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Best 48 hours in a long time. Weather in Hurghada was awesome! Two days of fabulous fishing, eating, drink and having a great time with a great group of people. Farid, I salute you for your awesome sense of humor!! We still beat you though:-)) thanks Ragy for the excellent organization. You should turn this into a business :-)) - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Yay. Good fir 48 hours!!!

Awesome cook on the boat! Ladies, all our Mrs out there, you have serious competition.

We finally paid off a barracuda school to donate a young one for the competing team!!!! Mabrouk!!

Poor Farid :-))(

Guys. We can still help :-)

Joint catch for Sherif and Shaheer team!!! Poor Farid and Ragy. We are happy to help you if you ask kindly :-)

Lines cast and we are cruising.

Just woke up. Last one on the boat. Shaheer already up and hyper active :-). Can't this be groundhog day??

Congrats everyone!!! we just had a great dinner with seafood soup, calamaria and fried fish!! Not to mention the wine. Can we please have the same weather tomorrow?

Mabrouk!!!

We have it on video but the sound track required too much censorship to share. Shutting down fir breakfast now. Total tally: 2 tuna 2 nagel 1 farid contraption. سمكة حصان. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

11 kg!! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Farid finally catches something. This is a سمكة حصان. Guess what he will do with it? - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Yay!!! Second tuna for the day! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

First tuna of the day!!! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Al Nasr,,Egypt

No fish yet so we're into photo shoots now. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Al Nasr,,Egypt

Excellent first time participation!!! The amount of excitement is mind blowing. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Al Bahr,,Egypt

Farid starting of the trip with contraband through security!!! Took some convincing to get through with sun block :-) Farid they'll check you when you're back for sun burns :-) - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: مطار القاهرة الدولي,,Egypt

Getting ready. Leaving early. We're catching 3am flight to make use of all of tomorrow. Photo updates from airport. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Kornish Al Nile,,Egypt

Ok. So now I think I have cracked this and really understand what is going on. As was highly publicized Facetime is not available on Middle East phones. I have a UK unlocked iPhone 4 and had Facetime running on it for a while, but recently lost that functionality. This drove me to try to find out exactly what is going on and how Facetime is being blocked or allowed: 1. Phones acquired from the Middle East operators have a specific model number that looses full Facetime functionality when upgraded to 4.1. Basically the "regions" file contains a NOVOIP key that kills Facetime and makes the Facetime toggle switch in Phone Settings disappear. That's the easy part :-) 2. Facetime activates on the phone by sending an SMS to a UK number. Simply put, every time you try to activate Facetime the phone will send a background message to a UK number that includes things like IMEI, Mac address etc. Apple will respond back with an acknowledgement that confirms activation and associates

1. Apple iPhone 4: If you think this is just a new shape for the iPhone, again!!! This is an awesome phone with a perfect screen. Been using it since the 10th of the month and honestly speaking, this is the best phone I've ever had. Those who know me, know how many these have been!!! 2. New Macbook Pro 2.66 i7/8GB RAM/ Anti Glare High Res screen: Just got it last night. Thanks Luni and Karim :-) This thing flies!! Pretty crisp and screaming fast. Makes the previous MBPro feel like a Windows machine :-)

Catching the red eye tonight. Back Wednesday noon.