General

And the nominees are…

I wish to extend my thanks to everyone who nominated the Den for the 2007 bloggies, unfortunately we didn’t make it this year, but there are others who are just as worthy who have been nominated: Healing Iraq My Marrakesh Raising Yousuf, Unplugged Dotty Rhino Secret Dubai Diary Please take a moment to vote for …

Say hello to Ella

I’ve upgraded the blog this afternoon to the latest release of WordPress, 2.1, code-named Ella for Ella Fitzgerald. There are many fixes, security enhancements and improvements on the previous release (obviously) and it should also be faster and leaner. I think the actual upgrade went well and as far as I can tell nothing is …

Awakenings?

There is a very interesting analysis piece on UPI today which discusses the situation in Iraq and attributes the majority of blame on a variety of factors, the main one is the 1911 British support of Al-Saud and their Wahabi cohorts as well as the staunch developed relationship between the troika: UK, USA and KSA. …

Quickies

Jaffar is furious, and the Arabic language is poetic in communicating that anger. Farah loves soft beds and has no qualms on flouting the law to get those sheets… even if it also means getting a dose of Eau de Grandma in the process. Does the dog get to go on the bed though? That’s …