Bahrain Bloggers’ Gathering

It’s almost that time of the month again… What: Bahrain Bloggers’ and their readers’ monthly chinwag Where: Al-Bareh Cafe When: 6th April 2006 at 2000hrs (that’s 8pm to non-airline/military folk) How much: Approximately BD6 per person if you’re having dinner, which is highly recommended! We need to know the number of people coming; hence, I …

Told you so!

Remember this discussion we’ve had way back in April 2004 in which I contended that: This is however what I have seen, an unsuspecting motorsports tourist approaches, he gets handed the “package” he walks away opening it as he does so thinking he’ll get something about motorsports, a restaurant guide, a tourist map, etc and …

Ship Disaster

Rescue workers bring a body ashore in Manama after a passenger boat sank off the coast of Bahrain in the Gulf, March 30, 2006 MANAMA (Reuters) – At least 57 people drowned when a tourist boat carrying more than 130 people on a dinner cruise sank off Bahrain, a coastguard official said on Friday. A …

Moving again…

I’ve ordered a bigger server for my sites from RackSpace and it should be built and made available to me to migrate all the data into it in the next few days. Hopefully that will mean better reliability and availability of the sites. The new server will also have a new IP address, so there …

New New Garden Centre!

Yippeee! I stopped over this afternoon at the new Jassim’s garden centre, opposite Bahrain Motors on the Budaiya highway and man, was it worth it! It absolutely floors the competition; they’ve got everything under one very modern roof. Well stocked, plenty of medicines if you need them, good selection and reasonably priced garden tools and …