don't want to wake up, so I wouldn't feel more pain. Why all of this? I could've ended things in a lot of ways, but I didn't. I could've asked for help from people that I don't want them in my life when I really needed it, but I didn't. why? ... I just don't know.
In the last JP meeting, I spent almost 10 minutes, just sitting, looking at every group, hearing what they say, just trying to figure out what discussion interests me the most. I wanted to move to sit beside a group, to join, but at that moment, I don't know what happened to me, I moved to another group. what I was thinking in that moment? ... can't say.
Sometimes I think, what if I knew everything? wouldn't that make my life easier? but what does it worth living after that? I've always hated limits, but limits makes you comfortable. Sometimes I'm too lazy to be alive ... other times I come too active to be a ... I don't know what. but most of the time I just exist, doing things for no reason, breathing for no reason, but just trying to live as a regular normal being? but I always fail. Most of people dream to be superb, I always wanted to be just normal, and I always fail. People usually respect me, but they also never agree with me. Maybe I'm trying to be a romantic rational person. but of course in theory I would fail, and I guess I failed.
Damn, I don't know anything. I guess I'm going really crazy ...

Ma3eesh Masary

Well, for a long time, I believed that the important thing is your work, your personality, and money always came in the second place, for me I believed it's only a tool.
As from the last period, I found out, that I was mistaken, if you don't have money, you are nothing, you are the amount of money you have.
You don't have to pay money, you only just need to have them. In a situation you would be discussed to be accepted, another one (who has money) would be accepted without negotiation. I really hate these things, until lately I felt really discriminated by it, although I deserved a thing more than another one, the other was accepted (he really has a lot of money), maybe I cannot judge what really happened, but I felt it this way, it was really annoying to me.
I guess, I need to join Fight Club.

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt at Fight Club):
Advertising has its taste in cars and clothes ... working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
We're the middle children of history, man.
No purpose or place.
We have no Great War ... no Great Depression.
Our Great War is a spiritual war.
Out Great Depression is our lives.
We've been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars.
But we won't, We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Random Crazy Weirdo Thoughts

Justice is Blind. Justice halls painted green. Does he have the right to do something?
From the beginning of the previous century, the terms right and wrong, good and evil, had a lot of troubles surviving, these terms needed some kind of relation to something, you can say this thing is right for some kind of culture or religion or any kind of ideology.
In the end they depended on power, the one who has power, is the one who has the right. Like did the US had the right to invade Iraq? Well depending on our culture, maybe not, but did that matter, they invaded it anyway, and who could've stopped them, depending on there power, yes they had the right.
And now the question that is lately so much asked, did this Danish newspaper had the right to publish these cartoons? Till now nothing is clear, as the forces are not really visible. And does freedom of speech allows them to do that? well if we can get a couple of years before, when Bin Laden destroyed the Buddha's statues, did he had the right to do so? Well it appears that he had, nobody had complained. Like Buddhism is not a religion or something, and he did not discriminate them. Every day in our life a lot of people discriminates Buddhas, Hindus, Maharishis ..., and you know that is not discrimination, as those people has no power, and depending on our culture they are wrong, and they are stupid, and they are just a few unbelievers, cause they have gods other than ours, and we also swear at Jews, even in the fact that it is forbidden in Islam, but we consider them as enemies of god, even they believe in god, and we also consider them to hate Muslims, forgetting about some Jews who supported us and our case (Like Felicia Langer), but who cares, they don't complain about it here.
I remember before a couple of years, I was watching Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC, where I don't really remember whom he was talking to (I guess it was Chris Rock), who said that this is the end of time, implying somethings about the current time (I remember that he said that the best rapper is white, the best Golf player is Black, France is accusing US to be arrogant ... etc.), well I guess it's really the end of time, US is teaching Europeans how to respect religions, Britten is accusing the rest of Europe with being Racist (which the Britons were always not ?!), the Arabs are teaching Europeans the freedom of speech, And Syria is the first country to take her ambassadors out of Denmark between the Arabs based on a religious issue, Man it's really the end of time.
And at the end, what does Muslims really want from all of this Danish thing? aren't we having enough troubles with the rest of the world (Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Iran)? do we need a new one? and what does the other European journals (who republished the cartoons) are up to? and how is it going to end? are we going to forget as usual? or it's going for eternity?
I guess everything is going crazy around here. This planet is lacking a lot of logic, I guess everybody is going crazy (including me). (Eza janno rab3ak 3aglak ma benfa3ak, If your people are gone crazy, your mind is not of good use for you!).

Resistance By Souha Béchara

Yesterday, I got sick, I couldn’t go to work; actually I couldn’t leave my house. As being in my bed where there is nothing much to do, I got a good chance to read a book that I’ve bought lately. It was Resistance (مقاومة) by Souha Béchara.

أن بكبر المرء أثناء الحرب الأهلية ويتقلد السلاح في العشرين، ويطلق الرصاص على قائد جيش لبنان الجنوبي ويصمد على مدار عشر سنوات في معتقل الخيام وجحيمه ... تلك هي الصورة المؤثرة للغاية التي رسمتها امرأة استعصت دوماً على الاستسلام.

What a great book, this is the first book that I’ve ever read that really gets deep inside me, a book that I could feel my tears on my cheek with every word I read.

إنها سهى بشارة، ذلك الرمز الحي للمقاومة اللبنانية. ففي العام 1988، وهي بالكاد جاوزت عمر المراهقة، حاولت سهى أن تقضي على قائد المليشيا الملحقة بإسرائيل والمكلفة العمل على حماية وجود الاحتلال في جنوب لبنان. وحالما اعتقلت، سيقت سهى إلى معتقل الخيام حيث تعرضت لتعذيب قاسٍ وطويل.

With every word I read from this book, I felt her pain. I really felt how beautiful she is, and how much pain she’s been through.
Ms. Béchara, Thank you for this great book. I really recommend it.

We Lost More Than 20,000 Dollars Yesterday

Of course we don't have this amount of money, but we happened to lose them anyway.
Yesterday, in the end of the day, where there is nothing else to do, Aboud and I, opened the TV, and we passed on NTV, where there was a contest show being broadcasted, the prize for the question was 20,000,000 LBPs (13,309.7$).

ا	ل	ك	و	ي	ت
	ا	ل	ك	و	ي	ت
		ا	ل	ك	و	ي	ت

The question was how many times where the word (الكويت) mentioned, we did our calculations and it was 23. Ok, it's now the time to call, my mobile was out of credit, and his cannot make international calls. Oh my god we tried to figure a way to call, while the show was running and nobody is giving the right answer. Man it was annoying and that girl who was introducing the show solved it, it was really a sad moment for both of us.

The second question was that Match thing (you have to move one match to make the equation correct), it was for 15,000,000 LBPs (9,982.25 $).
It was like 7 – 1 = 2, it was an easy one simply you move one of the 7 matches to make it one, and make the – a + which would be 1 + 1 = 2, and of course we couldn't call. Which made the total of 35,000,000 LBPs (23,291.9$).

Immediately after I figured the second question, we changed the channel, as we just didn't want to loose any other money.

Man it was really annoying.