It’s been such a long time ago that I used dial-up, that connecting now from the hotel in Dubai at 28.8kbps makes me REALLY appreciate even the crappy service we get from Batelco in Bahrain! In here for the next 3 days to attend the Gitex exhibition, the premier IT exhibition in the region. But …
like this water rat wouldn’t you if you suddenly woke up and found that the democracy that everyone is applauding in your country is a mere myth?
OpenOffice.org 1.1 can be downloaded now. It represents months of testing, improvement, innovation. There is no other office suite like it, either in terms of features or code. And it’s free. Right now, it’s only available in English. Different languages will be ready shortly. OpenOffice.org I have completely switched to OpenOffice and will never go …
While we continue to languish in Batelco‘s shadow with their inferior internet connections and exhorbitant broadband rates and their stranglehold on the .bh domain, CERN has achieved a new internet speed record and have transferred 1.1 Terabytes of data at 5.44 gigabits a second (Gbps) to a lab at the California Institute of Technology! Think …
It might be so in some nearby countries, but the scene on Friday night at the local Ahli Club was not so unusual in Bahrain. A Bahraini minister and dozens of citizens, all Muslims of course, were among the hundreds of guests and parishioners who gathered there to celebrate the consecration of the St Mary’s …