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    May 31

    Windows Live 2 beta

    Microsoft at last released the beta version of its windows live 2 products like Windows Live messenger,Windows live Mail and windows live writer

    The most important of that bundle to is windows live writer because this is what I use to post to my blogs ,and guess what it is great whether for the GUI or new features that were added to it , really it was worth to be waited ,it is improved with new capabilities of course better with windows live spaces,wordpress ,Movable type and typepad

    It is highly recommended if you are windows user like along with the other windows live 2 as they will make your windows experience better :)

    Already I am using the windows live Mail desktop client and it is great , working with my two Hotmail accounts and AOL account , you can add gmail and yahoo too

    P.S I forgot to tell you I was a beta tester for several for the windows Live product , the last one was Window Live Hotmail ;) 

    Please Check it ,I highly recommend it Microsoft is not that evil for God sake

    May 29

    Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign

    I don't need to speak about it , there is a human tragedy there and we all must do something in the possible way we can  

    Link to Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign

     

    May 15

    UK man becomes an Indian goddess'

    Well this is old somehow

    With my all respect it seems to me that the world sometimes is walking in the other side

    I mean an English man goes to India to become a goddess !!

    Yes I understand the idea of the incarnation in the other religions and cultures especially in the Asian religions like the Buddhism and Hinduism but this is really weird and strange

    Already the man looks scary with his hear and Sari !!

    I don't attack any belief here but I am trying to use my mind thinking loud , already I don't like other bloggers do , famous for and even their blogs become the top from attacking other religions and believes

    I am just asking how can a man consider to be a god or even a goddess which is much ridiclious in a way the mind can't accept !!

    A man sleeps,feels sick,feels hungry , wants to go to the toliet , a man farts , a man bleeds and feels pain ,  a man dies

    so how he can be considered God !!

    But honestly I respect the way the BBC covered this incident because they didn't laugh or mock anyone and this is what the journalism should be

    Link to BBC NEWS | South Asia | UK man's new life as Indian goddess'

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    May 06

    Stand up comedy in Egypt !!

    What do you think about that ,a Stand up comedy in Egypt !!??

    I don't have anything against it and I believe it is funny in the United States  and many comedians started their artistic lives and way in stardom in it like Sienfield, Eddy Murphy and Jim Carey

    But I don't know if it will meet success in Egypt

    Egyptians are very funny and we love comedy ,we are from the rare people of the world who can make fun of their own misery

    The blockbusters in the Egyptian box office are the comedies , the oldest documented political joke was found in one of the ancient tombs in Luxor , we adore comedy but I don't know if we are going to accept this sort of comedy

    may be we can ,already Egypt for decades till now loves the comic monologue and its famous monologists like Hamda Sultan yet when I read for those who want to present the stand up comedy I believe they want to present it in its western style

    I don't have to say that the trials of having a sitcom in Egypt were big failure and till now they don't want to stop producing it every Ramadan like Tamer and Shawkia and Ahmed married Mona , because of the huge success for the American sitcoms like Friends

    Of course I believe the Sitcom problem in Egypt is the lake of real comedy writers not to mention that many of these sitcoms are away for the Egyptian life , they are a copycat from the western life and western sitcom for example Tamer and Shawkia is a copycat from Dharma and Greg ,the only difference is that Shawkia is a teacher born for two low class vulgar parents who has a half drunk- half high brother not like Dharma ,unemployed hippie girl !!

    I think the sitcom which will meet a huge success in Egypt will be something like Friends based upon the daily life in Egypt not in America , Friends succeeded because it is from the daily American life not even the European daily life but the simple American daily life of six friends living in the big apple , simple friends from the middle class

    In the 1960s Egyptian TV used to present a TV series similar to the Sitcom I once saw on Channel one in that fantastic TV show which was terminated for some hidden reason "The TV Archives" this TV series was called "Customs and Traditions" ,despite the fact it was kind of educational TV series promoting the socialist kind of thinking and denouncing the old traditions in Egypt which some of them were really wrong , yet it was funny , the best thing in it that it was Egyptian ,regardless of the messages in it , but for the historical record at that time in 1960s and even now most Art works on National TV must hold the values the regime sees as suitable for the Egyptian people

    Anyhow back to the stand up comedy , the best and only thing we can do is to wish for this experience luck in Egypt not for any reason but laughter nowadays is expensive in the valley of the nile

    I can't remember the last Egyptian joke I laughed on

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    May 05

    DA Vinci code "the movie"

    At last I saw the movie itself legally already I was from the lucky people who put their hands on an original copy from the Novel before its banning whether literally or cinematically in Egypt

    I bought a pirate copy from the movie from few months in order to watch it , but to say the truth many things happened in life made me forget that there was a film CD over my shelf with that name till I found that it was going to be aired exclusively in the middle east through the Showtime network in its Pay for view Home cinema service and I just couldn't resist the temptation.

    I won't speak about the novel or the plot but I will speak about the movie

    I think it is good despite that there were some difference between the film script and the novel,some I understand why and some other I don't understand why like in the end that Sophie will discover that she is not the grand daughter of the Louvre Curator,also I don't understand why they neglect the surveillance room that French Police would find in Sir Leigh's Chateau !!

    Silas is still my favorite character assassin and I think he is one of the most complicated assassin characters in western literature

    I love Audrey Tautoue ,seriously since Amilie and this sweet french girl is my favorite

    Tom Hanks ,well I don't need to speak about him ,his name is enough ,by the way he is very popular in Egypt thanks to the master piece of Forest Gamp

    In the end I think Ron Howard and Tom Hanks were right to go on for angels and demons to make a series its hero not a super macho Bond type man but a man of Science called Robert Langdon ,a cryptology professor who fears from closed places and a history policeman

    May 01

    The Arabic version of the Dating game !!

    I remember I knew there was once upon time a TV show in the American ABC network in the 1960s with name of the "Dating game" when I was watching the thriller "confessions of a dangerous mind" , a biography about the man behind the show Chuck Barris in which he claimed that he was working for the C.I.A as a hitman , a very interesting movie directed by George Loony you must see.

    The idea of the show then was considered silly that was widely characterized in America

    The game was a bachelorette would ask questions written in advance on cards to each of the three bachelors. The same question could be asked to multiple bachelors. This continued until time ran out. The bachelorette would make her choice based solely on the answers to her questions.Typically, a bachelorette would question three bachelors, who were hidden from her view; at the end of the questioning period, she would choose one to go out with on a date paid for by the show. Occasionally, the roles would be reversed with a man questioning three ladies.

    Back then even the American society didn't accept the idea that easily , of course now it is nothing compared to the reality TV

    Why do I bother you with this showbiz historical info my dear Egyptian chronicles ??

    Well simply because as soon as I read this repot in "Elaph.com" in Arabic about this Show in the LBC channel ,I remember the Dating game , in fact it is a kind of mix between the "Dating and wedding game" if there is a show called "the wedding game" as it is not about dating but marriage according to the rules of the "Dating game" !!

    It is called "Albi Dalili" ,in English " My heart is my guide" which is the name of the famous song by legendry Leila Muard and directed by the famous Lebanese variety director of "Studio El-Fan" Simon Asmar

    Really I am shocked to the level we reached in our Arab society as if we need this kind "I am sorry to use the word" of crap , already I don't know why LBC is specialiezed in this useless time wasting TV shows ,copy cat from the west to create a new class of ignorant generations, I am sorry if my words seem too big but this is the reality ,I won't speak about the LBC and its role in Lebanon whether politicaly or Socially because this channel proved in the last lebanon july war that it is not a real lebanese channel !!

    No respect at all to what really marriage and companision mean , No respect at all to our Eastern and Arabic traditions

    It is not about the Eastern Islamic or Christian traditions , because also the Christians in the Arab world will and are refusing this sort of TV shows !!

    It is so disgusting , really disgusting