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New delicious.com Account

August 19th, 2010
internet
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I’ve been cleaning up my online accounts lately and today was delicious.com‘s day.

Here’s the new account:

http://www.delicious.com/layalk

Note: The old one(lebnightS) will not be deleted but I’ve copied the bookmarks to the new one.

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إكتشفت إنّو

August 10th, 2010
Lebanon, إكتشاف
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فيه ناس كانت متوقعة تشوف تصوير فيديو لواحد إسرائيلي عم يعترف لمرته بعد ليلة حميمة…

إنه مكلّف بمهمة إغتيال الحريري بال2005!!

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One comment..

July 8th, 2010
Lebanon, Religion, arab, racism
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..about this Octavia Nasr’s whole issue:

She shouldn’t have “apologized” or “explained” herself!

I’m 100% against what happened to her(she’s fired because of a personal tweet!),

but the fact that she “explained” and “regretted” what happened is simply ridiculous!

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Lock’em Up!

June 29th, 2010
Lebanon, campaign, female, society, وآكلة
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يعمل صديق لي بشركة شاءت الصدف أن يكون بجوارها مكتب “لإستقدام الخادمات”

(جمع مصطلح إستقدام وخادمات طبيعي جداً في هذا السياق بالنسبة لرئيس الشركة أو “المالك” ربما؟)

بالمناسبة, المبنى نفسه مبنى مكاتب وشركات ولا يوجد أي شقق سكنية فيه ولا أعتقد أنه مجهز للسكن حتى

المهم..صاحب الشركة أو المالك(يمكنكم إختيار المصطلح المناسب) المصون قرر أن يبيت أو “يخزن” خادماته المستقدمات في مكتب الشركة

أكثر من 10 صبايا يسكنن في هذا المكتب وبحوذتهن المفتاح الأكيد(طبعاً حنون الزلمي)

نعود لصديقي..الذي فوجيء منذ فترة بورقة ممضاة من أصحاب المكاتب بالمبنى على أن مدخل المبنى سيتم قفله بعد الثامنة مساءً

السبب؟ خروج الصبايا, عفواً ”الخادمات المستقدمات” ليلاً الذي أدى إلى فضيحة المبنى وتشويه سمعته

بعد نقاشات وإعتراض صديقي على الموضوع…تم تنفيذ القرار لكن مع إعطاء الصبايا المفتاح

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كتبت هذا المقطع من هذه التدوينة منذ شهرين تقريباً كمساهمة في حملة 24/7

لكن لم يتم نشرها بسبب ضيق الوقت وعدم قدرتي على كتابة خاتمة تشرح شعوري تجاه موقف اللبنانيين من العاملات الأجانب من آسيا و أفريقيا

لذا سوف أنشرها كما هي..من دون أي تعديل..على أمل أن تجد الصبايا الخاتمة لمأساتهن في هذا البلد!

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Stop this Law #stopthislaw

June 15th, 2010
Lebanon, Uncategorized, internet, politics, society
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I lost hope in this country a long time ago..I know for sure that it’s not going forward in any way..But to go backwards? This country and its official keep surprising of how low they can be..

How could you write down a law to monitor anything that doesn’t exist yet?? Give us decent internet or any telecommunication mean and then write your stupid laws(we won’t accept them then either).

Internet has been the only free (kind of) air we could breath in this miserable country..and now they’re getting their dirty hands on it..And what REALLY REALLY REALLY pisses me off is that the civil society is not allowed to comment!!

What can you about it? ACT NOW(by smex)!

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ملتقى النساء التقنيات العرب

April 8th, 2010
Technology, blogging, female, internet
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أول مرّة سمعت بملتقى النساء العرب كان بلقاء المدونين العرب

كان رأيي ببساطة “فكرة أكثر من رائعة”

وأخيراً الفكرة تحققت (شكراً منال)

كل التفاصيل عن تنظيم الملتقى في الفترة من 11 إلي 14 أيار/ مايو 2010 في منطقة الذوق، جونية، لبنان موجودة هنا في بيان الإعلان عن الملتقى:

يمكن للراغبات في المشاركة الاتصال بنا على info@arabtechies.net أو من خلال الموقع

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Lebanon Threatening Voices!

March 29th, 2010
Lebanon, blogging, internet, politics, وآكلة
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Only five days after the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, the Lebanese government decided to keep up with its neighbors in the Arab World. Its first attempt was with the Lebanese blogger Khodor Salameh, aka jou3an -hungry in Arabic- because of a post he wrote about the president. They demanded him to change his tone, close his blog or just stick to poetry or he might be prosecuted!

I’m speechless and furious!!!

Lebanon, Welcome to Threatened Voices!*

*Threatened Voices is a project of Global Voices to defend the free online speech, it’s a:

A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them.

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New RSS Feed

March 23rd, 2010
blogging
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I’m cleaning up my accounts and feeds,

so this blog’s RSS feed has moved from

http://feeds.feedburner.com/lebnightS to

http://feeds.feedburner.com/layalk

The old one will be deleted soon, so if you’re subscribed to my RSS feed, please update it.

Many Thanks

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This Blog is Against Cyber Censorship

March 12th, 2010
Lebanon, Technology, Uncategorized, arab, blogging, campaign, internet
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Today (March 12), “Reporters Without Borders” are celebrating the World Day Against Cyber Censorship.

Maybe we cannot relate with the subject in Lebanon since this virtual side of this messed up country is still free (so far) but it doesn’t mean we’re off the hook. If they’re not doing anything about what’s being said in our blogesphere, it doesn’t mean they don’t want to, they just don’t know how…yet!

I mean we’ve seen some of their “intentions” when they tried to shut down the TV show “LOL” because of some “inappropriate” jokes!

To see what we might be facing in the future, nothing is more clear and frightening than the list of the bloggers at Threatned Voices who have been threatened, arrested or killed because of their words online!

What anti-censorship means to me? Freedom! Our most basic right as human beings! We need to be free to express our feelings, thoughts and opinions with no fear of anyone! Censorship by other parties usually ends up with self-censorship, you’ll end up imprisoning yourself if they don’t do it themselves! Which is more dangerous to me..

How companies and governments should act in regard to this censorship? Not by only allowing others to talk freely online, but by making sure they have the means to do so. In Lebanon, they can start by offering a decent internet and telecommunications infrastructure..

Note: You can also read more about the “Web2.0 vs. Control 2.0” at RSF