See you on EED

I’m planning to be on EED next Monday isA.. Probably, I’d be there all day.. checking the projects, attending a couple of sessions, attending the closing ceremony (Hoping for some “BOOOM, BOOOM, BOOM, HELWAN!!” :D) & hopefully meeting up with some of FCIH old & new folks..
BTW, EED is starting tomorrow, I’m just too lazy to go tomorrow :D.. Also for the working gals.. Egypt WIE, are doing there first forum about “Work-life Balance” on the EED this year too.. I’m wondering why it’s still called Egyptian Engineering Day :D..
So meet you there folks..

Quote of the Moment

"If I had more time I'd write a shorter letter." — Mark Twain

Tribute to Marwa

This post has been updated alot since I first wrote it.. so please excuse my lack of organization :)

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First, let me announce that a site is in the making (I'm not involved in anyway, (hopefully) "yet") in the memory of Marwa.. The site is MarwaElSherbiny.com

NOTE: Remember you can always use Google Language tools to translate the pages 

News:
Egypt funeral for stabbing victim: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/20097612424648553.html
Egypt mourns 'headscarf martyr': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8136500.stm
The headscarf martyr: murder in German court sparks Egyptian fury: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/german-trial-hijab-murder-egypt
Burial of the Egptian woman racially killed in Germany (Arabic): http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/worldnews/2009/07/090705_ah_racist_attack_germany-tc2.shtml
Egyptians angry over German court slaying (6 Days late, check their summary to the incidence in the “Story Highlights” section!!): http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/egypt.woman.killed/index.html Islamophobia victim was pregnant, body arrives from Germany: http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=22902
The German Embassy is Following up on Marwa El-Sherbini Killing; Her Family to Take Body Back to Egypt Today: http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article2.aspx?ArticleID=217708
Marwa killed due to propaganda against Muslims (Arabic): http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/EXERES/66B429F4-7E40-4325-9751-0434271DB1C2.htm
Egyptian woman killed in German court for being veiled (One of the best I’ve read, IMHO): http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/07/06/egyptian-woman-killed-in-german-court-for-being-veiled/
Marwa’s Husband emerged from the coma to the news of her death .. He was in tears that he wasn’t able to save her: http://www.shorouknews.com/ContentData.aspx?id=70500

Blogs:
Her only crime was the veil, Anderson Cooper 360° (Again was too late several days – 10-11 – & strangely the incidence data is not exactly right) : http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/10/her-only-crime-was-the-veil/
A murder that Germany ignored: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/10/germany-murder-marwa-sherbini
Marwa. Mainstream Media Fail? AGAIN? (this guy said it all): http://fakeplasticsouks.blogspot.com/2009/07/marwa-mainstream-media-fail-again.html
What If She Were A Lesbian: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-if-she-were-lesbian.html
The west should be more reasonable (Arabic):http://www.lastoadri.com/2009/07/blog-post.html

Is this is the German democracy? In its (Germany) courtrooms, Muslims are being attacked: http://www.sadafat.com/?p=562
I hate everything about You!: http://blog.hichamaged.net/i-hate-everything-about-you/
Not Fair!!!!: http://lebnights.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-fair.html
Marwa El-Sherbany came back again to Egypt !!!: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/marwa-el-sherbany-came-back-again-to.html
All the links from Bikya Masr; allegedly the first blog to report the incidence: http://bikyamasr.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/bm-news-all-bikya-masr-links-on-marwa-killing/ 
Marwa Al-Sherbini: Killed For Wearing A Headscarf But At What Point Do We Say “Enough”?: http://www.black-iris.com/2009/07/07/marwa-al-sherbini-killed-for-wearing-a-headscarf-but-at-what-point-do-we-say-enough/

Pix:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahmedcarlos/tags/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A/
http://alexhopealex.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html
http://alexhopealex.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_06.html
http://alexhopealex.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_223.html

Vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSmIcEbCHQ (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8tZtBrZH6s (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tw6fhdeol8 (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3keduYo5sBo (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B5hmOE6EQM (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m0h_ZpGKWQ (Arabic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwkxscz4Dqw (Arabic) 

Check twitter (trends) for more:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=Marwa
http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=Marwa&span=168

Please join the Petition:   http://petol.org/marwa
& keep spreading the word about Marwa.. On twitter please use #Marwa coz it’s the shortest & most commonly used hash tag used there about Marwa..
IMHO, most of the main stream media (most of the news section above) not only reported the incidence too late (even Arabic speaking news agencies), but also reported mainly (or focused on) the Egyptian reaction as if it’s irrational without much mentioning of the racist act that caused that reaction!

Things that piss me off when someone sends me email!!

• When someone forward a message that was sent before to like 100 mail address, & forgot to delete the (irrelevant) email addresses, & they just went there as a part of the message (& growing)!!
• When someone send me a message, along with a 100 other addresses (including mine) in the CC or To field not the BCC, while the recipients don't know one another & even won't need to know one another (for eg chain email messages). Off course if this "someone" in this point did put them in the BCC, we will find less "someones" do the previous point by mistake!!
• When different people in my social network forward to me the same email (which was 1st sent by some in their extended social networks to all of them) & someone (from the chain(s) between the 1st sender & me) gets the idea that it's brilliant to change the message title!! Leaving me, not only suffering of receiving the same message again & again & again!! Naaah!! (s)he give me the extra pain of spreading them across multiple threads in my inbox :@:@ (If you're not using gMail u won't feel the difference, you’re already suffering too much to feel it :D!!)
• When someone CC me in a conversation that I don't give a "….." about.
• When someone reply to conversation happening among a number of people (me included) & then replies on behalf of me (usually the reply is a commitment from them that I -Shady- will do something. As if they are my agent/lawyer :D).
• When someone (specially admins) hijack mailing-lists by sending/allowing mail that is totally irrelevant to the mailing-list main topic.
• When someone tries to use religion (actually this isn't just about email, I see that all the time) to make sure you forward their SPAM to your whole mailing list. Usually I delete similar email just for the sake of it. (3end)
• When someone send too old news that circulated the internet for like a 100 times. Specially if they were well known hoax!!

This post was in my drafts for like 6 month, & since I started it I had the Ericsson laptop hoax email –which I have been receiving dozens of times since high school already - for like 2 to 3 time at least over just the past 6 month!!)

Community Calender

FCIH bloggers started a public calendar under the name: Community Events Calendar. It will be focused mainly on the Egyptian IT Community. A glimpse of the calendar is here below:

Also you can subscribe to calendar in many other ways, for eg the HTML version here:

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a4lgh95ric33n590179795q0k4%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Africa/Cairo

Or in iCal format that can be feed to Outlook or Apple iCal, etc :

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/a4lgh95ric33n590179795q0k4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Also, as XML feed:

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/a4lgh95ric33n590179795q0k4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic

The calendar will include offline IT community Events held around Egypt. Also, online events both from Egypt (hopefully there will be, someday :)) & around the world.

Please, feel free to contact us (FCIH bloggers) or comment on this post, notifying us of events that need to be added to the calendar. Also, any ideas to improve it are much appreciated :)

Cross-posted from FCIH-Blog