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Archive for October 2006

New WordPress releases

Posted on October 23, 2006, 1:13 pm, by Faisal.

So the people over at WordPress have two new releases: WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. And bbPress is forum software with the WordPress touch, and developed by the same folks. It has some pretty cool features, such as [...]

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Development in Egypt

Posted on October 22, 2006, 5:08 pm, by Faisal.

So I was searching The Daily Star‘s (Egypt) website for some trivial tid-bit when I came across

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Egypt: De-centralization par excellence!

Posted on October 19, 2006, 9:57 pm, by Faisal.

So I discovered lately that I was gravely mistaken in accusing, or even thinking that, the Government of Egypt follows traditional centralization techniques when it comes to power, as per the unwritten laws of authoritarian governments. Why? Hossam El-Hamalawy discusses the issue of Egyptian Security Forces apprehending, incarcerating and torturing leftist activists of El-Arish (Capital [...]

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My favourite things

Posted on October 4, 2006, 10:55 am, by Faisal.

I was tagged by Isabelle of istas to list my 15 favourite things, or so I understood. I don’t usually do tags… but what the hell. And thus… here they are: Kissing. My girl-friend (She might be reading this!) A good Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novel (AKA The Dune Series). History books… and books about the Military. (So [...]

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