Working in Advertising

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What do people usually do at real jobs?

They have to show up at 9 am, comb hair, wear a suit and be stable all the time. People also get mad at you if you screw something up, and have the tie all the time.

Now, Who wants a job like that? Not me, which is why I work in advertising! I get to pretend I have a “real job”, while partying non-stop and getting a pay cheque for it. If I screw something up, I just make up some excuse or persuade everyone that I didn’t fuck up…

I guess I’m one of those who demonstrate the “I don’t want to grow up” attitude in life?

Not really, but I prove that you can’t judge people by the looks.

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12 Comments » // July 16th, 2008 // Tagged & Archived in Advertising

Event: Arabic Calligraphy Workshop 2.0

A friend of mine is organizing a workshop in Amman, following the success of the first workshop, aiming to delve further into the possible re-integration of Arabic Calligraphy in our cultural identity. Hussein is pleased to announce yet another workshop for amateurs and anyone interested in Arabic calligraphy with the supervision of the Amman-based Syrian calligrapher Mr. Saleh Nasab.

The workshop will be consisting of a comprehensive course alongside 3 intensive courses exploring the main Arabic calligraphy styles; Diwani, Ta’lalik & Thuluth.

For more info check Khatt and the facebook event or call him directly on +962-79-7091084

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Comment now » // July 14th, 2008 // Tagged & Archived in Amman, Jordan, Art+Work, Event

Why Macs Rule: Safari’s Activity Window

Safari comes with an incredibly powerful tool called the “Activity” window, which can be used to download YouTube (or any other video site) videos, files from websites, MP3s from Last.fm or any other type of file present that can’t be directly downloaded, right to your desktop. There are many third party applications and services that allow users to download YouTube videos directly, but many people do not realize that this functionality is built right into Safari.

To illustrate this, I’m going to use YouTube videos as an example (.flv file format), but as stated previously this works with any online file.

Simply go to the YouTube video page where the video plays, click Window -> Activity and a window will appear similar to the one pictured below.

We’re shown a range of different files in this list, but we’re looking for the flv video file, which will most likely be the largest file of the list (highlighted below).

Select that file, hit copy and paste it into the Downloads window (Window -> Downloads), and the video will start downloading to your desktop.

Note: With YouTube videos, the downloaded file will be called “get_video” with no file extension, you’ll need to rename it to “something.flv”, in order to be able to play it.

+ Copied from Source.

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6 Comments » // July 14th, 2008 // Tagged & Archived in Apple+Mac, YouTube Videos