The bloggers’ episode of Diwaniyyat Al-Osbou is going to air tonight on Kuwait TV’s Channel 1 at 10.30pm (+3UTC) which should also be repeated at 1.30PM tomorrow. I’ll stay up especially to view it and I hope that it’ll be okay and that you’ll enjoy it, if you choose to watch that is. I would …
Year: 2007
Abbas’ funeral procession shot from my office’s balcony this evening (9 Apr ’07) It saddens me to learn that the security guard Abbas Al-Shakhoori has passed away this morning after being in a coma and declared brain-dead over a week ago. I join other Bahraini citizens and call on the Ministry of Interior to exert …
I got this picture in an email from a friend this morning; the picture shows a car, the significance of which is that its owner has plastered his various certificates on it, and has even put a caption on his read windshield saying “Unemployed National.” I’m not sure how to take this; is he making …
Sorry for the late greeting, just back from Riyadh where I was all day for a business meeting. Came back through a set of weird weather: a huge sand-storm for about 100kms from Riyadh mixed in some parts with rain! Then a lull of a couple and then into a thunder storm galore for the …
update 9 Apr, ’07: I am told that Batelco has started to block the sites again, but rather than blocking them at the proxy servers (which are in a sad state, it seems) they are blocking them directly at the router, which means it is going to be harder to bypass that block. I’ve checked …