Wow, seems .NET Guy isn't blocked on my ISP, Pars Online, anymore. As a matter of fact the IP address which blongs to Hosting Matter is not blocked so I can visit it. So, the websites which were hosted on Hosting Matter should have become free already. I hope this continues and all websites which are blocked, become free. But persianblog, still has blocked IPs of Pars Online so we can't visit them in an straight way. Hamed Banaei discusses how to view them using Pars Online. I am not so cruel to only talk about sites which are blocked, I will talk about the ones which were blocked and became free too. I hope not to see these sites blocked again.

heLP .Net has talked about our internet restrictions in his weblog, thanks heLP .Net.

According to what MSNBC says, Canadian's mother says Iran pressed her on burial, in an interview with Yas-e No newspaper. What's more, Vice-President says she has been murdered according to this article.

I don't know whats going on in my ISP, Pars Online. But as far as I can see, I can't keep my contract with them anymore and will change my ISP within next month. Now, why Internet.com is my new forecast of being blocked? Simply, SearchEngineWatch.com, part of Internet.com, The Internet & IT Network, has been blocked and I can't read a very very good article about Google. Hmmm, you think what should I do?

According to this article, Farsi is the fourth used language in bloggers which claims there are around 27000 Farsi bloggers. Thats great. Link through heLP .Net Blog.

Either you can use GotDotNet Workspaces or trying this guide.

Microdoc-News discusses which blog tool build better Google-indexed blogs. Read More . . .

You can find a good list of Iranian English Bloggers, here.

Good news is that Second News will come up very soon, just please send me news resources you may like to see in Second News to mailbox at aliparvaresh.com.

After trying all, yes all, of news aggregators, I liked FeedExpress best. The reason is first that it supports CSS for easy news feed, it supports Unicode well and it is .NET based and the best point is that it is free. Fast, easy to use but not many functions are other specifications of it. Try it here.

Yes, she buried in Iran, Shiraz, who died for nothing. Read More . . .

Hehe, I was searching ASPAlliance for something and suddenly faced a very very similar topic to the one I wrote about include in web pages, its title is: "To include or not to include?". Take a look at it.

You can use Visual Studio .NET 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 for 3 hours for free! Go to here.

"TEHRAN (Reuters) - Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi died from a severe blow to her head while in custody in Iran but the exact circumstances of her death and who was to blame required more investigation, a government report said on Sunday." Read More . . .

As you know, I am still working on Second News which will be up very soon with many many new things. I faced a funny problem today while I was working on news resources. Just go to http://www.iribnews.com/front_en.asp?sec=front_en_ir , take a look at its source file and search for < htm l> tag, there should be only one, but in IRIBNews, Iran's TV News Website, there are two starting < html > tags, I first though that it might be a code error, but after checking completely, I understood that they have included another page in the main page (which is supposed to be their search page or something like that), but what they have done wrong is that they haven't mentioned that the include should start from < body > tag, without declaring that, include command will bring everything from the child page to the main page. And now they have a very good looking web page, but how come Internet Explorer shows it. I think Internet Explorer always ignore < html > or < body > or < meta > tags, thats why it is shown in Internet Explorer in the way it is expected. Please, please, please use html tags in the way the should be used.

And now all the world are being informed that weblogs were blocked by my respectful ISP, Pars Online! An article by CNN.

I just said that I get 403 Forbidden error while visiting persianblog weblogs, now I know why I get such error! I took a look at persianblog admins blog, and understood that persianblog admins has banned all Pars Online IP addresses and that's why we get 403 error. And the goody is that they have announced this, but whats user's fault that get his service from Pars Online for a month and he can't get his money back? Although I will call them today and I will most probably cancel my contract with them though this will make a lot of excessive expenses for me, but what else can I do? Pars Online should apologize, else they are going to face big problems, I can forecast this. We may have to say BYE BYE Pars Online some day cause of not apologizing. Shouldn't we? Pars Online could be a leader ISP in Iran, but they are destroying what they have made, and this may be solved by apologizing.

"When we first reported on Windows Server 2003 we gave an indication on the numbers of sites that had been put up prior to the official launch. In the three months since the launch the number of active sites has increased by over 300% and now stands at 88,400." Read More . . .

You see, again another news from my lovely ISP, Pars Online! They are going to offer an hour free internet connection because of their mistake. Would someone tell me how can it be granted that Pars Online isn't filtering other websites by mistake too? I never read blogs on their web pages because I only read those got RSS, but I know that persianblog was blocked for around 2 weeks as I said once more, why? Why they have blocked it for such a long time? Now I am trying persianblog weblogs, but can't view them and get 403 Forbidden error, I think the problem is now this time from persianblog itself, or at least I hope so. Now lets see if blogspot is working, yes, I could open one. I don't know whose fault it was that weblogs were blocked, but it was a big mistake and if it was really Pars Online's fault, they SHOULD send apologize email to all its users, what I only see in my Pars Online mail box, is full of Low Credit emails sent by their robot for warning of contract end time. We are waiting to see Pars Online's apology.

Pedram Moallemian writes about his experience of blogging on Iranian.com, read it here.

"TEHRAN, July 16 — Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi, arrested outside a Tehran prison last month, died as a result of beatings, Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Ali Abtahi said on Wednesday. ''According to a report by the health minister she has died of a brain haemorrhage resulting from beatings,'' Abtahi told reporters." Read More . . .

Good news! The biggest library in middle east will be built in Iran. Read More . . .

I think FeedDemon can be my next news aggregator though I use AmphetaDesk right now since NewzCrawler doesn't support Unicode. But FeedDemon supports Unicode and it looks like Microsoft Outlook. It is from BradSoft company, the founder of great software, Top Style. I am willing to see their final retail. But some featuers should be added including the ability to set each news channel to be viewed either Right-To-Left or Left-To-Right.

You see? Yes, my ISP was Pars Online and they have unblocked Persianblog and Blogspot hosted weblogs. According to ITIran, persian IT website, Iran's Telecommunication Company has announced that this was Pars Online's mistake, and as soon as they understood Pars Online's mistake, they have warned them to unblock all weblogs. But I can't understand, why persianblog was blocked for such a long time and Pars Online was not responsible toward it? Because as I remember, it has been blocked for around three weeks! Pars Online should apologize all of its users for not obeying government rules and they should be punished by government. And thanks to Iran's Telecommunication Company for solving this problem. But I still can't see my lovely weblog, .NET Guy.

You may remember that a professor was sentenced to death, now his sentence has been reduced to be jailed for 4 years. Read More . . .

Yes, I should write about technology more than what I do about Iran, but since I am always reading not good news about Iran, right now I prefere writing about my country, Iran. As you may have informed, the Canadian photographer died in Iran yesterday. Rest in peace. More here.

According to AP, Reformist President Mohammad Khatami says he will resign if the Iranian people want him to. Read More . . .

Rest in peace.

"The Iranian conjoined twins who died during surgery to separate them are to be buried on Friday, in the village where they were born." Read More . . .

One killed, 20 injured in an earth quake. Read More . . ..

"Most people do not really understand search engines. Even more people have little idea how each search engine compares for normal everyday searches. Google has stolen the limelight over the last few months, but some of the other search engines have their speciality which Google cannot touch. In this article, I review Google (the search engine everyone has fallen in love with), MSN (the ugly sister), AllTheWeb (trying hard) and Yahoo (the fallen star). Why would one use anything else than Google? There are reasons to use other search engines, and I explore those reasons." Read More . . .

Blogspot, free hosting service for Blogger, Google bought service, has been blocked by my ISP in Iran. The other free weblog hosting company called Persianblog has been blocked from time ago as well! The only thing you can view is http://www.blogspot.com/ and http://www.persianblog.com/. Whats more, they have blocked 64.21.12.2, the IP address which seems hosted by respectful company Hosting Matters, and I can't view my favourite weblog anymore! Yes, I am talking about The .NET Guy. Whats going on there?

Yes, they are back, but not alive.

"TEHRAN, Iran -- The bodies of conjoined twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani have returned to their native Iran following their deaths in a Singapore operating theater." Read More . . .

Iran became third in World RoboCup 2003. According to IRNA, Isfahan University of Technology stood third in the 7th World RoboCup in Italy. But what is its usage? Do you see any improvement in Iran's robots? If there would be no use, why we are seeking for it? For fun? Maybe!

"11am(GMT): Laleh and Ladan Bijani, 29, have died after surgery aimed at separating them, hospital sources and friends say." Read More . . .

Dave Wanta who got a big folder in my outlook, founder of 123aspx, has started blogging. Here you go with the tools he likes to use.

Lets pray for Iranian twins surgery.

Wish the best for doctores and pray God.

"SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unprecedented, high-risk operation to separate adult Iranian twin sisters joined at the head began in Singapore on Sunday, a Raffles Hospital official said." Read More . . .

Before talking about changes, I appreciated all helps and supports you people showed .I have to tell you that new version of Second News is on its way with many new services and other languages as I promised before. Our server will be changing within 72 hours because the old one was not as powerful as we liked. Trust me, you will get what you want on Second News step by step. Thanks for everything again.

Check it here. Link through here.

"TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran is blocking access to Web sites containing pornographic material and opposition-driven dissent against the country's Islamic establishment, an official said Tuesday." Read More . . .

"AiroPeek, a comprehensive packet analyzer for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, is designed to identify and solve wireless network anomalies. It quickly isolates security problems, fully decodes all 802.11 WLAN protocols, and analyzes wireless network performance with accurate identification of signal strength, channel and data rates. AiroPeek incorporates all of the network troubleshooting expertise familiar to users of our award-winning EtherPeek." Read More . . .