Tag Archives: community

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with the amount of maintenance and manual updates I have had to do on BahrainBlogs.org running WordPress and a no longer maintained feed aggregator plugin that I had to find a radical solution to fix this mess.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 …

Very quickly

Over the last few days three things were brought to the fore in the local press after people continued to point fingers and talk about the situations in their majlises etc: one thing that has been talked about for years in Bahrain is the issue of naturalization, which is a very emotive subject with the …

33 days

Okay, 1701 has been adopted. Fragile as it is, it is still generally holding, even with Hizballah and Israel exchanging fire again this morning (Hizballah has been reported to have fired up to 10 Katyusha rockets at Israeli positions within Southern Lebanon) and as people in their thousands have started the re-migration back to what …

Shame on you!

It has been a long standing tradition in Bahrain, as is the case with the rest of the Gulf specifically, that whenever there is an occasion, whatever the occasion, big business and government agencies take out substantial and costly adverts in all the national papers lauding a personality, extending greetings or congratulating a royal personality. …