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Moon Eclipse 17th of Aug, 2008

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under Photography

Moon Eclipse / half way, originally uploaded by mo_mughrabi.

Just few minutes before the eclipse starts I was preparing my camera and totally slipped my mind to find the stand. I figured the pictures will not be good with the stand, how about without. But, it turned out better than expected.

Here is a link to The Moon Eclipse on my flickr.

Aziz Maraka jazzing Arabic lyrics

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under music

 

Lately, I've been spending sometime finding my way through facebook and during that I might have stumbled on someone very talented. I couldn't really get a chance to download all his tracks but so far I heard two of his and I cannot seem to get enough. 

Demetri Martin - Straw & ice cubes

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under filmmaking

I just finished watching Demetri Martin in "Person". His material is really incredible and brilliant! I managed to cut this one minute of his show when he was describing Straws and Ice cubes.

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Tomb of the Dragon Emperor really sucked

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under filmmaking

Yesterday I watched The Mummy (Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) and it really sucked. The first two releases of The Mummy had a decent sense of humor & continuos series of event kept happening plus not seeing Rachel Weisz here made it a little odd. 

Replace toad with Oracle SQL Developer

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under it

If you are working with Oracle applications databases at work or even during your studies you will know something for sure, dealing with SQL*Plus is a nightmare and sooner you will realize its not a productive tool for developers nor administrators. So, most developers use TOAD which is incredibly smart, easy to use and double your productivity with exports option, history, table structure views and much more. Today, I tried googling for the oracle tools and I stumbled upon this new Oracle SQL Developer which was released sometime during this year. 

I've been using it all day in the morning and it is very interesting. first of all, its FREE and you can do exactly the things you can do with a TOAD only that with Oracle SQL Developer you are using Oracle product! I noticed though it retrieves data a but slower than TOAD but I assume it was something to do with me using a virtual machine at that moment. The beautiful part, it is a cross platform in the sense you can run it on your windows, mac or even linux desktop as long as you have java runtime environment. 

Eating live fishes in Shanghai

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under Uncategorized

I just had one incredibly long day, my office hours keep getting longer and longer without even me noticing. Any who, I got this email earlier this morning from a friend and I just had to upload the video. I couldn't resist, its just too Chinese-like! Would you eat?

Zain offering new pricing plans for eGO

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under Kuwait

Zain is offering a new pricing plan for eGo devices and for a limited time. Only for 35KD!

Zain celebrating Pakistan independence day

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under Kuwait

First of all, just want to wish Pakistani's readers and happy independence day. I personally thought its a very cool offer from Zain, you can send messages (sms) to Pakistan now for only 20 fils instead of 50 fils and only for the 14th of August, 2008.

Did I just enjoy Batman because of The Joker?

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under filmmaking

By far this is the best Batman movie I've seen, when Jack Nicholson did The Joker in 1989 reviewers wrote that no one can be a better fit for this role. Since I saw the Dark Knight last week and am thinking what could I blog about it? Unlike the new hollywood movies, this one is very unpredictable and very entertaining. All I can say is, you have got to see it!

AUX in the Accord 2008 - Honda

Posted by Mo J. Al-Mughrabi under Uncategorized

Today I was driving AlShahbandr to his place and he was talking about the AUX port in my car. then, I realized why i have not blogged about this before? well, from my experience with AUX its very practical but for this sake you will miss many advantages. It will make connecting to almost any music player as easy as plug and play but you definitely cannot browse the content from the steering wheel or stereo itself. Plus, am on a shuffle so my only way to find a track is to push next until its on..