Archive | 2008

It’s over

Over the last few years of active blogging, and BBSing and other forms of electronic communication since 1986, I have decided to stop active blogging and would like to thank everyone for their friendship, support, suggestions and comments.

It’s been fun, but it’s time to move on.

Thanks very much and best of luck to everyone. It’s been a pleasure.

Excuse the silence

It's been blissfully busy at work over the last few weeks, and it doesn't seem like it's going to ebb any time soon. Me very happy!

It's been blissfully busy at work over the last few weeks, and it doesn't seem like it's going to ebb any time soon. Me very happy!

For the first time in a very long time I actually feel guilty for not updating the blog. I am genuinely busy and haven’t had a day’s rest for a long time. This is Good™ and I’m not complaining.

To put you in the picture, I have 8 productions all happening at the same time; one must be finished before the 20th of this month, another before the 27th and then two more in October, one in November with another in December an the pipeline is not finished! I’ve got more in the stream and I am sure that we will have to slot a few more productions before the year is out.

I loved this theme, I even called it Athari, but I reconise now that maybe the "regular" way of displaying posts on a blog is what most people want. Enjoy Athari2!

I loved this theme, I even called it Athari, but I reconise now that maybe the 'regular' way of displaying posts on a blog is what most people want. Enjoy Athari2!

That, and last week the server’s motherboard gave up which left us in the lurch. I didn’t have time to look at it but took it to a local shop to be seen to. As luck would have it, we couldn’t find the same brand of motherboard (of course!) so the OS (Linux) complained and refused to boot. As the drive has a lot of our sensitive data, I couldn’t afford to just wipe it out and start over again. I commandeered another workstation from the office and installed the server software on it, installed the old server’s drive in the hope that I could just boot up and copy the stuff across, but as I almost completely forgot Linux, and inundated with other stuff that is happening, I just couldn’t get my head around simply booting in rescue mode, mounting the old hard disk into a temporary directory and copying its data across. Well, after hours of opening and closing the computer, that thought finally registered and I am typing this as I hear the drives whirr by my side copying data to the new drive. Hopefully it won’t be too much of a palava to re-index the IMAP messages and we should be back up and running fully by the weekend.

That is, if the other bits in between allows me to with at least 2 shoot and a final edit scheduled for this week.

Enough of the boring whining. I just hope you understand as I am sure you will.

But as a parting present to all of those who complained about the theme and wanted the regular chronological full article display on the home page, well, I had a couple of hours in the weekend to tinker with the theme a bit and here it is…. I hope you like it.

Love ya!

No Plastic Bags at Al-Osra

They’re certainly not the first supermarket in Bahrain to try to get rid of plastic bags and wrappings and I hope it won’t be the last either, but my friend Muneera – who is no stranger to health and healthy lifestyle herself – informed me that yesterday Al-Osra started their environmental experiment in earnest by replacing the packing plastic bags with paper ones. She thought – as I do – that this is a good thing to explore, so off I went with my trusty Flip video camera (thanks again go to my brother Jamal for allowing me to steal it!) and investigated.

You could view the results yourself of course, but what I came out with in the end is that much more than these “anti plastic bags” campaign, educational campaigns about environmental responsibility and education are very much needed for both adults and children in this country.