Jana told me (June 20th, 2009)

She came back from Lebanon full of energy and enthusiasm. She is still missing her grand parents and looking for my mother around the house from time to time.

Today she started yelling: "Ya Bila..." around the house. We are happy to see her recognizing some words and some language structures as well. Her mother is not happy though to see our daughters calling us with our names instead of "Mama" and "Papa".

Jana called me more than 100 times "Ya Bila..." and I was always answering her "Na3am" (yes in Arabic). This issue reminded me of this clip:

What is this?

I am not sure whether she would, when she gets older, that I call her by her name more than 100 times in one hour !!!

What if we treat the Quran like our cell phones?

Cell phone vs Quran

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Quran like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried  it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we flipped  through it several time a day?
What if we turned  back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we used it  to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated  it like we couldn't live without it? 
What if we gave it  to kids as gifts? 
What if we used it  when we traveled?
What if we used it  in case of emergency?
his is something  to make you go....hmm...where is my Quran?
Oh, and one more  thing.

Unlike our cell  phone, we don't have to worry about our Quran being disconnected
Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities? And  no dropped calls!

Skilled labour rules may be loosened

By DAVID AKIN
December 15, 2008

The federal government is changing a key immigration rule it says will help Canadian companies more easily find skilled foreign labour.
Ottawa is announcing today that such skilled professionals as engineers, accountants or professors from the U.S. or Mexico will be able to get three-year long work permits instead of one-year permits.
"We are trying to get all the skilled people we can to Canada quickly," Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said in a telephone interview from Vancouver. "The last thing we want is to strangle a Canadian company that's ready to grow because of a shortage of labour."
Canada grants about 5,150 such permits every year. Most, about 5,000, are for Americans coming to work in Canada and the rest are for Mexicans coming to work here.
"I talk to employers all the time who do not get even one job application when they put a help wanted ad in the newspaper," Kenney said. "Even though we are going into a period of economic difficulty, we continue to have a number of skilled labour shortages in certain areas of the economy."
Kenney said granting work permits in three-year increments will help Canadian companies because employers will be able to count on a skilled import to complete a project. The government says this makes Canadian companies more competitive and can help lower costs.
"This is about less paperwork, less red tape and less waiting time," Kenney said.
The Canadian rule change follows a similar one made in October by U.S. authorities that allow Canadian engineers, computer scientists and other professionals to obtain three-year work permits in the U.S. Mexico is also considering such a change.

What is God for you??

Isn't He the one Whom you'll be able to talk to anytime and without taking any previous appointment?

Isn't He the One Whom you'll be asking for anything, anytime, freely and unconditionally?

Isn't He the One Who will always be there whether you are aware of Him or not?

Isn't He the One Who will ever be with you irrespective of whoever has left you?

Isn't He after all the One who deserves all your attention, love, and obedience... isn't He the One and Only One who deserves to be worshiped?

Source: What does God mean to you?

SONY Innovative poster

It is not Sony innovation only, its partners are competing as well to deliver the best message about new products.

php_flag settings when PHP runs as CGI (.htaccess / register_globals / php.ini)

A lot of people got puzzled because .htaccess does not work when PHP is running as CGI under Apache. Searching on the internet for a potential solution does not give an easy way to solve the problem.

The easiest is to create a php.ini file inside the folder where you want to set the flags in and voila.

For example, to set register_globals off, create a php.ini with the following

register_globals = Off 

Upload this file to that folder and try now phpinfo() to see the local settings for register_globals. Yes it is off.
This setting in important to get rid of the warning you got from Joomla or Moodle.

PHP is really an amazing language.

Gmail Down again

I totally understand that this is a free beta service used as is and there is no guarantee for the super reliability of the service.

However, what is calling for wonder is whether this is due to kind of internal maintenance or an external DDoS attack.