<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/2.0.4" -->
<rss version="2.0" 
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Osama's Blog</title>
	<link>http://osama.alassiry.com</link>
	<description>Who? me? blog? why not!</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4</generator>
	<language>en</language>
			<item>
		<title>Upgrading Ubuntu to 8.10</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/11/01/upgrading-ubuntu-to-810/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/11/01/upgrading-ubuntu-to-810/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ramblings</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/11/01/upgrading-ubuntu-to-810/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Upgrading Ubuntu is extremely simple, click, click &#8230;


]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Upgrading Ubuntu is extremely simple, click, click &#8230;</p>
<p><img alt="Upgrading to 8.10" id="image118" src="http://osama.alassiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ubuntu-upgrade-810.png" />
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/11/01/upgrading-ubuntu-to-810/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Youtube implements XKCD recommendation!</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/09/youtube-implements-xkcd-recommendation/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/09/youtube-implements-xkcd-recommendation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Google</category>
	<category>Internet</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/09/youtube-implements-xkcd-recommendation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just read about it on xkcd&#8217;s blag&#8230;

]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just read about it on <a title="yes, it's a blag, not a blog" href="http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/10/08/youtube-audio-preview/">xkcd&#8217;s blag</a>&#8230;
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/09/youtube-implements-xkcd-recommendation/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>imified</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/05/imified/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/05/imified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ramblings</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/05/imified/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been playing with imified, it&#8217;s an IM bot platform that allows integration with many online apps, I&#8217;m using it right now to post to this blog.

]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been playing with imified, it&#8217;s an IM bot platform that allows integration with many online apps, I&#8217;m using it right now to post to this blog.
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/10/05/imified/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Do something now!</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/05/09/do-something-now/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/05/09/do-something-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>Computing</category>
	<category>Cool Videos</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/05/09/do-something-now/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Clay Shirky talks about all the wasted time watching tv and doing &#8220;nothing&#8221; &#8230; youtube shows it as a multipart video, so I link to the site where I saw it on, blip.tv, I hate their embedded player, it seems to mess up my wordpress  theme (cannot seem to keep the closing embed and object [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clay Shirky talks about all the wasted time watching tv and doing <strong>&#8220;nothing&#8221;</strong> &#8230; youtube shows it as a multipart video, so I link to the site where I saw it on, <a href="http://blip.tv/file/855937/">blip.tv</a>, I hate their embedded player, it seems to mess up my wordpress  theme (cannot seem to keep the closing embed and object html tags)..
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/05/09/do-something-now/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Google App Engine</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/13/google-app-engine/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/13/google-app-engine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Google</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>Programming</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/13/google-app-engine/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google just launched a preview release of App Engine, I was lucky to be able to try it.
As Google describe it, &#8220;Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications, Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google just launched a preview release of <a href="http://appengine.google.com/">App Engine</a>, I was lucky to be able to try it.</p>
<p>As Google describe it, &#8220;<em>Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications, Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to millions of users without infrastructure headaches..</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been learning <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> the last few months, so I followed the tutorial and created an application. It&#8217;s currently limited to 3 applications, and I used-up one (you currently cannot delete applications).
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/13/google-app-engine/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>LibraryThing</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/02/librarything/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/02/librarything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ramblings</category>
	<category>Internet</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>Language/Culture</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/02/librarything/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just added my books to librarything, I already had a CSV file created with a barcode scanner, so I Just imported it&#8230;
 

]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just added my books to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/alassiry">librarything,</a> I already had a CSV file created with a barcode scanner, so I Just imported it&#8230;</p>
<p><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> </script>
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/04/02/librarything/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>I also hate files!</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/01/04/i-also-hate-files/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/01/04/i-also-hate-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Ramblings</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
	<category>Programming</category>
	<category>Linux</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/01/04/i-also-hate-files/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Cannell says &#8220;I Hate Files&#8220;, and I agree with almost every point.
Files are a major nuisance, and until another practical solution is universally accepted, we will have to live with them.
Online-only solutions cannot work until connectivity is not an issue, until it becomes an extremely cheap commodity.
Until then, maybe a hybrid solution that uses [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Larry Cannell says &#8220;<a href="http://www.collaborationloop.com/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2302&#038;Itemid=39">I Hate Files</a>&#8220;, and I agree with almost every point.</p>
<p>Files are a major nuisance, and until another practical solution is universally accepted, we will have to live with them.</p>
<p>Online-only solutions cannot work until connectivity is not an issue, until it becomes an extremely cheap commodity.</p>
<p>Until then, maybe a hybrid solution that uses client-side software with network-based distributed storage that does not rely on folder structures and filenames could be acceptable.
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2008/01/04/i-also-hate-files/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Climate Disasters of 2007 in Pictures</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/31/the-climate-disasters-of-2007-in-pictures/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/31/the-climate-disasters-of-2007-in-pictures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Internet</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/31/the-climate-disasters-of-2007-in-pictures/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t understand French, Google&#8217;s translation tools could be helpful.

&#8220;Le Monde 2&#8243; : Les catastrophes climatiques de 2007 en images
]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you don&#8217;t understand French, Google&#8217;s translation tools could be helpful.
</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/web/portfolio/0,12-0@2-3208,31-993807@51-993805,0.html">&#8220;Le Monde 2&#8243; : Les catastrophes climatiques de 2007 en images</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/31/the-climate-disasters-of-2007-in-pictures/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Translation in Google Talk</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/translation-in-google-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/translation-in-google-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Google</category>
	<category>Technology</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/translation-in-google-talk/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s newly added translation bots are amazing, I&#8217;ve been using them for a few days now, and they&#8217;re much faster, simpler, and easier to use than opening language tools in your browser.

Supported language pairs are: ar2en, bg2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, es2en, fi2en, fr2de, fr2en, hi2en, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google&#8217;s newly added translation bots are amazing, I&#8217;ve been using them for a few days now, and they&#8217;re much faster, simpler, and easier to use than opening language tools in your browser.
</p>
<p>Supported language pairs are: ar2en, bg2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, es2en, fi2en, fr2de, fr2en, hi2en, hr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, uk2en, ur2en, zh2en. Always append @bot.talk.google.com to get the bot&#8217;s address.
</p>
<p>Google&#8217;s statistical machine translation is getting better … it currently gives better translations than when I first tried it, still not perfect but usable.
</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/translation-in-google-talk/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Project Euler</title>
		<link>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/project-euler/</link>
		<comments>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/project-euler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>osama</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Internet</category>
	<category>Programming</category>
	<category>Science</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/project-euler/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m addicted to ProjectEuler.net … you solve math problems by any means possible, then you will have access to the problem&#8217;s forum thread where users share insight on the problems and some even post code (some are Assembly Language wizards that solve a complicated problem in just a few CPU instructions).
The site describes itself as:
Project [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m addicted to <a href="http://projecteuler.net/i">ProjectEuler.net</a> … you solve math problems by any means possible, then you will have access to the problem&#8217;s forum thread where users share insight on the problems and some even post code (some are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language">Assembly Language</a> wizards that solve a complicated problem in just a few CPU instructions).</p>
<p>The site describes itself as:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt">Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.</p>
<p>I use several tools to solve the problem</p>
<ul>
<li>Pen and Paper</li>
<li>My Brain</li>
<li>Research problem using <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/">Maple</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi/win32">Delphi</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a></li>
<li><a href="http://erlang.org/">Erlang</a></li>
<li>… more?</li>
</ul>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRSS>http://osama.alassiry.com/2007/12/29/project-euler/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
