Month: June 2008

Cementing the GCC ties

We’re having yet another “crisis” in Bahrain. This time, it comes in cementy flavour! FOREIGN racketeers are being blamed for a cement crisis which has crippled Bahrain’s construction industry.The suspension of supplies from Saudi is costing Bahrain’s contractors more than BD4 million a day, says sources. [GDN 12.06.08] Let me first confess that I don’t …

Garden porn

Long view on a rainy day at Manito, originally uploaded by Idaho Gardener. Do I need to say more? What a wonderful bed. I don’t know what these plants are, well I might know a couple, but this gives me ideas for what I can convert yet another patch of lawn to. If only they …

Now I’ll buy it!

Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with …