Germany — The Experience

Kind of ironic how everyone expects there to be an experience when you travel abroad.

Why should there be “an experience”? What’s so different out there that makes it all worth the while, I wonder.

In short: nothing. (I bet a bunch of you aren’t surprised right now at me saying this, but that’s not supposed to surprise you. Read on.)

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Setting Nameservers VS A-records

If you’ve used your personal domain on Tumblr you’d know how easy it is to set it up: you create an A-record at your domain provider, in my case GoDaddy, and tell Tumblr what your domain is. That’s it.

Aside from being dumbly easy, this configuration has always tempted me to be a tumblr user with my domain. Reason being, I could host my email MX record configuration at GoDaddy which means I ensure a better quality or uptime for my precious email records – which in plain English means I get my emails all the time.

Judging by the fact I rely a whole lot on those records to receive my emails, I kinda need to make sure that’s properly handled before settling for a specific setup.

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لعله خيراً

كان لأحد الملوك وزير حكيم وكان الملك يقربه منه ويصطحبه معه في كل مكان. وكان كلما أصاب الملك ما يكدره قال له الوزير “لعله خيراً” فيهدأ الملك. وفي إحدى المرات قطع إصبع الملك فقال الوزير “لعله خيراً” فغضب الملك غضباً شديداً وقال ما الخير في ذلك؟! وأمر بحبس الوزير …
فقال الوزير الحكيم “لعله خيراً”
ومكث الوزير فترة طويلة في السجن.
وفي يوم خرج الملك للصيد وابتعد عن الحراس ليتعقب فريسته، فمر على قوم يعبدون صنم فقبضوا عليه ليقدموه قرباناً للصنم ولكنهم تركوه بعد أن اكتشفوا أن قربانهم إصبعه مقطوع..
فانطلق الملك فرحاً بعد أن أنقذه الله من الذبح تحت قدم تمثال لا ينفع ولا يضر وأول ما أمر به فور وصوله القصر أن أمر الحراس أن يأتوا بوزيره من السجن واعتذر له عما صنعه معه وقال أنه أدرك الآن الخير في قطع إصبعه، وحمد الله تعالى على ذلك.
ولكنه سأله عندما أمرت بسجنك قلت “لعله خيراً” فما الخير في ذلك؟
فأجابه الوزير أنه لو لم يسجنه.. لَصاحَبَه فى الصيد فكان سيقدم قرباناً بدلاً من الملك… فكان في صنع الله كل الخير.

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A Mother. Every mother.

I got on the bus on the first stop. I was actually first on so I snatched my favourite spot. Judging by the fact I rarely find it vacant, it’s a lot of people’s favourite too. No seats in front of you so you can stretch as far as your legs would go and you also get a golden view of babywagons that get on the bus so you see all the pretty babies ماشاءالله.

As I hoped, a mother came on with a babywagon. Placed the baby in spot right in front of me, giving me a wonderful time to see that gorgeous smile he had, and walked to the driver to show her ticket.

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Mac OS X Lion: First Impression

So Lion has been released. Like the vast majority of every living soul on this planet (fine, excluding those that have been living under a rock for the past month) I couldn’t wait to get it on my MacBook. Headed right to my App Store and hit that Buy button!

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