Egypt blocking Facebook?

Here's the first of hopefully no more posts about why Egypt actually is a third world country (unfortunately after the recent day's events, I have some more themes for blog posts about why sucks in Egypt).

I hope I'm wrong now, but it seems like the Egyptian government is blocking Facebook. Not a big deal, huh? Maybe not, but it's still narrowing an individuals options for communicating with the surrounding world. Seriously, it is a bigger issue, considering why the persumed block is taking place. According to LA Times:

The reason: In April, one group of young citizens mobilized 80,000 supporters to protest rising food prices. Facebook networking played a crucial role in broadening support and turnout for an April 6 textile workers' strike and protest.

OK, now it seems like an issue. Considering that I have found a few more evidences. All from the end of the summer of 2008, where people presumed it would happen. Now it seems like it has. For political reasons. Great... Hard to believe it but it seems like I'm living in a country where basic human rights are not respected. 

Right now I have been accessing the social network site via different proxy servers available, but it looks like the scripts essential for Facebook get blocked, so I can not even send any messages to people. 

Stay tuned for more reports on human rights in Egypt. Hell yeah... bye!

Update: Btw, I've been off for another reason - my hard drive suddenly decided to end our yearlong collaboration and leave my with a 5 days old Time Machine backup (thanks God for Time Machine!). But it took my a couple of days to find anything that I could replace my dead drive with in this part of world. More on this later! 

Bad bad bad bad bad bad news

This won't be a happy post. It won't be long neither. All I will say is that today I was working on a PR thing for the company when my Mac suddenly froze so I had to kill it by shutting it off. Now I see how some of you laugh: "haha there you go, even your fantastic Apple computer died!". Yeah, maybe it did, cause when I reboot all I see is a pretty neat icon with a blinking question mark, which represents "I can't find any disk to boot from". And that's true, my hard drive appears to be dead. Damn..great timing. Just for your information, the hard drive isn't original Apple, it's a 250Gb Toshiba drive I put in two years ago, and I knew it would die some day. Luckily I have Time Machine backup, which means it will be easy to get up and running again. Badly though, the last backup is 5 days old...

So tonight I'm going to Jerusalem to look for a) a new hard drive and b) some screw drivers cause I left my set back home in Sweden. Great. Sweet. Fantastic. I love this. Pray for me.

And I will pray. I'm a bit confused to whom I should pray though, considering I'm European, currently stay in Egypt and hope to find everything I need to fix this in Israel...

It's great, isn't it?

Hey look what I just found in my inbox:

For those of you who didn't get the Swedish part in this, it is an ad which entitles for discount buying a jacket this fall season. The funny part goes something like this: "There's always something positive going on. Like now: it only gets darker, colder and more rainy, which gives you this fantastic opportunity to buy a jacket [bla bla]. It's great, isn't it?". Haha yeah, that sure makes my friends way more happy about the weather conditions in Scandinavia. =D But you know what is great? This!

WTF Microsoft?

The Redmond software giant have been airing their two new ads recently, certainly as a response to the long-running series of "I'm a Mac - I'm a PC"-ads from the Get a Mac campaign. I watched both and seriously, what are they talking about? Is it really a good idea to bore people out... I was hoping for something better when they announced Jerry Seinfeld would be featured in the ads, but this is not good. Check it out for yourself.

Can somebody explain to me, please? I feel confused... 

End of the world? Yeah whatever...

This is so funny. Some people seem really concerned about tomorrow's upcoming experiment at CERN with the Large Hadron Collider (yepp, it's the same CERN and the same LHC as described in Dan Brown's Angels & Demons – let's hope they'll create antimatter, just like in the book ;)). So what's their concern? Well, they think that during the experiment, except the particles the scientiets are looking for, they might as well incidentally create a black hole! Yeah right... that's what I'm saying. But they're serious. Just take a look at this apocalyptic video:

The scientists at CERN have replied with – what they believe is – a "cool" message. One of the most pathetic music videos ever, gotta love it! :D

Well, we'll see if we're still alive by tomorrow. Oh gosh I'm so worried right now... shit ;). Bye!