Welcome, Layan Arrabi

Leaving the hospital
Originally uploaded by arrabi.

Alhamdullilah, God has blessed us with the sweetest baby Layan on Friday 23rd at 11am. Mother & Baby aare healthy and back at home. A new life has begun, and it definitely has a new refreshing flavor.

What should her nickname be? Layan is just soo.. easy. Suggestions so far: Lolo, Loli, Layano, Layyon, Laylon!?, lonlon..
can't stop :-)

We took this pic on Sunday as we were leaving the hospital. My dear 7amati is with us, which is really great at this point.

Muhammad, Afnan, and Layan Arrabi :-)

nice article on Jordan's independence day

Out of the several articles I read on the topic of Jordan's independence day, I like the article titled " في ذكرى الاستقلال...تحديات ماثلة أمام الدولة الأردنية" by Batir Wardam the best.

Nice job Batir.

Magical HDR images

Our eyes see a huge amount of light-shades, but digital cameras can save only few of them at a time. The problem is exaggerated when an image has dim spots and strong-light ones. If the camera focuses on the dim spots, the strong-light ones are too white. And if the camera focueses on the strong-light spots, the dim ones are too dark.

A solution by HDR Soft company is to take several pictures with different exposure time/intensity, and then use their plug-in to merge them. Thus, the image will have 3x (or more) the number of light shades in a picture.

The resulting images are MAGICAL. Check this guy's album of China.

Pic of Wadi Rum

Wadi Rum, Jordan
Originally uploaded by malachei.

mesmerizing!
A picture of Wadi Rum. One must always wait for sunset/sunrise in any natural place. Pictures like this do not come with perpendicular rays.

Nancy overtook Amr Diab, according to Google

According to Google Trends (thanks to Humeid for his article)

Nancy Ajram's popularity over took Amr Diab's in the first quarter of 2004
And Haifa Wehbe is no match!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ajram%2C+wehbe%2C+diab&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

Ah, technology, how useful art thee...... ;-)