Today I did two interesting things:
1. I helped physically install a Sun Fire X4600 Server with 8 dual core Opterons and 32GB of RAM.
I can’t describe the beauty of Sun hardware
2. I cooked for myself today and for the first time since I arrived in Australia I had a meal after 2:00pm
In [...]
I will be meeting my supervisor in about 3 hours. I will also see about my enrollment procedures. Hope it all goes well.
I had arranged to see a 2nd hand bike today and was planning to buy it unless there was something wrong with it. I got an email a while ago from the owner [...]
Here is a link that saved my life
Hall Foods in Canberra
Finding Halal food is one of the biggest concerns for Muslims and I was really lost before I stumbled on the ANU Muslim Association (ANUMA) website.
another good link is http://www.islam-australia.org/ (The Canberra Islamic Center).
Today I went to the closest mall (Canberra City Center) and visited Target. I expected Target to be Australia’s Wallmart. To my surprise it was in general more expensive that SuperBarn (I had never heard of it before).
Next to SuperBarn was a fruit and vegetable shop so I went to see how much fruit costs [...]
It has been so long since I last blogged. So many things have changed since then. The biggest change is that I changed continents I actually moved from Africa (Egypt) to Australia. I am at the Australian National University getting my Masters degree.
The trip itself was a big event. It took me about [...]