Year: 2005

Filtered?

FALSE ALARM!Thanks to all those who reported. The site is fine and it appears a problem crept into my ADSL router at home, reset to factory defaults and reconfigured. I can access it fine now, although why originally I couldn’t connect to it normally but can through a proxy is mystery I would like to …

Not again!

Can anyone guess what Bahrain’s press freedom index is going to be for 2006? No? Well let’s look at the trend, so we can realistically predict the future: 2002 = 67 2003 = 117 2004 = 167 2005 = 123 Let’s also consider other factors that might assist us in this prediction; emoodz broke the …

Websites ‘shut without notice’

FORTY websites were allegedly shut down this week by the Information Ministry without warning or prior notice, Bahraini webmasters claimed yesterday. They include a number of popular Bahraini websites regularly visited by surfers for political developments in the kingdom. They include www.montadayat.org, which was closed permanently on Monday after being closed on Friday and reopened …