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	<description>Freshly Ground Shrimp</description>
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		<title>Improved Wikipedia Citations</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/improved-wikipedia-citations/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/improved-wikipedia-citations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdullah Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>

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I don&#8217;t know about you, but I often find myself checking Wikipedia citations and notes either to read more on a subject or to simply check the authority of a source. I do this while reading and not after I&#8217;m done reading the article. This process involves clicking on those tiny bracketed citation numbers which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Mo3jam</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/introducing-mo3jam/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/introducing-mo3jam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdullah Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arabic dialects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arabic dictionary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arabic slang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mo3jam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

What is Mo3jam?
Mo3jam ( معجم ) is a user-generated dictionary of colloquial Arabic. Mo3jam is Arabic for lexicon or dictionary.
What?
It&#8217;s basically a website, where users can come in and share what they know about the spoken terms and expressions in the various dialects of Arabic.
Now I know, there have been multiple attempts in the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spices</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/spices/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/spices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdullah Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiku]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me take you on an adventure:
Spices of the East:
My entrails are set in flames
Toilet tragedy
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		<title>Code Golf: Saving Time</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/code-golf-saving-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/code-golf-saving-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdullah Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[code golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[php]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saving time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A long while back Code Golf posted up the Saving Time challenge in which you were required to transform input representing a digital clock into an ASCII analog representation in as few key strokes as possible. Here were my solutions in both PHP and Python:
PHP: 234 characters


&#60;?fscanf(STDIN,&#039;%d:%d&#039;,$h,$m);$s=array_combine(str_split(&#039;0b1a29384756&#039;),array_fill(0,12,&#039;o&#039;));$s[$h=dechex($h&#62;11?$h-12:$h)]=&#039;h&#039;;$s[$m=dechex($m&#62;59?0:$m/5)]=$h==$m?&#039;x&#039;:&#039;m&#039;;vprintf(&#34;%9s
%5s%8s

 %s%14s

%s%16s

 %s%14s

%5s%8s
%9s&#34;,$s)

Not exactly the most beautiful code. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not About Shrimps</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/its-not-about-shrimps/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/its-not-about-shrimps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdullah Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blachan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;d love to own a lucrative web-front for import/export of shrimp and related marine life, this website is not even vaguely related to the crustacean as some would start to assume.
It&#8217;s just a logo, man. Stop emailing me about it.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Daily Show with Jehan Sadat</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/the-daily-show-with-jehan-sadat/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/the-daily-show-with-jehan-sadat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kareem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sadat]]></category>

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A couple of days ago Egypt&#8217;s former first lady appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
The full episode is available here.
Jehan Sadat was promoting her new book My Hope for Peace, and the interview wasn&#8217;t particularly hard-hitting. But what struck me was the simple clarity with which Jehan explained her late husband&#8217;s motive for pursuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divorce Rates</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/divorce-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/divorce-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kareem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The National has a front page story on divorce rates in the UAE. Money quote:
Figures released by the ministry in Sharjah last week indicated that the divorce rate in the emirate had gone up from 26 per cent in 2001 to 33.9 per cent in 2008. Fresh statistics presented to the FNC yesterday showed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Camels</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/save-the-camels/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/save-the-camels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kareem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteer in Dubai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The Volunteer in Dubai group on Facebook (which now commands an amazing 4800 members), is planning a desert clean-up campaign on Friday morning. Garbage left behind by campers in Dubai is often consumed by camels nearby, turning into stone in their guts and killing them.
The group&#8217;s founder Lola Lopez explains on the group&#8217;s Facebook page:
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side of Dubai</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/the-dark-side-of-dubai/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/the-dark-side-of-dubai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kareem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blachan.com/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC published a documentary and related story on labor exploitation in Dubai, planting reporter Ben Anderson amidst construction workers living in terrible conditions, as they work on luxury properties in the city.
&#8220;The latrines are so filthy we cannot use them, we are so disgusted. The roads are full of garbage and waterlogged. Living and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeds of Discord?</title>
		<link>http://blachan.com/blog/seeds-of-discord/</link>
		<comments>http://blachan.com/blog/seeds-of-discord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kareem</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That the new Israeli right-wing coalition government will most likely be obstructionist has long been a foregone conclusion, although the fact that they&#8217;ve come out swinging right from the outset has made the abrasiveness of madmen like Avigdor Lieberman all the more unnerving.
And just so as not to leave anyone not alienated, the freshly minted [...]]]></description>
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