Month: March 2006

Ship Disaster

Rescue workers bring a body ashore in Manama after a passenger boat sank off the coast of Bahrain in the Gulf, March 30, 2006 MANAMA (Reuters) – At least 57 people drowned when a tourist boat carrying more than 130 people on a dinner cruise sank off Bahrain, a coastguard official said on Friday. A …

Moving again…

I’ve ordered a bigger server for my sites from RackSpace and it should be built and made available to me to migrate all the data into it in the next few days. Hopefully that will mean better reliability and availability of the sites. The new server will also have a new IP address, so there …

New New Garden Centre!

Yippeee! I stopped over this afternoon at the new Jassim’s garden centre, opposite Bahrain Motors on the Budaiya highway and man, was it worth it! It absolutely floors the competition; they’ve got everything under one very modern roof. Well stocked, plenty of medicines if you need them, good selection and reasonably priced garden tools and …

It’s going to rain..

and you can bet your bottom Dollar on this prediction, and it’s going to happen soon. Why am I so sure? Well, because he asked for the traditional rain-dance! When that happens you better believe that the best forecasters were hard at work predicting when it’s going to happen! Hang on a minute.. isn’t looking …

Roll Film!

To the budding film-makers in us, read this: Grants Available to Arab TV companies to produce local content Independent Arab television news producers TV Production Fund Small Grants awards will be made under the MENA MEDIA program, administered through the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) and AmmanNet. Up to ten television journalists and producers …