feel good

feels good writing in my blog again

the waiting continues

i think it will be longer than i expect ,, waiting

speak n spell

i used to spend hours playing with this i can say it has affected my English, thank you mum n' dad..

i think i still have it somewhere in alex...

Bridge to Terabethia

r u kidding me this is supposed to be a disney movie that was just too hard to show to a child hell i felt bad

here

google's interactive campaign

campaign by google they are driving people to do stuff with their logo

here

ah... quotes

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.

Facebook

i like facebook a lot

it has managed to be the most popular community website ever, i think it has managed to do that by targeting the right communities and maintaining the right target of people who want to keep their friends together in one place and communicate with them and know their news in the easiest way possible

it has also attracted bloggers by importing notes IMers by using wall and messaging flickr users by the tagging photos youtubers by having video upload and tagging .... and so onnn...

anyway facebook rulz

waiting ....

waiting for the thing to come

not so much a Recovering Programmer

B4 u read



by the way i really did go to use a computer for the first time when i was 11 in sakhr my grandfather used to take me there daily

i wrote my first Basic Program on an Atari 2600 system that my parents originally bought for entertainment purposes

i used to write software that does 2D animation based on pixels and areas frame by frame in QBasic

i think i better get up and find that support group

...

source


Recovering Programmer
Hi, my name is Kris. And I am a programmer. "Hi Kris!"

My problem started when I was young. My father took me to an IBM open house and showed me a game called LEM. The computer told me my lunar lander's altitude and my vertical speed, and asked me how much thrust to apply for the next ten seconds. I told it, and then it told me my new position or told me I had crashed.

It was primitive. And it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I had to understand how it worked, wield the power that made it happen, and use that power to make the world a better place.

My parents bought me an Atari 800 computer for Christmas. I don't blame them for my problem--they didn't know I was susceptible. They didn't know that I often stayed up all night writing programs. They didn't know that I spent my days in school drawing bitmaps on graph paper and mentally converting them to numbers. And they didn't know that the high of using BASIC had worn off, and that I was hitting the harder stuff: 6502 assembly language and figForth.

My problem followed me into college. There, they told me that my code could be beautiful in addition to being functional. And I had a Macintosh, so the programs could look beautiful on the outside in addition to being beautiful on the inside. I wrote socially acceptable programs in Pascal and Lisp. But late at night I would hide alone in my room and hit the hard stuff: M68000 assembly language, and C.

Then, after college, someone actually offered to pay me to fall deeper into my addiction. They encouraged me to use C. But that wasn't enough: I spiked the mix with some C++, Perl, Bourne shell scripts, and even AWK. I did object-oriented programming. I started mixing languages. I wrote programs that wrote programs.

Then my tolerance for programming languages was built up so much that I had to go beyond them. I did every operating system I could get my hands on: OS/2, Unix, OpenVMS, VxWorks, Windows, Linux. I wrote ActiveX control containers in MFC (back before MFC had support for that sort of thing). I wrote RPC, DCOM, and CORBA programs, because I was no longer able to generate enough complexity on a single computer.

When the high from those activities wore off, I bought QuartusForth for my PDA, so that I could write and debug code while sitting in airports, or in traffic, or while waiting for a compile to finish on my desktop machine.

I was looking for the next high. Would it be Java? Or SOAP? Or web services? Or Python, Ruby, C#, ...

My employers didn't help me. Rather than putting me into a recovery program and making sure I got some help, they just enabled my problem by praising me and giving me promotions, raises, bonuses, and stock options.

They asked me to manage a software development team. So of course, I assigned all the important work to myself, and also decided to fix or finish everyone else's programs. My little four-month project turned into a two-year project. And the irony is that I really didn't do much programming: the majority of my time was spent figuring out which randomly selected sets of version upgrades, service packs, and DLLs are compatible with one another, or figuring out how to work around the workarounds for long-standing bugs in the third-party products we're using, or telling the client what computer and networking hardware to buy and how to configure it. (See RealStoryAboutDeveloperTurnedManager for the details.)

I've been working sixty hours a week for those two years, without any vacation. I've broken off contact with friends and family. There is no "high" from programming anymore--I'm now in a constant state of frustration and fatigue.

And it is not just the frustrations of programming that bother me. I am torturing myself to create systems that seemingly don't solve any problems nor improve anyone's life in any way.

I've finally accepted that my life has become unmanageable. I am powerless over computers and their hold on me.

I now realize that ProgrammingIsNotFun and SoftwareIsReallyPointless. I really shouldn't be trying so hard to turn my "complexity addiction" into a fulfilling career--it just isn't possible.

So, I am taking a break. I've quit my job. I will spend the next few months playing golf, playing guitar, reading non-geeky books, and learning to sail. I will use my computer only for what healthy people do with computers: e-mail and game-playing. When I decide to re-enter the workforce, I'll examine AlternativeJobsForProgrammers.

I'm so glad I've found this support group. (What? Wiki isn't a support group?)

levitation test

after almost 29 years of making it without having to take a driving test this movie turns up online with a short movie academy award nomination in last jan (didn't pass the thing...)

PIXAR..... ok.

common Sense

"Common Sense isn't so common"
Fady Mourad

month of movies

this month i watched these movies

• Pirates of the Caribbean at world's end
• Fantastic four rise of the silver surfer
  
• Next
• Shrek the Third
• Longest Yard
• Tranformers
  
• Evan Almighty
• Die Hard 4
  
• 45 يوم
• مرجان أحمد مرجان
• تيمور وشفيقة

and i want to watch

• Ratatouille
• Disturbia
• The Simpson's Movie
  

تيمور وشفيقة

بالرغم من رأى ناس كتير ثلاثة أرباعهم بنات بس الفيلم جامد صور علاقة بيت إتنين أهم حاجة في حياتهم علاقتهم دي ، صحيح ده غريب شوية في ظل العولمة وتحرر المرأة من الكعبلة اللى كانت عايشة فبها الفترة اللى من تلاتين أربعين سنة فاتوا بس ما علينا

أنا شايف للأسف إن لسة في شباب بيفكروا كد بس اللى يشفعلهم إن إتولدوا لقوا أهاليهم بيحبوا بالطريقة دي

أنا طبعا مضطر أكتب بالعربي علشان الأجانب ما يقولوش علينا متخلفين أكتر ما بيقولوا

بس المخرج والمؤلف نجحوا يقنعوني برأى الإتنين

مفيش موقع للفيلم !!! هاه

ما علينا شوف ده

WII shortage .....

i don't believe it nintendo is saying that the Wii will still not be available during the coming holiday season OH GOD it's only july how dumb can they be they are losing so much money.


mean while i am playing PC Games on vista

HALO2 and Tiberium Wars

money & marshmallows

well i know it's wrong and stuff but then again what if it's not, may be we're doing one big mistake :)

Menna Shalaby

too tired from work after travelling from cairo to hurghada stayking for a couple of days and spending a day at the beach.

anywaze got on the plane , put my walkman earphones on and listened to stupid @#$@# house music that metwally put on my walkman just cuz i didn't bother changing its content. was my worst musical experience ever.... including Abdu el 7amooly.

well on the arrivals room i was first to get to the belt to get my bag. there was this nice girl in her sweats burnt from hurghada sun as usual i thought hey she looks nice. my brain did not compute that she was a celebrity then.

but in a few moments little girls gathered around her and their parents started taking photos of her. i thought HEYYEe this Menna Shalaby she didn't stop smiling. what really surprised me that she was traveling alone

she never stopped moving making it very hard for my half sleeping brain geek to get a picture of her and when she saw my flash she moved behind crowds like she's shy or something. well..... any way i decided to respect her privacy and kept my hazy picture to put on my blog .

normally i wouldn't take a picture of a celebrity .... i don't know why i did this .

Objects

is it

"objects in the rear-view mirror are closer than they appear"

or

"object in the rear-view mirror appear closer than they are"


just before someone starts reacting to this i don't mean the real mirror K...

Mario

"Mario" is one of the most popular games on the world.

It also was also the most famous video game character along with the most famous female video game character "Lara Croft" on the Guinness book of records 2002 (i think that's the right year)

Mario that character created by nintendo has filled the times of millions of children of different ages i found this image on the web a couple of weeks ago.. :)

well let's just say it gave the game a new dimension which might make it unsuitable for children :D

BTW open source windows XP Games link here
which includes a couple of mario games

101 "blah"s

this is actually the post where i use my tag "Blah" the 101 time

it's the most used tag on my blog, the world is full of "Blah"s; i think it's the reason why blogs r very popular since i started blogging i have quite some of my friends have started blogging, filling the world with new "blah"s documenting personal "blah"s for the next generations


"blah" on my friends

relating to a sitcom charchter

well i think the reason where u like a specific sitcom or a movie is that you can relate to a character in it, i like "that 70s show" and friends cuz u can relate to their characters where my friends are the friends around me. both series have good memories with friends of mine watching it on our computers in cairo

friends i still have the complete collection and i watch that 70s show on mbc i have watched friends over 13 times and i am working on my 14th (geek i know) but hey i enjoy it more every time and i know that "that 70s show" only second season is being played on mbc but i still enjoy it even when i can lips whole episodes

last outing in cairo

last weekend after work it was about 11:30 pm we decided to go out on one of those outings that you can only go to in cairo, i wanted to go to a new place.


a friend proposed a place in "El Mohandeseen" which is a far place from where we're staying in cairo "Maadi". the trip alone took about 2 hours we enjoyed nilefm on the radio, house music was on but it was bareable, i like the station it's nice and they occasionally play rock music. i'll miss that i have to be on a laptop to listen to it outside cairo...

well weekend traffic is impossible in cairo 2 hours of sun packed trip to el mohandeseen was amazing and has reminded me how much i hated commuting in cairo today as i am blogging from hurghada it's really nice going from one place to the other in 10-15 mins tops. but usually where u need to go is only 5 mins away.





we went to a place called "El amoudy" which has the weirdest menu for arabian food we orderd stuff which we didn't really know how to pronounce it tasted "ok" but hey new experience