Month: April 2006

Tonight at Albareh…

Guys, don’t forget that we’re meeting tonight at Albareh Cafe. I’ll arrive there in about 30 minutes to have a look at the excellent sculptures of Iraqi artist Ahmed Al-Bahrani’s exhibition which actually closes tonight, so this is the very last time you will be able to enjoy the sculptures! See you there in a …

Boot Camp

Thanks to the heads up by my friends Sofyan a couple of days ago, and now Doug, there is no longer a reason to buy crappy PCs when you can buy Macs, as now, thanks to Apple’s soon to be released operating system version 10.5 (leopard) Apple Mac users can simply install both Windows XP …

ATM warning

I got this from the UAE Community Blog, please be careful using ATMs, I know there was a case a few weeks ago in Bahrain where two Bulgarians were apprehended supposedly for mounting such a crime, but there was no follow-up in the local press about them (I can’t recall a follow-up). This article is …

Will it take an act of God?

“Despite the presence of a large number of Saudi women drivers in Bahrain, not a single case of traffic violation has been registered against them,” Al-Riyadh Arabic daily quoted Sameem as saying. Bahrain’s traffic department has issued driving licenses to 1,107 Saudi women, Sameem confirmed. He said Saudi women have displayed exceptional control and concentration …