Rida Al Barazi's Personal Blog » Observations http://rida.me/blog Rida's Zone in Cyberspace Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 PersonalDNA http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/19/personaldna/ http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/19/personaldna/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:39:58 +0000 Rida http://www.ridaalbarazi.com/?p=30 Few days ago I was doing some riffs, and while surfing here and there it got my attention that ATTAP (the same producers of riffs) had some cool attap ideas too, such as PersonalDNA, I immediately took the test specially that I normally like such psychological stuff, and believe that it help sometimes to make a better person..

The unique feature in PersonalDNA is that it doesn’t take your answers as True/False only, no Black or White, but it takes Gray as an answer, in many answers it was very rare that I was completely positive or negative to any question, most of the time I’m either in the middle but a little bit moved to some side or the other one.. something like: dark gray, or light gray.. so I’m very satisfied about my answers and there was no answer that I was confused about. And as a result, here is my PersonalDNA:


Now if you didn’t take this test yet, or still thinking about taking it, you should try it right away.. and try it with your friends too, because it will be very helpful.. I have recommended it to my friends and they generously accepted to show me their results, it helped me a lot in understanding them better and know how to deal with them to maintain a better relationship.

]]> http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/19/personaldna/feed/ Procrastinating Goodies II http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/14/procrastinating-goodies-ii/ http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/14/procrastinating-goodies-ii/#comments Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:23:31 +0000 Rida http://www.ridaalbarazi.com/?p=31 Google Calendar

What to say.. Google amuses us with a new simple easy to use product to serve our everyday needs, integrated with gmail, and collaborated design of Douglas Bowman, have a tour to know what make it special than other calendars out there.

CSS Reboot

CSS Reboot is a community event that occur every six months, November and May, where designers from all around the globe reboot their websites and designs, to have something like a festival for web standards designs. I already rebooted this website on last Nov reboot, and it will be rebooted this May too.. stay tuned :)

Codase

Codase is another search engine, but as you can tell from the name, it’s dedicated and made for code, it understands programming languages, and treats code as code.

Act As Searchable

Another Rails plugin based on Hyper Estraier (an open source fulltext search engine) to offer a search module for ActiveRecord to your rails application, visit the project site for more details.

]]> http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/14/procrastinating-goodies-ii/feed/ Procrastinating Goodies I http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/02/procrastinating-goodies-i/ http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/02/procrastinating-goodies-i/#comments Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:12:51 +0000 Rida http://www.ridaalbarazi.com/?p=24 Google April’s Fool

Well played joke from Google with official blog post, tour and FAQ. Google Romance ;)

Math to Art - Art From Programmers

Lovely interview on PingMag with Takashi Maekawa talking about Processing and what great work it can do, what differentiate it from Flash, with some wonderful examples like Modulobe and Sonasphere.

Rails 1.1

Rails biggest upgrade, and what David tells us about it on both 37Signals (Rails 1.1: Loaded with 37s extractions) and RoR official website (Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things!).

]]> http://rida.me/blog/2006/04/02/procrastinating-goodies-i/feed/ Google Measure Map http://rida.me/blog/2006/02/15/google-measure-map/ http://rida.me/blog/2006/02/15/google-measure-map/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:41:14 +0000 Rida http://www.ridaalbarazi.com/?p=15 So Google is making a complete web statistics solution.. Urchin earlier, and now it’s Measure Map, from Adaptive Path to Google, where Jeffrey Veen enjoy wearing Google Bike Jersey for his first day as Google team member.

]]> http://rida.me/blog/2006/02/15/google-measure-map/feed/ Good Procrastinating http://rida.me/blog/2006/01/07/good-procrastinating/ http://rida.me/blog/2006/01/07/good-procrastinating/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:43:00 +0000 Rida http://www.ridaalbarazi.com/?p=13 I really liked Paul Graham’s article regarding Good and Bad Procrastinating, it cheered me up, I thought it was always bad to procrastinate, but let me tell you, if I didn’t procrastinate GOOD last year, I would never be where I am now.

Read the article and cheer up, you must be/become a better procrastinater…

]]> http://rida.me/blog/2006/01/07/good-procrastinating/feed/ twofifty.org http://rida.me/blog/2005/12/12/twofiftyorg/ http://rida.me/blog/2005/12/12/twofiftyorg/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:09:10 +0000 Rida http://www.ridaalbarazi.com/?p=10 A year from now I was following the IMDB Top 250 movies voted by IMDB users, trying to watch all what’s in this list, today I added this to my 43Things and thanks for the posts their.. I found about twofifty.org a simple webapp, simply dedicated for this list.. :) it’s cool to find such a very small basic application, to organize something a lot of people are trying to do..

I immediately signed up, and fortunately I got my invitation quickly, and here we go.. I got a my 250 list which I hope I can watch it all soon :)

]]> http://rida.me/blog/2005/12/12/twofiftyorg/feed/ Google Analytics http://rida.me/blog/2005/11/22/google-analytics/ http://rida.me/blog/2005/11/22/google-analytics/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:52:56 +0000 Rida http://www.ridaalbarazi.com/2005/11/22/google-analytics/ I never expected that I will stop using awstats one day, I even thought that if this will happen it will be with Mint, but oh it’s Google Analytics at the end, after acquiring Urchin one of the most expensive web analytics application, which was dedicated for enterprises in a way, is now available to all for free …Thanks to Google.

Google Analytics

The Funny thing is that with less than a week, Google didn’t expect all these huge number of registrations, with all their preparation to it, and now they are clearly saying:
“Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your name and email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience.”

If this is the first time you hear about it, then you better follow Google Official Blog to be the first to know and don’t miss your turn again.

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