Once again my website went down… This time it was because my web host thought I am abusing their service through videos.plus961.com (now inactive)… so they suspended my account!
Anyway, here I am, online again. و لن يستطيعوا إسكات الصوت الحرّ، لول
Due to a problem with my host, the website was down for more than 8 hours yesterday! Here’s the e-mail they sent me:
Good day Rami,
We have received the report from our technical team and they have started doing the work after proposing a solution.
The issue found on your server is RAID array degradation (triggered by the traffic spikes earlier and high data read/write request). Our team had replaced the server’s HDD with new hard disk drive and already started to rebuild the array which may take up to 3 hours to complete.
We ask for your patience and understanding.
This advisory has been issued for transparency and to keep you abreast with the events.
Thank you very much.
The Management
W heik! Shu 3andkon akhbar?
I got a new idea today, and you can see it right at the end of each post. The new “Share this article on Facebook” link will let you share any of my posts on your Facebook profile for your friends to check it out.
You get nice content on your profile and I get extra visitors! It’s a Win/Win situation, no? 
Following the creation of a fan page for +961, I have created a group for Lebanese Bloggers on Facebook. The aim of that group is to gather Lebanese Bloggers to get to know each other.
I’m definitely interested in getting to know more Lebanese blogs out there, I already have few in my RSS reader but I’m sure there are still a lot more.
So far the group has 4 member, Antoine Khater from Adidap.com, Mireille Raad from LifeGeeked.com, Farah Soubra from NoisyThinking.com, and… myself!
Care to join? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44733691275
I have just created a facebook fan page for this blog, it is meant to interact more with readers who are on facebook.
If you guys have an account, feel free to become a fan by visiting the page located on the following link: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/961/30258888983
You will have the opportunity to share your thoughts on the discussion board or upload interesting photos from Lebanon and I will be publishing them here on the blog.
I know I have a relatively small reader base, but I aim at expanding it through facebook… I hope.
I have just noticed today that my blog here has a PageRank 4! I wasn’t following the PageRank update here on Plus961 because I noticed that the Lebanese blog sphere doesn’t give much importance to it.
If you’re not familiar with what PageRank is about, well it basically determines the importance level (on a scale of 1 to 10) of a certain page on the internet. The more links you get for your website, the higher the PageRank you get.
For more about PageRank, click here.
It’s been more that 10 days now since I last updated my blog, and that’s mainly due to all the projects I am working on completing at both work and university (no I’m not an undergraduate, I’m pursuing an MBA), in addition to taking a break and going for a 3 days beach vacation in Latakia (Syria), there’s some nice resort there called “Côte d’Azur de Cham” (funny name?), not that great but it is nice.
By the way, I found out that taking a break while you’re in the middle of numerous projects is a BAD idea, talk about time management!!
Anyway, here’s a panoramic photo that I took from my room. (Click to enlarge)
Now that I’m back to Beirut (almost a week ago), I’m still struggling with my endless duties… wish me luck for the next few days!
P.S: If you were trying to reach my blog today then you probably have received an error connecting to the database. That was actually caused by an outage at one of my hosting company servers. So sorry for that, but it’s out of my control.
As you might probably know, photography is one of my hobbies and I have posted few of the photos I took in a couple of posts a while ago.
Last week, ynoT from Shi Feshil said he will be holding a weekly post featuring a photo from Lebanon and he called his readers to send him their photos, so I did.
And guess what, I was happy to see my photo in this week’s post! The photo I submitted was taken nearly one year ago in Zouk old souk.
I’m actually thinking of making an online album here on +961 and upload all my photos to it, as soon as I get some time…
In case you’re interested, I rock a Nikon D40!
Shame on me for not posting for almost 1 month now… When I registered this domain a while ago, I though I will updating it on a regular basis. Unfortunately I was wrong! (And I hate being wrong)
So what has been keeping me busy?
Despite not posting, I was still noticing some people checking on my RSS feed from time to time! Whoever you are, thanks for showing your interest! Anyway stay tuned, it won’t take another month till you see another post here! 
Arghhh my blog is not yet popular and I have already came across a website with a similar name.
Today I received a spam email that landed right into my junk folder (thanks to Gmail), promoting a new Lebanese gifts website called 961gifts.com i.e. Lebanon gifts. Ok they’re not really copying me actually but they did copy the name, no?
I did a whois query to see when was it registered, and I got the following result:
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: 961GIFTS.COM
Created on: 19-Feb-08
Expires on: 19-Feb-10
Last Updated on: 23-Feb-08
Ok mine was registered on December 2007!
By the way, if you’re looking for an online gifts store to get your mother a gift on Mother’s day, I recommend Zoohoor.com. I work in a sister company to them and the guys are pretty nice and friendly there.
Oh and talking about popularity, I see people are constantly checking on my blog through the RSS feed. Whoever you are I’m glad you’re interested in my content! I’ll try to post more often.
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