A couple of days ago, an important and sacred shi’a mosque was destroyed reportedly by Wahabis or their sympathisers. Yesterday, another group again reported to be Wahabis attacked the most important oil manifold in the world in Abqaiq, a couple of hours’ drive from Bahrain. These actions are hardly indiscriminate. In the first, a clear …
Month: February 2006
I’ve restored the database backup of Feb 19th on Xaraya and that seems to be working fine, which confirms that the error in the site was not just the heavy spam attack it has received from the 19th onwards, but due to restarting the server (several times while I was investigating) the database got corrupted. …
First, welcome to the new Mahmood’s Den! Although this might be a very temporary location until I get things sorted out with the Xaraya site. I’ve tried just about everything I know but have not been successful. If you can lend a hand, I would highly appreciate it. Second, I missed you all terribly. Unfortunately …
A neat module designed by John Cox, it grabs the del.icio.us tags from an account over the last week and automatically enters them as an article in a Xaraya site. I might as well make this another feature, so how about sharing these tags every Saturday morning? Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user mahmood "Free Trade …
Listen to Hashim Al Alawi’s original music compositions. Music that touches your soul and takes you to another world. A beautiful mixture of Arabic, Ambient, and Experimental music brought to you directly from the Artist himself. I’ll be posting some of my music here, you’ll find clips from my previous two albums, Desert Beat and …