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Got Blog?

Even if you do, consider starting a new one at BahrainBlogs.org, the NEW address of the Bahraini blogging community. The service is completely free, non-fattening and very healthy, courtesy of yours truly! As this is a new effort, there are a number of things that still need to be completed for the service to be …

BahrainBlogs.org retooled

I got rather frustrated with the amount of maintenance and manual updates I have had to do on BahrainBlogs.org running WordPress and a no longer maintained feed aggregator plugin that I had to find a radical solution to fix this mess. Thankfully, I fell upon a mention of an aggregator in progress how-to-install post on …

Spinning it already?

Alarm at Shia gains in Bahrain’s elections By Kim Sengupta Belfast Telegraph 28 November 2006 A radical Shia Islamist group has made significant gains in Bahrain’s national elections, raising serious concern among neighbouring conservative Sunni monarchies in the region. Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society has won 16 of the 40 seats in parliament and the party …