Year: 2008

Is this thing on?

I changed the tabber into just a rolling “featured articles” section that rotates through the first 7 latest featured articles. I hope this is less confusing to people. I had to find a solution as the “tabber” feature was the most complained and misunderstood feature on the new site design. I hope you’re okay with …

The Buddha patch

The Buddha patch, originally uploaded by malyousif. I can’t remember when it was that I showed you the Buddha patch last, so here it is as of a couple of hours ago. You can see how scorched some of the plants look. It’s summer. The death season for everything green! Nevertheless, have a wonderful weekend …

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 …