The name Alazraqui is quite unique, and is used by various people, including actor Carlos Alazraqui, who was born to Argentine parents. Other people in the USA, such as Ed Alazraqui and others in Argentina, such as Marcio Alazraqui.

Since 1894, several Arabic block printed charms were known by various researchers. Arabic Verses by two Arab poets, Abu Dulaf Al Khazraji أبو دلف الخزرجي, from the 10th century and Safeyudin al-Hilli صفي الدين الحلي from the 14th century suggest that that the term they used, tarsh, is for the print block technology.

The charms or amulets are similar to modern day hijabs حجاب written for superstitious gullible people by greedy quacks pretending to be holy men. 

A while ago, I came across Morten Wulff's Drupal-on-a-stick page. A few days ago, Matt Cheney posted instructions for getting Drupal on a keychain using Ubuntu. Of course, these require a PC to run.

Somehow, I stumbled on this old article on the Adsense module for Drupal. The reviewer was skeptical at first, and preferred adding the code directly in blocks. He was pleasantly surprised by the ease and configurability of the Adsense module. The Adsense module itself can be downloaded from Drupal.org.

What does a 2nd century Jewish jurisprudence text and a 13th Persian mystic poetry have in common? At first glance, not much, but there is more linguistic commonality than first meets the eye.

After trying the Garmin StreetPilot c330 Navigator GPS, I decided to try a unit that was a hybrid between the car directions GPS and the handheld outdoor/trail GPS.

While a car directions GPS gives turn by turn guidance to get you to your destination, a handheld would provide tracking, a compass, waypoints, ...etc.

Say what you want about Newfoundland. All the Newfie jokes aside, they are a wonderful bunch.

Here is a fisherman whose lobster traps were burned by a vandal. As news traveled from one bay to another cove, people chipped in traps, raw material and money to get him back on his feet.

No wonder he says he chokes up when talking about it.

Good for Newfoundland, Canada and restores some faith in humanity.

As we all know, PHP is tied to the Zend Engine, which is the heart of PHP. Zend has other products that interface with the Zend Engine, such as the Zend optimizer.

The Guardian has an article titled Fascist America in 10 easy steps. Although the article is specifically about America, it applies to any country with the same symptoms, whether historical or contemporary.The steps are:

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals

Doing physical exercise is normally not fun. It is more of a chore. Therefore, for someone who uses the computer and internet as the primary source of information/news, it would make a lot of sense to make time pass by easier if one was reading news, catching up on RSS feeds, ...etc. while on the treadmill.In order to do that, one can use an old laptop fitted to the treadmill.Well, after more than a year of thinking of this, Mayo Clinic has done exactly that. Will this be the office of the future?