Egypt
Wall Street Journal
Thanks very much to Rhio Barnhart for sending me this news item, which may be of interest to anyone living in Egypt or planning to visit:
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Apparently it's not a problem with my ISP (or so I'm told by a call centre operator who read from a script, almost incomprehensibly). I've changed broadband routers, and that's not the problem either. Next it's a matter of changing...
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http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ Speaking as a not infrequent visitor to Egypt, this initiative is very welcome:"As part of the USAID project While in Egypt Stay Connected and in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and the Egyptian Hotel...
- New York Times - Online Tutankhamun
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o190625m.htm "The New York Times has devoted a part of its internet site to the exhibition of Tut's objects. This exhibition was classified as a culture and arts page in the internet newspaper, in which some special...
Egypt
Egypt faces mass Internet outage
Wall Street Journal
Thanks very much to Rhio Barnhart for sending me this news item, which may be of interest to anyone living in Egypt or planning to visit:
Egypt's communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages.The ministry says three Internet cables running through the Mediterranean were cut Friday morning. Throughout the country the Internet is almost completely down or working sporadically.
The ministry says it will take "several days" for cables to be repaired and is trying to switch Egypt's Internet to an alternative route.
- Someone Is Standing Up To The Anonymous Web Trolls
The Guardian, UK (Paul Harris) There's not much Egyptology news around and I know that there are other bloggers reading this blog so I thought that the above story might be of interest to some of you. Malevolent anonymous comments are something that...
- Research Publications Online: Too Much Of A Good Thing?
Science Daily Thanks very much to Kat, who knows me soooooo well, for sending me this article from Science Daily. I'm not saying that I agree with it but I do like the fact that people are having the conversation: The Internet gives scientists and...
- Still Technically Challenged
Apparently it's not a problem with my ISP (or so I'm told by a call centre operator who read from a script, almost incomprehensibly). I've changed broadband routers, and that's not the problem either. Next it's a matter of changing...
- Tourism: Internet For Tourism Sector
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ Speaking as a not infrequent visitor to Egypt, this initiative is very welcome:"As part of the USAID project While in Egypt Stay Connected and in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and the Egyptian Hotel...
- New York Times - Online Tutankhamun
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o190625m.htm "The New York Times has devoted a part of its internet site to the exhibition of Tut's objects. This exhibition was classified as a culture and arts page in the internet newspaper, in which some special...