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		<title>Java Timezone Information 2011g &#8230; The community release is here :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 11:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt has recently stopped working with DST time, so we need to update our timezone information with the latest updates, as a normal user for java, I used to download the TZUpdater tool which was always available for free from SUN &#8230; But not anymore, as Oracle started to show its ugly face, if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=286&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-deception and Self-Betrayal &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smshaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[25 jan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s well known the events Egypt has been living lately … During this time I wrote a small memo that I decided to keep from myself and never publish it, however, I’ll post small portions of it, and how I decided to transform, and what I decided to do next … ………. Where I’ve been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=285&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read The Freakin&#8217; Manual &#8211; RTFM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that I increasingly encounter people that just make me wanna shout (RTFM) … I know, RTFM originally stands for “Read The F**** Manual”, but I’d rather use Freakin’ instead, just out of decency … Situations like these below made me shout (RTFM) : I was giving a session to some guys at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=282&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Dump&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, a friend of mine and I had some wonderful time… Not skiing, not playing a game, not chasing beautiful women, but rather chasing awesome thoughts, reverse engineering, and cracking into some software, and here’re some ideas… In fact the idea of having a page containing such content (as this one) and calling it “Brain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=281&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Kindle, Working around regional restrictions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/amazon-kindle-working-around-regional-restrictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few weeks back, a friend of mine was visiting the US for some business of his own, and I couldn&#8217;t help to ask him to bring back an Amazon Kindle for me&#8230; I choose the cheapest model, the one with the WIFI only, with 6&#34; screen, it seemed satisfactory to my needs, I won&#8217;t need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=277&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Book worm&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/a-book-worm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[book worm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous blog entry, I&#8217;ve mentioned some guy on the internet who used to read 80~90 books per year&#8230; Well, I met one of those book worms in the flesh&#8230; We needed to upgrade one of the most critical network systems at work to the newest release, and the vendor sent out one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=274&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy becomes more precious everyday, and so does Open Source&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/privacy-becomes-more-precious-everyday-and-so-does-open-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smshaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[microsoft privacy invasion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was visiting my friends in ITWorx, and they were totally bugged by the new gateway that the IS has installed to monitor and control users’ access to the internet… That new gateway is called “Thread Management Gateway” from Microsoft, and guess what? it SUCKS, BIG TIME… Their 1st impression that it made things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=272&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Steps ahead&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/more-steps-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smshaker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accelerometer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, as most of my friends know; I’ve moved from ITWorx to TEData, but this didn’t cause my personal plans and agenda to shift or drift, however, it imposed some delays on it a bit… Anyway, two months ago, a friend of mine has put my hands on one of a kind board, that holds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=257&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/missing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smshaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[missing dubai]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[missing my friends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Man, I miss lots of things; I miss Dubai, the quality of life, the manners of driving,enjoying driving at 140~160 Km/hr without worrying some @!&#38;^%@^&#38;!#!@# will just jump in front of you, the sun set on the gulf shore, the BBQ in the open air, the vast green parks, how people (well most of them) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smshaker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2477558&amp;post=225&amp;subd=smshaker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam, Information Security, How they correlate ?</title>
		<link>http://smshaker.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/islam-information-security-how-they-correlate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smshaker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[availability]]></category>
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