Year: 2005

… إلا في بلادي!

كنت أشكو لأحد الزوار من مشكلاتنا مع الفساد والمفسدين، مشيرا إلى حديث جلالة الملك – حفظه الله – بشأن ذلك الأمر في خطابه عند افتتاحه دور الانعقاد السابق، فقال لي الزائر: “بوس إيدك مقلوبة”! فقلت له: لماذا؟ فقال: سأروي لك قليلا عما يجري في بلادي. ورحبت بذلك، وسأنقل لكم جانبا مما قاله الزائر عن بلاده …

Oy! Whatchagonado now?

Al-Wefaq won’t be playing come October 2006. They’re just not interested, and judging by how impotent our parliament, its bylaws and the constitution is and the impossibility of changing it from within, I don’t blame them. Yes, I realise that this is a change in my position. I was angered by their first boycott, fully …

Law 56, again.

Member of Parliament, the right honourable Shaikh Jassim Al-Saidi, an upstanding citizen, and erstwhile Imam of a mosque in Riffa, and brought to parliament rightly by gathering 1673 votes in a hard-fought and contested election in his Southern Governate out of 4,413 (as opposed to any candidate in the Northern Governate who would have had …

Corporate Blogging

For the last 15 years I’ve been trying various software packages, free (as in open source) and bought to share information effectively with our very small company. We’re only 4 people, but each of us has his/her own area of expertise, and just shouting out an idea is just so disruptive. So we join the …