Is Microsoft Fun? (Aka View

A question I usually get, is working at Microsoft fun compared to other companies like Google? Or it's just a place for geeks :)?

Will answer this question through the next days, stay tight ;)

iPhone, it's not just a phone

Allah made me funny

Those guys are really funny :)

http://www.allahmademefunny.com/

Microsoft Surface!

I was looking to talk about this new innovation from Microsoft for a long time, but I was waiting for someone to post a video which I can include here in the blog, and finally it happened:

What do you think?

Isn't it really cool?

Now you can see the official surface web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

By the way, surface is based on Windows Vista

Microsoft OFone

By the way, this is a Spoof:

Spray Painting

Very very very cool!

Tagged: 5 things you don't know about me!

So I've been tagged by Hany to write this post, I don't think there's much to be written, but let's give it a try.

1. I am so moody, I don't ever like doing the same thing twice, and my dream is not to repeat any day in my life again.
2. I love being crazy, yeah it's real, to do whatever you want in any time without giving a damn to anyone.
3. I am very eastern although it looks like I am not at all.
4. I believe in Aliens :D
5. There are more than 5 things to know about.
6. I am very nervous, although many people think I am calm and many people didn't see me when I am really angry, but here is your advice, when I become really angry just run like hell, because at that time if you even break my leg I won't give a damn and I'll keep fighting you until you die or I die or someone kills us both!
7. When I was a kid I burnt a small paper, then when I found it blowing too much fire for me to handle, I threw it in a container filled with papers and magazines, and when I found it burning as hell and fire started to spread into other stuff like bed and carpet, I closed the room and went outside to watch TV as if it's not me who did anything!
8. When I was a kid I almost killed another kid (refer back to point number 6), he was making fun of me so I took a very huge rock and hit him on his head, he lost his conscious instantly and I left him bleeding in the middle of the street at 11:00 pm and ran home to my bed.
9. When I was a kid I almost got killed when I fall from the ground floor into the -1 floor over a marble stair and I broke my skull from my left ear to the right one (I almost got my brain out).
10. Since I was a kid (and until now) I like breaking things apart and building them again, building stuff from nothing, try to invent something new, and things like that.
11. I write stories and poetry
12. I love kids like hell, and for some reason they get used to me very fast too!
13. I love dealing with smart people so much.
14. I love candies so much too, and can't stop eating chocolates.
15. And I am not as Hany, I don't dream to have a convertible car, I just dream of having my own F-16, I love flying soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.
16. One day I attended an online lecture in math, I came in the middle of the lecture, so there was a white board out there filled with many theories and stuff, I got bored so fast, so I start drawing into the white board and removing stuff without noticing that the chatting window was like hell as everyone out there was saying: "What's the hell is happening? Who’s that crazy ass hole?" as I just wasted the whole lecture!
17. I am very very very very ambitious and I’ve plans for my life like for the next 20 years, and if I am to get married, she must be very ambitious too.
18. That's enough for today, let's continue later!
    

أمـنـيـة

* تم القبض في المملكة السعودية علي ثلاثة مخمورين الأول ألماني والثاني أمريكي والثالث عراقي، وحكم القاضي الشرعي بجلد كل منهم عشرون جلدة ..
- وأثناء تجهيزهم للجلد أقبل الجلاد عليهم مسرورا وقال لهم: لقد وضعت زوجتي اليوم مولودا جديدا وطلبت منى أن أمنح كل منكم أمنية بهذه المناسبة.

- قال الألماني وكان أول من تقرر البدء بجلده: أرجو أن تربط إلى ظهري وسادة قبل الجلد ..
فقام الجلاد بذلك، فتمزقت الوسادة في الجلدة العاشرة، فلما انتهى الجلاد أخذ الألماني يبكى بشدة وقد تمزق ظهره وسالت دمائه.

- قال الأمريكي وقد حان دوره: أما أنا فأمنيتي أن تربط وسادتين إلى ظهري ..
ففعل الجلاد ذلك، ولكن ما لبثت الوسادتان أن تمزقتا من الجلدة الخامسة عشر، وتلقى الأمريكي باقي الجلدات وهو يصرخ ويبكى من الألم.

- قال الجلاد للعراقي وقد كان آخرهم: أنت أخ عربي وجار شقيق لذا سأمنحك أمنيتين ،،،
قال العراقي: شكرا لك يا سيدي على كرم أخلاقك، وتقديرا لإحسانك فإن أمنيت الأولى هي أن تجلدني مئة جلدة بدلا من عشرين ..
فقال الجلاد متعجبا: ما أشجعك من رجل، لك ذلك، وما أمنيتك الثانية؟
فتبسم العراقي وقال: أما الثانية فأن تربط الأمريكي إلى ظهري !!!

Source:

http://www.lovely0smile.com/?View=Archive&Msg_Id=1280

Very cool Microsoft Search

Try yourself:

http://www.msdewey.com/

قصــة مرعبــة

جرت أحداث هذه القصة في بلدة صغيرة قرب مدينة موسكو الروسية

هذا رجل كان واقفا على جانب الطريق ينتظر أن توصله سيارة عابرة

فهو يريد الذهاب للبلدة المجاورة في ليلة شديدة الظلام في وسط العاصفة

الليل مر ببطء ولم تمر أي سيارة عابرةمرت ساعات وساعات وهو واقف

كانت العاصفة شديدة والليل حالكلم يكن يستطيع أن يرى مكان قدميه

أخيرا وبعد طول انتظارمرت سيارة تسير ببطء كأنها شبح

شبابيكها سوداءخرجت من خلف الظلام وبلا أضواء

مرت ببطء متجهة إليه حتى توقفت أمامه
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ركب الرجل داخل السيارة وأغلق الباب

فجأة شاهد ما لم يتوقعه أبدا

لا يوجد سائق لهذه السيارة

السيارة بدأت تتحرك ببطء مرة أخرى

بدأ الرعب يدب في قلب الرجل

وبدأت السيارة تسرع قليلا

اقتربت السيارة من منعطف خطير جدا

الرجل بدا يدعو ربه من اجل البقاء على قيد الحياة

لا محالة السيارة سوف تخرج عن الطريق وسوف يواجه الموت

فجاه قبل المنعطف بقليل دخلت يد من النافذة وأمسكت الدركسيون

وقادت السيارة عبر المنعطف بأمان

أصبح الرجل فرحا مع بقاء الخوف والرهبة في داخل قلبه

الرجل أصبح يرى اليد تدخل من النافذة عدة مرات كلما وصلوا إلى احد المنعطفات

وأخيراقرر الرجل الهروب من السيارة

ففتح باب السيارة وقفز منها ولاذ بالفرار
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ذهب إلى اقرب بلدة وكان مبتلا وفزع

اذهب إلى احد البارات وبدأ يخبر قصته المخيفة والمرعبة للجميع

بعدما تأكدوا من هيئته انه غير مخمور أو ناقص العقل

وكان الجميع ينصت للقصة

في أثناء ذلك وبعد حوالي نصف ساعة

دخل رجلان إلى نفس البار

وعندما شاهدا الشخص المرعوب

قال احدهما للآخر

مش هوّ ده الأهبل اللي ركب العربية واحنا بنزقّها

Microsoft Puzzle Hunt: Atlantis?

Microsoft Puzzle Hunt?!
Never heard about this before?!
Keep tuned and soon I'll post about it and about the currect hunt: Atlantis

New Year Day in Seattle

We went to Seattle (Me, Hany, Ali and his Wife, and Ramy) to Seattle on December 31 at 11:30 PM to see the new year's event there, also it wasn't as cool as what's done in Time Square in Newyork, but it was fun, I'll leave you with some pictures and video, pictures may be some how blurry, but because I was using a slower shutter speed and I was not using a Tripod (all pictures and video are resized for the sake of bandwidth):

Space needle before the fun :)

Space needle during the fun

I tried to make a fun picture, this was supposed to contain a lot of hourses and people, but because I've used a shutter speed of 15 seconds, every moving object was blurred and removed (try to focus on the left, you'll see some ghosts ;)

And now to the videos, this one was before the fire works started:

Video: Near Space Needle before the fire works


And this one is a part from the firework (it's much bigger than this):


Video: New Year's Fun in Seattle


And this one was after the event, it was really fun :) :


Video: Fun after Seattle's Fire Work

Movie?

Few days ago I got a chance of being a part of something like Jackass movie, and for reasons everybody know (you watched jackass? NO? Watch it and you will be from those who know the reasons), I didn't go, so I thought about something else, you know it?

Think for a while and when you got the answer read the rest of the post :)

Simply I though about something, what if I do my own movie?
What it would take?

1- Good Camera (I got one).

2- Crew (many friends are here).

3- Story (I could write a complete story in less than 1 hour).

4- Cars, clothes, etc (available).

So I decided to do it, I've already made the story, and the only thing remaining is to find the crew who won't refuse to do the movie, it may be in both language, English and Arabic.

Stay tuned :)

Perception vs. Reality

There's a nice picture I was seeing every day in my floor in my building whenever I am going to my office, only last week I though about its meaning, when someone is thinking about a software, and he's designing it, his perception about the size of the software, number of expected bugs, customers' cases, etc, would be something like this:

But when you actually go and begin working in the product, suddenly you found that the reality is something like this:

So usually make sure that you're working in a Chihuahua and not a Boxer.

علم المنطق

في واحد راح يستقبل ابن عمه في المطار المهم وهم راجعين من المطار بيسأله: انت بقا لك عشر سنين في أمريكا.. كنت بتدرس ايه؟رد عليه ابن عمه : كنت بدرس علم المنطق قاله : ايه هو علم المنطق؟ رد عليه: صعب اللي درسته فى عشر سنوات اشرحهولك فى ساعه بس انا هاديكمثال على المنطق قاله : اوكي سأله ابو المنطق : انتوا عندكم كلبفي البيت, صح؟ رد عليه: ايوةعندنا قاله: ادام عندكم كلب اكيد انكم عاملين له بيت فى الحوش
رد عليه: صح عاملين له بيت في الحوش قاله : مادام انه عندكم حوش اكيد انكم عايشين في فيلا رد عليه: صح إحنا عايشين في فيلا قاله: مدام انكم عايشين في فلا اكيد ان ابوك غني رد عليه: صح ابويا غني قاله: مدام انه ابوك غني اكيد ان امك تقعد في البيت يعنى مش محتاجهانها تشتغل رقاصة عشان تجيب فلوس رد عليه: صحيح امي قاعدة في البيت قاله : هذا هو المنطق , انك تبني شيء علي شيء. من وجود الكلب في بيتكم استنتجنا ان امك مش رقاصة ردعليه : ياااااااااااا هو ده المنطق؟ المهم … صاحبنا راح عند صحابه باليل وحب يتفزلك عليهم وسألهم ياشباب تعرفون ايه هو المنطق ؟ رد واحد لا والله ما نعرفش قال : انا اعلمكم سأل صاحبه: انتوا عندكم كلب في البيت ؟ رد عليه صاحبه : لا ما عندناش قاله : تبقى امك رقاصة

For Egyptians (Especially MSN and ICQ users)

Deh kanet post katabtaha abl keda fel blog el tany, mesh 3aref 7ases eni 3ayez aktebha hena tany.

El mohem, heya betetkawen min so2al wa7ed min goz2en, eli ye3raf yegaweb 3aleh abl mayshof el 7al, yeb2a tamam:

1- Leh samo el nafora nafora, ya3ni leh masamohash safora, bafora, eshme3na nafora?!
2- El 7ashesh eli beyetshereb, leh samoh 7ashesh?!
Leh mesh wara2 3enab, gawafa, moz, eshme3na 7ashesh?!!

Fakar shewaya fel 7al, law ma3reftesh el egaba, shof el full post ;)


Now ba2a negy lel egaba, bey2olak zaman 2wy 2wy ayam el denasorat keda, we ayam lama kan el ensan lesa geded fel kar, kan feh wa7ed esmo 3am 7ashesh, el ragel dah kan sha3'al ba7'a7', aslo kan ragel lazloz keda we bo2o keber 2wy, fa kano bey2agaroh yemla bo2o maya we yes2y el genina 2w ye7'sel el denasorat, keda ya3ni.

El mohem el ragel dah kan beyelbes fostan 3ageb 2wy, kan mesameh el nafora 3ala esm gedo el akbar, maho el ragel esmo 7ashesh nafora.

El mohem el ragel dah lama kan 7ad yes2al 3ayez ba7'a7', kano ye2ololo ro7 le 7ashesh el nafora, ba3d fatra keda e7'tasaro el esm we samoh el nafora bas, we deh egabet el goz2 el 2wal

Tab we asl kelmet 7ashesh?!

Beyo7ka en fe yom min el ayam, 3am 7ashesh kan 3amal yebo7' kal 3ada 7awalen magles edaret marage7 moled el naby 3alashan yetary el 23da 3alehom, we homa sa3etha kano beyetna2sho fe moshkela gamda gedan, ela waheya enohom min sa3et lama fata7o 7adeket el denasorat beta3ethom, kano 7aten range fe rashom en kol esbo3 momken el denasorat takol 12 zebon, laken eli 7asal en el denasorat kanet betakol fel motawaset 40 zebon, fa egtama3o 3alashan ye7elo el moshkela deh.

El mohem nerga3 le 3am 7ashesh, yomha 7'adeto el galala 2wy, fa mala bo2o gamed, 2am bo2o nasha3, ba3d lama ba7' el maya kolaha, 7ab yenashefo 3alashan 7'alas kan 2arab yebosh, 2am 3amal eih?!

nat 3al ard gab 7eta min shagar 3'areb keda we kalha ba3d lama nada3'ha, el mohem ba3d shewaya howa kalo min hena we rabena maywareko 3ali 7asal, 23ad yemla bo2o maya we yebo7' 3al nas we 3amal yed7ak we yed7ak, we yegry fel 7eta zay el 3abet keda we kol shewaya yebo7' 3al nas le7ad lama 7aset el karsa.

wa7ed min beto3 magles edaret marage7 moled el naby kan raken el T-Rex beta3o 3ala ganb, wel T-Rex kan 2a3ed mostagem 2wy fel shams, el moseba en 3am 7ashesh lama bas 3aleh we min kotr mahowa kan mastol, eftakaro komodeno, 2am ba7' 3aleh maya, fa el denasor etdaye2, 2am kal 3am 7ashesh.

El mohem, el nas 7alelo eli fadel min 3am 7ashesh we ektashafo en el nabat el 3ageb dah howa eli 3amal keda, We ta7'ledan le zekra 3am 7ashesh, samo el nabat dah 7ashesh we heya deh keset el 7ashesh eli el 7ashashen beyeshraboh till now we deh egabet el so2al el tany.

Tab3an now fadel goz2 mohem gedan, we howa el deros el mostafada min el kesa deh:

1- Lama tekon 3ayez tenashef bo2ak, eb3ed 3an el 7ashesh.
2- Heya 7elwa gedan enak tebo7' maya 3al nas, bas eb3ed 3an el denasorat eli betetshames.
3- 7esak 3enak tebo7' 2y maya 3ala 2y komodeno ba3d keda a7san yetla3 denasor
4- 7ot fe rasak en law el denasor kalam, momken yesamo el 7ashesh 3ala esmak, we deh el meza el wa7eda fe 2y wa7ed el denasor yaklo

Sky Diving Part 2

Hello all,

As I promised you before, here you're the second episode in my first sky diving which will contain the whole story :)

As I told you before I've chosen to jump the AFF jump, through these jump and without going into much details, the whole process is like that:

1. After we reach the jumping altitude (13,500 feet), I go to the door, and one instructor will be on my left and the other on my right.
2. I stand on the door and my face towards the plane front side, then:
   A- Look to my right instructor and say: Check, then he tells me OK.
   B- Look to my left instructor and say Check, then he tells me OK.
   C- Take a look outside the plane to make sure everything is OK.
   D- Go down.
   E- Go up.
   F- Then jump (and jump as Iam standing in order to maintain the correct position during my diving).
3. immediately after jumping, I read my current altitude and say it to my left instructor then my right one.
4. I begin simulating the process of opening my parachute three times.
5. During the 3 times of simulation, I peek a quick read of my current altitude.
6. One I reach the altitude of 6000 feet, I keep reading till I reach 5,500 feet and then say bye bye and open my parachute.
7. Once the parachute is deployed, I do several checks to make sure that it's going well, and if any of these checks fails, I try to make some stuff to correct it, and if fails again, I open the reserve parachute, and do the same steps, and once I get sure that everything is OK, I free my guidance ropes.
8. Using my guidance ropes, I guide my parachute to the landing spot.

And here you're what I've done from those :D :

1. I made this.
2. I didn't made any of these steps, simply because when I went to stand at the door, I found that if I did this I will fall, and I've tried my best to tell my instructor that let's jump without making all these, but in vain (you'll see this in video) because the noise was so loud that she couldn't hear me, so I tried my best to stand on the door but once I put my feet there, and I felt like falling, I made a jump without even telling them :D (but cool, it seems that they were prepared for this action ), also I have jumped using my head, and as you'll see in the video, I was falling and my face heading to the sky, which is not the correct direction, so as you'll see, I used my legs and moved them so quickly along with my hands to rotate myself to the correct direction till I succeeded :)
3. I read it, but because we were falling so fast I couldn't talk, I felt like can't produce any sound.
4. I did 2 only and the third one was in-complete.
5. Done.
6. Done.
7. Done.
8. Done.

And now, leave you to the video, enjoy your time ;)

Sky Diving, feel the gravity

Hello all,

Today I did a very crazy process :D, one of my friends here, was looking to make a sky diving, and knowing the fact that Iam dying to make it too, I joined him in this :)

When we knew the exact place we'll do it in, we were having two options, either to do it in the Tandem way or do it as Accelerated Free Fall way, everyone from those has its pros and cons, so let's give you a quick preview for both:

Tandem Pros:

1. Very small preparation and time till jump (about 10 min).
2. Don't worry about anything, you just look around and don't do anything.
3. Cheaper.

Tandem Cons:

1. Knowing the fact the it's easier, then actually you learn nothing.
2. Not really free fall, as someone will be sticking into your back, and for this extra weight, you'll have some thing like small parachute to decrease your acceleration to about 0.1-0.2 G.

Accelerated Free Fall Pros:

1. Real free fall with G acceleration.
2. Learn how to do stuff by yourself and how everything is working.

Accelerated Free Fall Cons:

1. You must care about everything, and actually you'll do and know a lot of stuff which is not easy at all.
2. Accelerating down with g is great, but put in your mind that you'll have no chance to breath well, your face will be like water and you'll feel with hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee pressure on your face and stomach.
3. More Expensive than Tandem.

So putting all these in mind, we decided to do it in the accelerated Free Fall way, so I'll leave the talk about this part to the next episode and I'll leave you to the pictures, enjoy :)

Next time I'll tell you about the weird stuff I did up there and how everything is working and also the big surprise, a video for the whole process ;), but for now, just enjoy the photos with small resolution for internet :)

http://www.mmeshref.com/album/Sky%20Diving/index.html

Very very cool video

See this video till its end, it's amazing :)

Ma3ateh Organization Ltd!

Hii all,

Today I was thinking about making any weird stuff, and I got this idea :D :

http://ma3ateh.blogspot.com/