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August 20, 2008

One year and counting…

Filed under: Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 6:29 pm

The 22nd of August 2007 is the date that is written on my contract as the first working day for me at Akhtaboot. The 21st of August 2007 was the actual first working day for me at Akhtaboot.

Well, how did I get there? You can go back with time to this old post to figure out. But why I’m there? For me I’m in Akhtaboot because I would never find a better opportunity to be a member of such a lovely team. From the first interview, the low of attraction had a big role to let me in. First I met Mohamad and Fouad, and I was impressed as I never though that I will ever be able one day to find people in Jordan with such mentality. Few days later I met Yousef who was impressing enough as well to get my attention when he was talking about Akhtaboot and their vision.

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August 17, 2008

Attention please: Jawaker is online

Filed under: Arts, Life, Technology — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 12:39 pm

A couple of months ago we have put the plan to work on our next project after Akhtaboot. Today, the 17th of August 2008, and before 5 days to complete my first year as a member of the development team of Akhtaboot formerly and now Boundless, finally we are proud to announce that we launched Jawaker.com in its beta version.

Jawaker.com, the first online trix game (as a start) is now online. Do you know what? it’s purely an online game with no downloads and no flash. It has been done using the “latest” web technologies; Jawaker is written with ruby on merb framework with the amazing AJAX touches. And what a wonderful, clear, shiny and attractive design of the website that has been, of course, taking into consideration the standards of web 2.0

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August 12, 2008

My Phone Prank on Energy FM

Filed under: Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 9:36 pm

Finally today I got the recorded phone prank that has been recorded 2 weeks ago and played on Energy FM a couple of days ago. They edited it a lot but actually I like it after editing and thank God they didn’t include some horrible parts.

You can listen to it here.

August 7, 2008

MAGLAB on Energy 97.7FM

Filed under: Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 2:23 pm

A week ago Jumana (our administrative assistant at Akhtaboot) transferred a phone call for me. This call was from a guy who speaks English and I wasn’t able to hear his voice clearly. But I figured out that he needs a sponsorship from Akhtaboot. I’m not going to tell you the whole story but at the end of the I heard music and the voice of a girl on the background. That was a MAGLAB.

This morning I started to get messages about it, they played it on Energy FM and I’m still waiting to get it from them to listen to it :)

August 1, 2008

Our Minister of Education needs someone to educate him

Filed under: Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 4:22 pm

This morning at 11:00AM I switched to Jordan TV to watch the press conference of the Minister of Education – Tayseer Al-Naimi to announce the Tawjihi results as my sister is Tawjihi (by the way, congrats Nour).

It was the first time that I watch him in a speech since he became the minister and that was very surprising. I used to watch Dr. Khaled Touqan in speeches and seminars or whatever and he used to be very impressive and attractive to the people to listen to him.

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