I’ve recently been going back and categorizing each and every one of the 1150 posts that I have written in the past 2 years, and while going through them, I discovered that my life has literally been recorded on the digital pages of this blog. Although it is freaky to a certain extent, the awesomeness beats the freakiness.

Like, why was I so much more interesting last March than this March?
Did I ever really think that this is cool?
Why did I stop being so random?
Oh, my god. I drew this? Shu 3eib.

The same also goes for dates and occassions, and for someone as horrible with dates as I, it’s awesome to have all of these things recorded for future reference. For example, these are real examples that I have been asked recently.

“When was Hisham’s graduation last year?” Oh, just Google it, I’m sure you’ll find something on my blog.
“When did we go to the Turkish bath thingy?” May 27th, 2005.
“Do you remember when Paul left?” Google knows everything.

Yet, the weirdest sensation when looking back at older posts comes with the realization that I have grown so much. I have become more serious a person and less of a happy-go-lucky one. Here’s a post I wrote back in early March 2005 titled “If Confession is the Road to Healing…“, amended to be more realistic with what my confessions would be today.

1. My only sources of world news are Aquacool, Mental Mayhem, and SubzeroBlue(although I keep myself up to date with news related to culture and technology).
Although I haven’t become a news junkie yet, I am definitely addicted to reading the news.

2. I’m a bad, bad, bad parker.
I’m a good parker.

3. I recently learned how to spell restaurant.
The “recently” isn’t too recent anymore, is it?

4. I don’t have an anti-virus software installed on my computer.
Ok, that one still holds true.

5. I recently learned the difference between a democrat and a republican(ahem, ahem)
Same as number three.

6. I’ve been submitting the same research to the same professor for the past 2 semesters.
Yeah, well, that went on, and once I thought I used it too much, I started using other research papers or the research papers my friends wrote earlier. We still do that. It works.

7. I have quite a hard time distinguishing left from right.
Ok, yeah, I think I’m getting worse with that. Like, much, much worse.

8. I’ve unsuccessfully tried to learn a dictionary(and I’ll probably try again eventually).
Last time I thumbed through the dictionary in an attempt to learn any words I didn’t know was a few months back- I used a regular pocket dictionary, and wow, I actually know most of the words. Hilarious.

9. I think FireFox is too yellow.
What? What? What? Firefox is the embodiment of perfection.

10. I never bothered to learn the multiplication table and never will. There’s also no way that I can add, subtract, or divide without using the marvelous calculator.
Ok, that’s also getting worse. My math-related braincells are dying constantly.

The Israeli/Lebanese Coffin Counter (+Boing Boing)

The Middle East Buddy List (+2:48 AM)

So Lebanon is being razed to the ground in front of our eyes, while the poor Palestinians – Allah y3eenhom – are suffering as they have always suffered from Israeli oppression and destruction. After over 3 years of the start of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, the situation there keeps getting worse and worse. The Syria-Iran issue is lingering threatningly in the air, and after the 2nd Battle of Mogadishu started in May 2006, the folks over in Somaliland are claiming that it has been the worst fighting in more than a decade of lawlessness. Sudan, meanwhile, is not only on bad terms with many of its neighbors and much of the international community, but also suffering from the long-term effects of a number of civil wars, the most recent being the Darfur Conflict.

Fade into this lovely, happy, cartoonish image [insert happy cartoon jingle]: the infamous group of loonies, Al-Qaeda, who want Spain “back”.

Al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s number-two leader called for jihad until Spain is liberated from the Spanish occupation.

“It is a Jihad for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails … from Spain to Iraq,” al-Zawahri said. “We will attack everywhere.”

Haha.

+ Beirut Update

“Fuel oil from the Jiyyeh power plant that was hit by Israel has been pouring into the sea, spreading along the Lebanese coast all the way up to the north, As-Safir reported today. Lebanon has asked Kuwait for help and an official with the Lebanese environment ministry told As-Safir that it could take “tens of years” to get rid of the pollution.
The ministry reportedly asked the Lebanese army and two private companies to survey the damage and find solutions. Environmental organizations and the UNDP have also been contacted.”

+ From Beirut to the Beltway

This awesome; web-2.0-ing classical logos.

Added a temporary white background behind the text because I can’t read what I write against gray for the life of me. I like the white better, but as I’m a CSS novice, the white corners and stuff do not not work as well in Internet Explorer (which is a terrible browser anyway) as they do in Firefox.
I’ll fix it eventually, probably even change the whole design, but for now, I would seriously recommend you download Firefox which is like, the best invention since sliced bread ;)