Hani on travel, technology and life
August 22, 2008 | In: Cairo, Humor, Video
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August 21, 2008 | In: Humor, Life
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hani/2783083593/" title="DSC00134 by hmorsi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3113/2783083593_903aff0c84.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC00134" /></a> First off, I am not...
It's moving season. My university is moving campus and I am moving house. My office, apartment and car are all full of boxes of various sizes. A sense of temporariness is infused into familiar spaces, and there is an urgency to just move and get it over...
August 6, 2008 | In: Egypt, Travel
This a reply that I made to a mailing list discussion on the Wikimania 2008 conference I attended recently. I do realize that not having the entire thread would take it out of context, but the archives to the relevant threads are here. While this is...
July 24, 2008 | In: Technology
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/hani.morsi/BlogStuff/photo#5226652571931439826"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/hani.morsi/SIjM0npa8tI/AAAAAAAABWo/aOWUoLmAskA/s400/Screenshot.png" /></a> I finally got around to installing Ubuntu...
April 29, 2008 | In: Travel
After exactly 25 hours and 14 minutes of travel (of which about 16 hours were in flight), I collapsed on my hotel bed in Anaheim, California. In the US of A for the first time. I am on a 10-day trip: 5 days in Anaheim, CA to attend a higher education...
March 10, 2008 | In: General
Last summer I sold my beloved 1992 black Audi 80. It was slow as a turtle (a rather hefty car with a measly 1.6 liter engine doesn't exactly make for a sprinter) but had technology that surpassed its contemporaries, superb build quality and a very nice...
February 22, 2008 | In: Internet, Random
I curse you unto seven generations and will hunt you down to the End of the Earth. When I am done with you, I'll turn to your next of kin. Now how do I disinfect my blog of pop-up spam?
Which is just another number, right? Its just that I am now another year closer to 30, and 30 leads to 40...and then a few more years and I am out of the picture. Pretty scary. That was my self-pitying thought of the...
