Al Jazeera English and pulled out the iPad. I then looked up and saw the Vice President of Egypt start to make an announcement. “Hosni Mubarak has waived the office of presidency….” WTF? Is this live? I grabbed my glasses to look for the LIVE ticker and then the next scene was pandemonium. I had to turn down the TV volume. Mumbarak was gone, and Al Jazeera, to their credit, then showed nothing but screaming crowds for what seemed like 5 minutes. I booted up Twitter and it hadn’t hit yet. I started blasting some messages and within about a minute I was getting replies and other updates from the breaking news services. It was kind of funny to still get my assortment of tech related messages coming through oblivious to the world changing outside, but eventually Twitter caught up to the fast changing events happening on TV. Talk about a random moment to wake up. A few minutes later and I would have been too late. A few minutes earlier and I probably would have gotten bored and checked the movie channels. Here is how it played on Al Jazeera:
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