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Re: Qatar opens museum of Islamic art

westernartwork — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:35:34 -0000

the exterior of the museum is already a winner! I wonder what they'll be putting inside. More oriental stuff I hope... :D

Re: Mapping Mexico’s drug traffickers

francisdisqus2 — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:50:41 -0000

Nice stuff, how accurate is this? I will try to google earth this one and hopefully see the druglords! lol

Re: Mapping Mexico’s drug traffickers

mohamed — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:56:11 -0000

That's pretty cool. Nice work

Re: Mapping Mexico’s drug traffickers

omarc — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:25:33 -0000

Gracias senor. UMapper does appear to have an API though - http://umapper.com/developers/ - based on which they've built a Wordpress plugin. I haven't tried that out yet though.

They also seemed keen on feedback, hearing what we might be interested in getting from them.

Re: Mapping Mexico’s drug traffickers

Morad — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:33:55 -0000

Great job there. Only if they offer API.

Re: Remembering the 90s: Before IM

Raceford — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:11:45 -0000

OMG! IWT... 12 yrs past is fuzzy but I still remember those days!

Re: Bhutto and Bin Laden in the rumor mill

Felix — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:49:10 -0000

But then why did the BBC censor it? if you look up the BBC version the Bin Laden bit is gone, aswell as the different post 911 videos of Bin Laden you can clearly see that its not the same person. You are for lack of a better word a piss poor journalist or you have been payed off for saying this.

Re: AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Rallying for Gaza

salieri — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:55:33 -0000

Wow. Rallies in Doha are really rather dramatically different from political rallies in the US.

Re: Qatar opens museum of Islamic art

omarc — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:28:03 -0000

For the slideshow? No, Soundslides.com - its the ultimate in audio slideshow technology.

Re: Qatar opens museum of Islamic art

mohamed — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:46:15 -0000

that's pretty cool - is that your own flash?

Re: Capturing the ‘contrasts’ of Dubai

Ben — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:54:18 -0000

Dubai is moving at a fast speed. There isn't any type of architecture that could be found there. Hotels are built left and right to fulfill the demand from the number of tourists visiting every year. Its nice to see a different architecture but a mix of everything will certainly turn into another Las Vegas.

Re: US Election: DC reacts to Obama victory

omarc — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:33:43 -0000

Yeah - there was so much audio pollution, and I wasn't overly discriminating with what I recorded. Alas that I missed it though.

Re: US Election: DC reacts to Obama victory

Sal — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:33:46 -0000

I was hoping you might have a bit of the 'Na Na Na' action at the White House.

Re: Google flashes some Chrome

omarc — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:38:06 -0000

Ian: Yeah, I had to FTP the image I used onto my server. I guess its a tweak Wordpress will have to make to get the media interface to show up in Chrome.

Media Boy: if that's all you want, I think you're going to like it.

Re: Google flashes some Chrome

media boy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:34:39 -0000

i'm willing to try it out just to see if it works more efficiently than FireFox... if it's faster than Firefox, has tabs and isn't IE, then it should be perfect

Re: Google flashes some Chrome

Ian — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:31:20 -0000

I think im going to be un-installing firefox soon, google chrome is the one for me! Death to firefox! I also made a blog post about google chrome, I noticed that you the buttons for adding media were missing, did you notice this?

Re: AJE’s new digital backside

omarc — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:40:52 -0000

It's true! While that specific example doesn't work because it spills onto two lines, most of the old URLs now automatically route to the new addresses, thanks to the IT team

Re: AJE’s new digital backside

Wiz — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:40:23 -0000

The old URLs seem to have been fixed now :).

Try:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/17B9CA05...
E0EE9E44985F.htm

Re: Al Jazeera moves towards mobile media

wesam — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:08:49 -0000

Re: Organics sell out to the man

kinch — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:51:14 -0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/fashion/15gre...

the increasingly extended product cycle (thank you globalization) hides much of the costs of a product. consuming less seems to be a key component of any green movement, but it ain't always easy to tell what ripples your activity has caused. if you can't accurately determine what lifestyle changes are actually effective, how do you decide which lifestyle changes to make? but i guess the basic ones -- turn out the light, recycle, eat less meat -- you can't go wrong with those.

and this is just funny. and backs up the point in the post article about lifestyle/habit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq9ilgw1plc

Re: AJE’s new digital backside

mohamed — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:33:40 -0000

Well done.

Another site that one of my mates developed also went live. Check out http://www.mg.co.za - it's the oldest news website in Africa.

It was 1 month and 2 developers...

Re: AJE’s new digital backside

Tanya — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:01:02 -0000

It's very easy to set up server-side forwarding from old URL's to new. It makes me sad every time I see a big redesign that ignores this integral part of the process. However, your terming the arbitrary dumping of users to the homepage as being "Jaz-rolled" is so hilarious that it makes this one worth my momentary feelings of pity. Too funny!

Re: AJE’s new digital backside

safdar — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:48:55 -0000

been keeping an eye on the website the last 3 days... certainly a lotttt faster now!!

Love the share this feature with facebook, Delicious and blah...

Look forward to when the Firefox optimisations are also in place - now with Firefox 3.0 with its great improvements i would def put some emphasis there.

Good work!

Re: Capturing the ‘contrasts’ of Dubai

Pierre Tristam — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:52:46 -0000

Omar... I love your work. (Belated) Thanks as well for re-granting permission to use the Qatar shot at my About site. You have a fascinating background and wit to match. I'd like to contact you more directly to discuss a couple of things but I can't find your email. Could you write me at ptristam@att.net when you get a chance? Thanks... Pierre Tristam

Re: Petraeus fights Iraq war in cyberspace

acids — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:53:32 -0000

does this mean the highways on the internet will become more few as we lose more freedoms?