As I said in an earlier post, that if I make it to the US, I will definitely go to Austin to take photos with Stevie Ray Vaughan’s statue. I’ve been in the US for a month and here I am today in Austin, have taken a photo with the Statue :D.

Plus, I was able to meet one of my favorite teachers at the Lebanese American University Munjid Musallam who was supervising my Final Year Project Woopra. Now that Woopra has become a big hit, we were reminding each other of the old days :). Not to forget his wife who taught me the Oral Communication at LAU and his daughter who graduated too from LAU and is now continuing her studies at the University of Austin Texas. Thank you for this great day :).

I’m driving back tomorrow morning to Dallas to release an auto-update of the new version of Woopra.
Cheers!

1- Gary Moore

Gary Moore is an Irish blues guitarist and singer. As I’ve already mentioned in my older posts, Gary has always been my guitar idol since my very early guitar experience. His guitar tone is unique and warm. I never watched him live yet, but I will definitely do. I guess it’s still very early for him to quit the blues world. What really makes this guitarist amazing is his bendings! they’re just perfect. His music is very easy to assimilate due to the pattern he always follows but in the same time, you cannot expect the next note.

My favorite tunes for Gary Moore are “Still Got The Blues”, “Parisienne Walkways (watch my video)” and “Story of the Blues”.

2- Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong, a cornet, trumpet player and singer, is the king of Jazz Ballads. When I listen to Louis, I can think of a bottle of wine, a cheminee or an old cosy house in the mountain :). Louis’ topics are all based on optimistic romance unlike the blues musicians. His music is very joyful and goes straight to the heart. One funny thing about Louis is that he had always claimed to be born on the USA Independence day (July 4, 1900), but in fact, he was born on July 4, 1901 and he was recorded as an illegitimate black child. Louis died on July 6, 1971.

My favorite tunes for Louis Armstrong are “What a Wonderful World” and “A Kiss to Build a Dream on”.

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I had enough troubles this month while I was transferring this blog and some other websites to a new dedicated server. The fact is that I suck in server administration and it’s not at all my main focus. So what happened is that when I moved my websites including this blog to the new dedicated server, it crashed in less than a week and I lost about 3 articles because I didn’t have backups… I’m sorry for all those friends who commented on these new posts! Now they’re gone. Anyway, I wanted to find a good shared hosting plan to host my websites, so I’ve done researches for about a week and asked for reviews from webmasters about some known hosting plans; and guess what? Hostgator.com Baby hosting plan was the best… No one ever had a problem with that hosting company, amazing support really!

So… I hope I won’t get into troubles anymore because I’m really sick of transferring my websites, backing up and stuff!
Stay tuned

On the new year’s eve, I put a list of goals to achieve this year… and one of them was to buy a Mercedes CLK!!! but I’ve changed my mind hehe!

Check out this Ferrari 360 Modena:

Wish me luck!! I don’t need it though

Ah.. not to forget, this is Mario’s favorite car too long live 20 October

Dear friends,

You love Yasser Arafat, Bachir Gemayel, Hafez El Asad, Kamal Jumblat, Sleiman Frangieh, Kamil Shamoun, Raymond Edde, Dany Chamoun, Rafik El Hariri, Pierre Gemayel, Elias Sarkis, Imam Moussa El Sadr, Saad Haddad, Amin Gemayel, Elie Hobeika, Nabih Berri, Walid Jumblat, Michel Aoun, Samir Geagea or … ???

For all Lebanese young guys and girls, if you are really Lebaneses, watch this video and try to learn a lesson!!

Thank you Pierre Dawaliby and all your team! You’re such a genius dude!

I composed a song when I was 18 years old, and I would like to share it with you and take your opinion! It’s an Oriental Progressive Metal instrumental, it’s kinda symphonic because there exist 17 instruments. The recording of this piece was done on my old desktop pc; I looked everywhere by that time for Sound Fonts and found interesting ones. I did not know enough about DXi and VXTi (Virtual Instruments) by that time but I managed very well with sound fonts.

This song is called “Sahara’s Fate”. Why Sahara’s Fate? well, there are no lyrics, but you will see how this piece expressed my story or my version of the very well known myth “Noah’s Arc”. The hero in this song is Dramata who is a beast sent by God to clean up the earth! By that time, God was angry because of the human behavior. Dramata was the flood that covered the whole Sahara! Only one man and woman stood outside the gate, they had the honor to establish a new life style. This is in brief the theme of this song, you might want to read the lyrics of this song which were never sang! I think this song expressed my story musically much better. In the end, I’m not anymore into this kind of music but I’m still so much interested in Mythology which cannot really be expressed with my current style of music (Jazz/Blues). I cannot deny that this is the piece of music that took time the most (around 3 months) and it’s still one of my favorite compositions. You will notice that I did not record any guitar with this piece because I couldn’t afford paying for a studio, even though, I had a chance to record in a professional studio but after few sessions things started to get messed up because time was not that year a friend of mine and my manager/friend Bash. Anyway… enough talking! Listen to Sahara’s Fate and give me your opinion:

Download: Elie Khoury - Sahara’s Fate

Here goes the lyrics or the story of this song:
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Can I know who blocked me on MSN?

NO!

Can I check if someone has blocked me on MSN?

mmm, yea maybe!

How?

Give him/her a phone call, and ask him/her! simple eh?

Come on man! Seriously! please tell me how
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I’m starting to notice more and more white hair… Damn I’m getting old! Anyway, I was wondering how will I look like 10 years from now. So, I played a little bit with photoshop and came out with this photo:

Alright… Stop laughing

“Make your hair white” photoshop tutorial is coming soon!

In response to Windows Live Custom Domains, Google has created a new service “Google Apps” where you can forward your CNames and MX records to google service and they will take care of your emails, calendars, start page! You can customize and alter the google logos.

If you have a domain name, do not miss this killer service. Subscribe now at www.google.com/a.

Here’s a screenshot of my email inbox:

Later!

As I’m reading other blogs, I found out that too many bloggers are posting their AdSense checks. I decided to show you one of mine. (Now you’ve got an answer all of you who are asking me how much I can make with adsense, but guys, It’s not my goal… )