Archive for August, 2005

Google Halts Book Scanning

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

At least for now, Google has halted its master plan to scan millions
of books into its database with intentions of allowing people to search them
using its mega-search-engine. Now that their 1-billion-page-dash
has been temporarily halted, we have time to pause for reflection.
Publishing companies threw a fit at the prospect of Google throwing
their copyrighted [...]

Iraqi women will be more oppressed?

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

Apparently people in Boston don’t get out much, but that’s the topic of another discussion. The Boston Herald ran an article questioning whether the women of Iraq would be more oppressed if Iraq develop their constitution based on shari’ah.
“But during the past year, Shiites have applied mounting pressure to replace the civil code with [...]

To be in Love

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

I think too many of us (Muslim and non-Muslim) underestimate the importance of Love in our lives. Many single people stay single because they see marriage as binding and boring. They shun love as they would shun a disease.
No doubt, love is an illness, and “falling in love” is a very dangerous adventure. [...]

Respecting Elders

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

The other day, some friends of my wife’s mother came to visit. Masha’Allah, they are lively, pious intellectuals, and I enjoyed their company.
What I love most, however, is just listening to older people talk about their travels and experiences. They always have such a tremendous amount of wisdom to convey to us. [...]

Conquer my deskop? Nay! Conquer Everything!

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

I've become completely reliant on Konqueror (I can just hear the KDE (http://www.kde.org)
developers cackling in the background, muhahahahahaha ). Yes, I know I
know. I am like Mr. Firefox (http://www.spreadfirefox.com). I'm even typing this on Firefox (http://www.spreadfirefox.com) as we
speak. But that's not the point.
I now do most of my web browing on Konqueror, mainly because [...]

Don’t like the Qur’an? Change it!

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

Somehow, this sort of coincides with what I just posted
Tampering with the Text

Drivel

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

I’ve installed Drivel on my desktop…still have BloGTK on my laptop. This is getting pretty cool. There are a couple of things that have been brought to my attention over the past week, from reading and from the Friday khutbah:
1. Our future depends upon Allah’s favor that He has granted to us (Islam), [...]

One word:

Friday, August 5th, 2005

6th graders.

Times, they are a changin’

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Two big announcements in two different directions:
1. Novell has announced OpenSuSE (http://www.suse.com), a plan to make SuSE (http://www.suse.com) Linux (http://www.linux.org) open source and community driven. It will be similar to the Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/) model, a spin-off of the old Redhat (http://www.redhat.com) Linux (http://www.linux.org), which pushes code back into Redhat (http://www.redhat.com) Enterprise Linux (http://www.linux.org). [...]

BloGTK

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Hello,
This is a test of BloGTK that I just installed on my laptop.
Test
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