People queued outside a local bookshop in Budaiya (the area I live in which is about 20kms north-east of Manama) at [b]2AM[/b] to get their mitts on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! The shop has never opened at that time of the day, yet more than 50 people with kids in fancy …
What a day! Mozilla (last night’s build as well as 1.4rc2) just give us the ghost when I visit blogdex for some reason! It also happes sometimes when there’s a javascript – not sure about this one as I loaded java applets ok. In any case I thought this was due to the nvidia driver …
Didn’t do much yesterday, weekend and bbq with my brother Hani, his wife and lovely daughter Laura. But today I discovered that RedHat’s bunlded XMMS player doesn’t play mp3 files due to patent issues. If you want to get it to play, get xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm and install it (rpm -ivh xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm) and you’re set!
It’s been almost a couple of months since I started blogging so I thought it’s time to get to know my visitors and how they got here. Of course one way is to look at the guestmap (thank you to all those who left a message there), the posts and comments which there are plenty …
according to this site: Your name of Mahmood indicates you are a very capable, systematic, and thorough person with talents for mechanics, accounting, computers, teaching, law, construction, and similar fields. You plan ahead, giving careful consideration to detail. Because of your efficiency you attract a great deal of responsibility, and you are inclined to worry …