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Sunday, July 04, 2004
I will now be able catch up on updating the site. I could not believe how impossible it was for me provide significant (in size at least) updates from Lebanon. I simply did not have the time, and the internet connections in Lebanon (except from Rami's office at AUB) were painfully slow. You see: it even got worse. Internet use in Lebanon has gone up from something like 2 % to something like 23 % in a matter of few years. But one IP address is hooked to a whole neighborhood. There is a lot of congestion and overload in the system. For those who care: as I had said, I never carry a camera and never keep pictures of myself, and avoid them. I also do not keep tapes of interviews with me. But I have received digital pictures of my appearance at the Burj AlBarajnah refugee camp. I may post some of them (NEAL! NEAL! NEAL! Where are you!)