Prison Break DVDs

After I had borrowed season two on DVD from my friend, I needed to get season one somewhere, so I could see the whole series at once.

I went off to my favorite place to buy DVDs, a shop in Istiklal Mall, which sells high quality DVDs for 1JD each. I recommend this place for any film lover.

I asked him for season one, and he had the DVDs. They were 6 discs but he had an offer so I only payed 5JDs. If you went to any old shop, you would've payed 9JDs.

Although, looking at the actual profit the shop makes, which is huge - since one blank DVD costs barely anything, you could sell it at any price.

I checked one disc to see its quality and it was great. It turns out the episodes are recorded from some Fox TV thing. And it was HD, lucky america.

When I went back home to see which disc was which, to write on them which disc each one was, I found out each case, which carries two discs, contained exactly the same episodes.

So now I need to go back to Istiklal Mall, but my mum is not willing to go back again. I will have to wait, in despair, until tomorrow.

Does anyone know when the shops in the mall open (which time)?

So, now readers, tell me what movies/series you're watching/going to watch now? I want to know.

Mountain Dew

I once made this MSN background, because I was bored, and I was also drinking the stuff, and I, most importantly, I have a strong passion for this drink.

What do you think?

Making Films

We were bored, one day, at our friend Yazans house.

As us being the high-tech people we are, we decided to entertain ourselves by making a short movie.

It was a comedy, since comedies are fun and easy to make.

We had the horror film Saw in our minds, so we decided to make a short parody of it.

Yazan agreed to be the torturer, and I was the camera man (a mobile phone, but good quality), Khalid was the tortured.

The end product was a few short films, I brought them home and spent 4 hours putting all the pieces together, then adding suitable beginnings and endings.

I then, after taking the agreement of the actors, chose to put it up on Youtube, for the world to see.

I put along with it another film, which I act in, a short parody of Bad Boys, which was originally for our english project.

Watch the films and enjoy!

Of Ubuntu And Xbox's

I have an update on both my last two posts (1, 2), and surprisingly, they happened both today.

First off, Ubuntu.



I left off to Friday prayer while leaving the download running, which was at 72%. I came back to find it was canceled.

Who canceled it? No guessing.

Now I must resort to buying a CD of it here in Amman. Does anyone know a shop that sells a copy of Ubuntu?

And now, to 360s.



I made a deal with my parents this morning. One that was written on paper and signed by me, my dad and my mum.

I promised to do my chores around the house daily, help my brothers and sister, go to summer Quran club, and turn off the computer during end of semester exams, until the 5th of July.

At that day, I will in turn go and buy an XBox 360 from Swiefieh. My reward for waiting all those months.

I just hope I can keep up to those terms. Hopefully, I will.

Changing To Ubuntu

Well, now that the download is 54% through, I think I'd might as well announce to you that I've taken the choice to move to Ubuntu, a flavor of Linux.

Well, its Ubuntu 8.04 to be precise.

It all first started when I had a old laptop, it had been in the family for almost five years and nobody really wanted it.

So I decided to give Ubuntu a try. I don't know where or when I first found about it, but I liked it as soon as I tried it.

For all you non-geeks out there, Ubuntu is a version of Linux, an operating system like Windows, but its 110% free.

And it contains programs that are free as well, and substitute programs that come with Windows, like OpenOffice, GIMP, Firefox and Thunderbird.

The laptop gradually died, may god bless its soul, on the hands of my youngest brother, who took the liberty of taking out all its keys (laptop keys cannot be fitted back in, doh!), which need 70 JDs to be replaced.

So now, a few years on, I finally decided to try out Ubuntu on this desktop computer. I found the old CD I had burned a long time ago, but it was too scratched and too old to work.

Finally, I decided to download the new release, Ubuntu 8.04. And, its 56% done till now. 2% since the beginning of post.

I've been looking for a way to dual boot between XP and Linux, since I still need Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3, Adobe Audition, and others. I found this handy article, which I plan to follow.

I was also wondering how to install Perl onto Ubuntu, so I can carry on with my Project Euler challenges. I still haven't found a solution to that, anyone of you readers know the solution?

I can't think of anymore things. I'll post again when I'm on Ubuntu.

Wish me luck.

Xbox 360 Partying

Holding a controller, pressing a few buttons and watch the screen change is much more fun than it seems.

Especially when you're playing on an Xbox 360.

The shear joy of pure high definition graphics, mixed with surround system sound and mind boggling tactics - that's what makes the 360 a work of art.

Of course, since I don't have a 360 yet, I went off to my friend to pay off some of the addiction.

To start off with, is the game Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

Not only does this game take SWAT teams to the highest level, but it also combines team tactics with leader commandment to get through the game.

Not only will you have to pick the right assault and sniper weapons to do the job right, but you'll have to work correctly on the field, be it taking cover to assigning teammates targets and even choosing the right door to charge in to, to complete the level.

Another less action packed, but adventure like game, is Lost: Via Domus.

Although I did not see much of this game, but I sure did like it from my first play. You take on the role of Elliot, a man with amnesia from the airplane crash, trying to regain his memories, and in turn, discover the secret of the island.

Along with his compass, and the message to the way home, Via Domus, you must take along riddles, puzzles, and maps to complete the levels of this game, based on the television series. A great game for the adventure fanatics.

So, now that I've shared my piece of gaming, care to share yours?