New delicious.com Account

August 19th, 2010 internet

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.

Stop this Law #stopthislaw

June 15th, 2010 Lebanon, Uncategorized, internet, politics, societyTags: essa, law, Lebanon

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)!

Related Posts from the blogesphere: http://delicious.com/lebnights/essa

ملتقى النساء التقنيات العرب

April 8th, 2010 Technology, blogging, female, internetTags: arab, arab-techies, event, Lebanon, Technology, women

Lebanon Threatening Voices!

March 29th, 2010 Lebanon, blogging, internet, politics, وآكلةTags: censorship, cyber, internet, Lebanon, online

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.

This Blog is Against Cyber Censorship

March 12th, 2010 Lebanon, Technology, Uncategorized, arab, blogging, campaign, internetTags: censorship, cyber, internet, online

New RTL-This Tutorial

November 30th, 2009 blogging, greetings, internet, rtl-this, webdevTags: feast, greetings, internet, news, rtl, rtl-this, tutorial

So I managed to write a simple tutorial that consists of three parts about how to RTL a simple webpage:

1. RTLing a Hello World WebPage: http://rtl-this.com/tutorial/rtling-hello-world-webpage
2. Getting to Know the HTML/CSS: http://rtl-this.com/tutorial/rtling-hello-world-webpage-getting-know-htmlcss
3. RTLing: http://rtl-this.com/tutorial/rtling-hello-world-webpage-rtling

I hope it’s useful to someone

I received links and feedback from several readers about the RTL of the Web. I didn’t expect to get that help that was very kind, sweet and simply amazing. Thank you so much I’ll publish them all soon.

One more thing: if you’re a web designer and have the time and will to design a (free) blog template so it can be flipped in a tutorial and be available to be downloaded let me know so we can work work on something together.

وعيد أضحى مبارك

(ماتؤاخذوني مأخرة شوي)

RTL This..finally!

October 28th, 2009 Technology, Uncategorized, internet, programming, rtl-this, webdevTags: css, drupal, html, internet, rtl, rtl-this, web design, web development

I finally managed to do it There is an actual blog called RTL This now and guess what..I used Drupal this time

I added some explanation posts(okay just 1 or 2 ) and the tutorials are coming soon.

Let me know what you think…I really hope someone would find it useful..

RTL This

October 5th, 2009 Uncategorized, arab, blogging, internet, language, rtl-thisTags: arab, blogs, rtl, rtl-this, tempates, themes

It has always bothered me the very limited collection of RTL(right-to-left) blog templates/themes..whether it’s for Blogger, WordPress or Drupal or any other Blogging platform or CMS. Web Designers and Developers might not find a problem since they can flip it themselves in couple of hours depending on the design itself.

The other part of Arab Bloggers (the majority) do not have the enough skills to do such tasks. So we end up with:

1. A very limited number of RTL themes that we see everywhere (especially Blogger)
2. And the many many LTR (left-to-right) themes that simply don’t look nice with the Arabic content (although usually they’re very beautifull themes)

The ideal solution I want? Is to convince all of the web designers and developers of the world to include an RTL version of their themes! We have to wait for that a really long time..

So what can we do? communicate! We can share our ideas and skills to help enriching this poor space of the web. There are really beautifull themes out there and they will look even more beautifull if they fit well with our Arabic content.

I will start hopefully before the end of this year to share my own tips and tricks on how to deal with the RTL side of the web. I’m not a guru, and I’m not a pro, but I want to share what I know and learn what you know. I have thought of naming this learning experience “RTL This”. What do you think? I’d love to know your opinion..

Gmail Day Dreams…

February 24th, 2009 google, internet, society

…or more likely Nightmares.
I didn’t care much when I knew about the Gmail outage. I was at work with hundreds of stuff to do…

10 minutes later, I started to freak out, I thought about every web-application, account, subscription and contacts I use..Most of them (if not All) depend on my Gmail account. I even use Gmail for online file storage :$. I would literally die ‘virtually’ without it.*

Although the idea of Google owning us all (what I concluded from the freakig out) may annoy some, I still like Google. At least it united the world for a couple of hours for a good cause: Communication. That’s what we all humans are here for **…right?

* (I know only the Web Interface was down and it wasn’t that bad. I tend to dramatize things).
**(And we suck at it).

Geocities 1996

February 11th, 2009 funny, internet, webdev

If you’re into web design, then you definitely heard about ‘CSS Zen Garden‘.According to the Zen Garden it’s:

A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

In short it’s a place where web designers can show off their skills and designs. You take the plain HTML markup they give you, work on a design, style the HTML you took with CSS without changing a single bit in the HTML. It’s pretty challenging and that’s why you see wonderful submissions from around the world…

My favorite was the “Retro Theatre” theme. Until I saw the “Geocities 1996” one. Watch out before viewing it…It can hurt your eyes The author said he was nostalgic when he decided to create this beautifull mess, I mean design . He’s brilliant!

I hope this motivates you to submit your own Zen Garden CSS Design.