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Friday, November 28, 2008

downloads

Does your network admin (Dans Guardian,etc) prevent your from downloading stuff?
Here is a simple hack:

Most applications (especialy Dans Guardian) only block the urls with having the word 'download' instead of blocking ftp traffic.

Two options exist:
1. install a proxy eg ultra surf (where do u get the permissions?)
2. the best option is to use a different language all together (how?)

The best solution is number 2.

Procedure
1. Look for the equivalent of the word download in ur prefered language (in french and the equivalent for download is telechargement).
2. use google to search for ur download without forgeting to replace the word download with ur new word.
3. voila...

NB: Always avoid anything, including buttons, that has the word download in it.

Gud luck

Thursday, November 27, 2008

My Views

Life is more like underground survey than surface survey.

In normal surface survey you see where you are aiming and the only possible deviations are left and right. This is like driving a car where you focus more on where u r going than where you are coming from.

However below the ground you cant see where u r going (just like in life)!!! You dont give up but rather be more creative and look behind to see where u r comming from and make the necessary corrections to your forward movement.

NB: This is a 3D space and deviations can be left, right, up or down with disastrous consequences !!!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Common

1. If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.

2. Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

3. You arent late until you show up.

4. If going to church makes you a Christian then standing in a garage makes you a car

5. Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway

6. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

7. If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two, and KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Not long ago

Art
I used to be a great artist (allow me to blow my own trumpet plz) in my formative years at prima. Am not sure if i can still draw/paint Kazi Bure.....

Soccer
I played soccer at many levels from interschool to national level (and almost internationaly).

1. Played for Coast Under 17 at several Coca Cola tournaments.
2. Played for Kenyatta and Khamisi High School "Kiungo Cha Kati - 6"

Novels
I could not wait to finish reading a novel (even if it meant transnighting). Now i can take almost four weekends just reading one !!
Favorites were James Hardley Chase stuff, Mario Puzzo stuff, Muhammed Said Abdulla,..

Kujirusha
Ile mbaya dem dayz ...

Hobbies

1. Watching Sci-Fi, 007, and other 'entertaining movies'
2. Watching n Listening to fun stuff: Big Bang Theory, etc
3. Joking and having fun
4. Travelling
5. Challenging my mental faculties (once in a while)


AM MORE CURIOUS ABOUT...
1. Engineering Masterpieces eg the longest under-sea Tunnel (across the English Channel linking Britain and France)
2. The Secrets of War (WW1 and WW2) - the technology, tactics, propaganda machine, etc
3. Space travel

[Surely humans are capable of big things]

Aspirations


Aspirations

1. Developing intelligent commercial grade software solutions using AI philosophies.
2. Perfecting R&D in optimization and simulation systems (OR) development.
3. Application Hosting - SaaS [Software as a Service]
4. Software Elegance








And.... a matching bank account balance

Professionally

CONTACTS
Nationality: Kenyan
Email: al-ibrahim@operamail.com, mabura.zeguru@gmail.com
Cell: 020 2058726,
Langs: French, Italian, English, Swa, etc

ACADEMIC
BSc IT - JKUAT - First Class Honors

PROFESSIONAL
Software Design - Java SE, Java EE, XML, Prolog, PHP, VB
Application Servers - Glassfish, Tomcat, Apache
DBMSs - Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Experience - WebSpace/Liferay, Alfresco CMS, Openbravo ERP, ICEFaces, NetBeans, Virtualization
Projects - CCK FSM, IMLU MIS, KIMY DMS, CCK Intranet, among others



Personal Weaknesses
> Perfectionist syndrome
> Attention to nitty gritties

Strengths
> Need i say?

The Big Bang Theory

1.
Penny: I'm a Sagittarius which probably tells you way more than you need to know...
Sheldon: Yes... it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun's apparent position relevant to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.
Penny: Participate in the what?


2.
Sheldon: Penny, i want u to clarify something since there will be a discussion when you leave. Do you solely reject our presense in ur apartment last night or do you also reject the imposition of a new organizational paradigm?
Penny: (dumbfounded and speachless leaves the room)

3.
Penny: am sure it must be some little misunderstanding
Sheldon: a little misunderstanding? galileo and the pope had a 'little' misunderstanding

4.
Missy: "That's because you don't have a measureable sense of humor, Shelly!"
Sheldon: "How would one exactly measure a sense of humor? A humor-mometer?"

5.
Penny: (after seeing Leonard and Sheldon without pants) I'm so sorry. I really thought if you guys went instead of me, he wouldn't be such an ass.
Leonard: No, it was a valid hypothesis.
Sheldon: That, "was a valid hypo"—what is happening to you?


6.
Sheldon: I can't believe he fired me.
Leonard: Well, you did call him a "glorified high school science teacher whose last successful experiment was lighting his own farts."
Sheldon: In my defense, I prefaced that with, "with all due respect."

7.
(at the high-IQ sperm bank, discussing committing genetic fraud)
Sheldon: What if she ends up with a toddler who doesn't know if he should use an integral or a differential to solve for the area under a curve?
Leonard: I'm sure she'll still love him.
Sheldon: I wouldn't.

8. (while cleaning Penny's sitting room)
Sheldon to Leornard: "explain to me an organizational system where a tray of flatware on a couch is valid."

9.
"I don't know your odds in the world as a whole, but as far as the population of this car goes, you're a veritable mac daddy."


10.
Leonard: So Penny is a little messy..
Sheldon: A little messy ? The person who setup complex numbers was a little messy. This is chaos!!


11.
Howard: Sheldon, if you were a robot, and I knew and you didn't, would you want me to tell you?
Sheldon: That depends. When I learn that I'm a robot, will I be able to handle it?
Howard: Maybe, although the history of science fiction is not on your side.
Sheldon: Uh, let me ask you this: when I learn that I'm a robot, will I be bound by Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?
Raj: You might be bound by them right now.
Howard: That's true, have you ever harmed a human being, or through inaction, allowed a human being to come to harm?
Sheldon: Of course not.
Raj: Have you ever harmed yourself or let yourself to be harmed except in cases where a human being would've been endangered?
Sheldon: Well, no.
Howard: I smell robot.
(Leonard walks in)
Leonard: What's going on around here?
Sheldon: The internet's been down for half an hour.
Raj: Also, Sheldon might be a robot.