Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

بعد ما أجرنا الهرم ما بقيتش عارف أنا بنتمي لأي طبقة

بس سيبك أنت الرقاصة كانت جامدة جدا

و أديني أديني أكتر ... المياه في أيدك سكر

و مع ذلك ما فيش فايدة، perl و كرنل و موديوووول و كفاية و يسقط يسقط و حتى الرقص على باطل و نص، العيال دي عاوزالها أجازة

الناس كلها عمالة تزن و تقول بعد الانتخابات هنتبهدل كلنا، أنا مش مصدق بالمرة و مظنش في حاجة هتحصل. بس أنا برضه كنت مطمئن و باخد اللابتوب معايا المظاهرات لحد ما اتسحلت و اتسرقت، يمكن أكون غلطان و يكون معاهم حق.

دي محاولة أني أعمل حسابي، يمكن كلامهم يصدق و الدنيا تتقلب

عايز أحيي الناس اللي شاركوني اللحظة دي، بس مش هشكر المدونين، مش هشكر القلة اللي تغاضت عن مشاكل أسلوبي و لغتي و أصروا يقرأوا اللي بكتبه حتى لو كان مش عن المظاهرات، مش هشكر اللي اتصلوا بيا يشجعوني أو يطمنوا عليا، مش هشكر اللي حبيتهم من الصحفيين، مش هشكر أهل شبرا اللي احتفوا بينا بدل المرة اتنين. و غيرهم، مش وقتهم دلوقتي

ok couldn't resist it, thats just too much fuel for my ego.

مين الناس اللي صورهم صغيرة دي؟ أكيد ناس مش مهمة و دورهم ثانوي

Alaa: I thought these tagging games where silly but since I learned a thing or two about my dear friend Uniball I find myself obliged to respond when he tags me.

يلا مرة من نفسي

Manal: I decided to join in the game!

10 years ago

10 years ago Alaa was 14, Manal was 13

oh my what interesting time, our formation years you could say, 10 years ago we were taking our first serious steps in a youth organization called Annosoor Assaghera (photos), we organized summer camps, learned about child rights, practiced democracy and had a great fun time with no adults around to bug us, and that's where we met, two years later we'll find ourselves deep in love in a most subtle/organic fashion.

thin line between under and over

I have a tendency to involve myself in way too many things, natural outcome is of course not achieving anything.

the past year was unique, I was focused and determined, and managed to achieve alot, I've been generally content (even happy at times) and I'm quite proud of myself.

but I'm slipping back into my old pattern of confusion again, I don't really follow a plan, as you can clearly see from my EGLUG todo list.

so in a lame attempt to reign in and take control here is a public todo of my public activities

WebWork

eglug.org

EGLUG specific todo list

manalaa.net

• upgrade to drupal 4.6
• get back to adding WiFiHotspots (convince others to join in)

I will be appearing live today on European Radio Service (95.4 FM) at 11:15pm, the program is called Urban Sounds

believe it or not I will not be talking about blogs, politics, or GNU/Linux instead I will be talking about Creative Commons and music.

we'll play some of my favorite open music (all under creative commons license).

anyone with an FM radio tuner please record this for me.

Tracks likely to be played

بعد التفجيرات الوحشية (الله يخرب بيت الارهاب على الارهابيين) في لندن مكسوف شوية وأنا ببعت ده بس أتأخر قوي على جهازي

تسجيل تاني من أحداث الأربعاء الأسود 25 مايو 2005

المقطع من 1:15 الي 2:20 باين فيه الضرب اللي اتعرضتله أنا و والدتي

another video of the events of black wednesday 25th of May 2005

the sequence from 1:15 to 2:20 shows part of what happened to me and my mother that day.

• High Resolution divx 26MB
• Low Resolution divx 16MB

تسجيلات سابقة

previous recordings

today is the أربعين of my poor nibbler, after 40 days of mourning I think I can afford to move on.

so I'm now te proud owner of Shadowfax

yes I got me a new laptop yaaaaaay, this means I'll be adding more wifi hotspots soon, it also means I'm in debt till next year but hey shadowfax is worth it.

wikipedia has this to say about Shadowfax

Shadowfax is a mighty horse of Rohan, the chief of the Mearas, tamed by Gandalf and reluctantly granted as a gift to him (after Gandalf had borrowed him for some time) by King Théoden of the Rohirrim. No Man could tame Shadowfax. He would not tolerate a bridle or saddle, and only carried Gandalf by choice. The great horse also bore a hobbit, Pippin, for a short time during the War of the Ring.

as you all know very well I'm well known and loved all over the world, and this naturally leads to many interviews and I get mentioned in all sorts of media outlets.

but three interviews in three consecutive days? thats a record.

I did a brief interview with the most daring most interesting el ghad radio directly after my small skirmish with nabil el ezabi, but unfortunately I failed to record that. (Ihab can you send me a copy of the interview? please?)

then on thursday after the streets are ours (will blog about it soon), Me, Manal, Amr Gharbeia and Nora where invited to el ghad radio for a lengthy interview on المعارضة النهاردة with al ghad's first lady.

and finally on friday I did a skypecast interview (I used my phone so you can't blackmail me for using proprietary software) with Ethan from globalvoices

SlashDotInterview turned out to be a great success, Alaa is a famous guy now, everyone loves him, this time there was almost no racism (we must have misjudged slashdotters then) and very few trolls even though we got 530+ comments. Alaa met wonderful people, made new friends, got invited to Orkut and we did not get slashdotted.

The Interview

Yay Alaa is famous; slashdot is doing an interview with him http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/05/1354234 .

Man look at the racist comments, we never could stomach slashdot, the trick ?MadFarmAnimalz tells us is to browse at +5!!!.

Anyway this is the first time we expose ourselves to racism (is this how it feels to be black, female, homosexual, jewish, copt, palestinian.... hell its probably even worse), but what scares us the most is how misinformed slashdotters are,maybe we should start a ?SlashDottersGuideToEgypt one day.

come to think of it this is probably a good idea, I doubt you can find a photo of an ?EgyptianBus or an ?EgyptianClassRoom on the web.