It’s a good morning so far.. the garden is looking good, one of the parrots started to come down to eat some bread and fruit Frances puts out every morning for the birds, and the Passion Flower climber is quite happy with its new location. I got an email from Yousifnet telling me that he …
A neat module designed by John Cox, it grabs the del.icio.us tags from an account over the last week and automatically enters them as an article in a Xaraya site. I might as well make this another feature, so how about sharing these tags every Saturday morning? Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user mahmood "Free Trade …
Mating rose-ringed parakeets, originally uploaded by malyousif. These two were going at it and were almost completely oblivious of me being about 15 meters away snapping pictures of them! They nest in the eaves; which unfortunately for us, they are ripping apart. We see plenty of evidence of them “preparing” their nest by wood chips …
Ashoora procession/haidar, originally uploaded by jamalaly. Images of commemoration of Imam Hussain‘s martyrdom in Karbalah on the 10th of Muharram in 680 CE. The “haidar” is a barbaric and completely unwarranted and unneeded custom which does more damage to Shiism than anything else. The Shi’as pride themselves as “progressive” in that they have “Ijtihad” which …
A French newspaper reprinted on Wednesday a series of 12 Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad that have sparked protests in the Muslim world and prompted Saudi Arabia to recall its ambassador from Denmark. The France Soir daily said it had published the cartoons in the name of freedom of expression and to fight …