Laith Zraikat

Trust me, I've been doing this for a while and did at least 700 KCal each time, and twice did 1000+

1. Register at a gym (If you are too lazy to do that, then don’t read on)
2. Get two half-hour podcasts about your favorite subject –mine, web development of course. This will keep your mind off the time and help you focus on something useful other than the boring repetitive 80s gym music.
   
3. It is preferred that you use an audio player with high volume so you can actually hear over the gym music –An iPod is ideal.
4. Use the cross-trainer (you know the one where you move your arms and legs –The treadmill will wear you off too quickly and you'll only achieve 350 KCal. The bike... you'll end up with a monkey butt by the time you're done.
5. Set the machine for a 70 minute workout –ten extra minutes will give you motivation to try and push yourself more- with a reasonable difficulty level so you won't be exhausted in the first 10 minutes.
6. Press "Play" and start working.
7. Concentrate on the podcast and try to actually think about what is being said.
8. Drink a lot of water while you're working out. If you don’t, your blood volume will go down due to heavy sweating and you'll start to feel nauseated.
9. Maintain an RPM of 65-80.
   

End result: You have worked out your body and mind for one full hour. Afterwards you can drink the best can of pepsi you've ever had in your life, and you'll get to enjoy it guilt free :)

Note: It is extremely important that you do not look at the timer until the first 20 minutes at least. If you do, you'll be so tired and you'll feel not enough time has passed .Whereas if you look at the timer after 20-25 mins, it will motivate you.

Of course the amount your burn will depend on your weight.

Warning: If you have any type of medical condition, do not attempt this. Even if you don’t have any medical conditions, you may develop some by hitting the floor after getting off the machine – you may experience some imbalance so it is advised you do not stop abruptly.

p.s. This is by no means to be taken as medical advice. I am only a dentist.

Using Css makes your life easier when you want to make changes to your design and helps you think in an Object Oriented manner when designing.A friend of mine asked me to explain how to create a roll-over effect without having to use any JavaScript, so I wrote this for him an thought it's worth sharing.

This tip only works in FF. For IE you'll have to do just a little bit of JavaScript.

To use CSS only in FireFox:

CSS:

.Icon
{
background: url(http://laithz.jeeran.com/blogimages/bul3.gif);
}

div:hover.Icon
{
background: url(http://laithz.jeeran.com/blogimages/bul2.gif);
}

.Icon, div:hover.Icon
{
height: 102px;
width: 71px;
background: no-repeat;
cursor: pointer;
}

HTML:

<divclass="Icon"></div>

For IE, we have to use JavaScript in addition to CSS:

CSS:

.Icon
{
background: url(http://laithz.jeeran.com/blogimages/bul3.gif);
}

.IconOn
{
background: url(http://laithz.jeeran.com/blogimages/bul2.gif);
}

.IconOn, .Icon
{
height: 102px;
width: 71px;
background: no-repeat;
cursor: pointer;
}

JavaScript:

function SwitchStyleClass(Obj, NewClass)
{
Obj.className = NewClass;
}

HTML:

<divclass="Icon"onmouseover="SwitchStyleClass(this, 'IconOn');"onmouseout="SwitchStyleClass(this, 'Icon');"></div>

Enjoy!

These were taken without a tripod and blended manually using photoshop.

Green fields in Al-Yarmouk: (3 shots)

enlarge: 2000*760, 3836*1458

Green fields in Al-Yarmouk: (3 shots)

enlarge: 2000*738, 4056*1496

Al-Yarmouk Battlefield: (5 shots)

enlarge: 3000*519, 6480*1050

"It's a great business model. Let's turn the country into a giant hotel and market it as such..." These were my thoughts as I read about HRW's call for Jordan to accommodate the 100+ refugees stranded on the Iraqi border.
 
"We'll give Aqaba 7 stars, Amman 5 stars, Irbid and Jerash 4 stars, Mafraq, Maan, Karak and Tafileh 3 stars, and Rweshed and Al-Jafr 2 stars. This way, we can accomodate refugees of all income levels, and get the UN to pay for those who can't afford it." No pun intended to cities that got less than 4 stars :)

Instead of commending Jordan on its amazing track record and receiving refugees of many conflicts, HRW have the arrogance to criticize us as if we have no human rights of our own.
 
Those refugees have a right to settle down, but what better place than their own country? Or is Jordan supposed to be a sport and take the burden off of Israel and the US? It is in the best interest of those countries that HRW step in, stand up for those people, point the finger at Jordan, and blind the world from their true cause.
 
If HRW were really concerned about human rights, those refugees wouldnt be in Iraq in the first place, but we don't see any pressure exerted on the Israel to take back the millions scattered around the world.

Their hypocrisy leads me to think of them as hired mouths that go off whenever it serves the interest of their masters. The US government stopped paying for hotel accommodations for its own Katrina refugees, but we don’t hear HRW loud-mouthing them.
 
I am glad someone finally has the guts to stand up to this bull****. Jordan has done more that its fair share of being a giant "hotel" for people made homeless because of western world policies.

Flickr is the leading photo publishing and sharing service on the web. almost every serious blogger has a Flickr account which makes it essential for them to be able to integrate easily between their image collection and their blog.

This integration is now possible with Jeeran Blogs through our Web Service API. It will also enable any third party application/web site to utilize the power of Jeeran Blogs.

Now, everyone with a Jeeran Blog can setup their Flickr account to enable blogging of their photos directly from Flickr.

To know more about how to set it up, please read: Posting from Flickr to Jeeran

It is also worth mentioning that the Jeeran Blogs API is based on the universal MetaweblogAPI standard, so any application that supports this standard can be setup to use the API.

The Jeeran Blogs XML-RPC API end point is:
http://api.jeeran.com/blogs/rpc.rem

p.s. this was posted through Flickr :)

The beautiful thing about blogs is that without their CSS, they all look almost the same.

To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.