Ministry for Clarification of Clarifications

March 10, 2010

I’m glad that the situation regarding the requirement for an Emirates ID Card has been clarified. Previously, as reported on the EIDA website, in the local press, and also here on this blog, it was not going to be possible for residents (both Emirati and expatriate) to do anything offical without one:
“…the Ministry of Interior [...]

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The things you see…

March 10, 2010

A flowers roastery.
I’m obviously missing something, but I can’t work out what it is.
A mistranslation perhaps?

Read more at Life in Dubai

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Taking my Blog to the Next Level (Part 2): Widgetizing & Thumbnailing

March 9, 2010

Following up on part 1, this is where I share the details and steps I went through to widgetize my theme (using dynamic sidebars) and then enhance the layout by leveraging WordPress version 2.9.2…
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Computer Shisha / YaHookah

March 9, 2010

YaHookah! The computer you can smokeYaHookah!
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Wet air

March 9, 2010

The humidity’s kicked in again, making the roads even more dangerous than usual.
There wasn’t much traffic on my 7.30 drive this morning and, apart from a black Land Rover Sport (what else!) that couldn’t stay within the lane markers, the road etiquette was pretty good.
No hazard lights flashing, most vehicles with dimmed headlights on, I [...]

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Armaggedon!

March 9, 2010

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I have made the point before that the publishing industry is following a business model dependent on its inherent inefficiency. The original post is linked here, but basically my contention is that the whole industry is built on the cost of distributing a product, squid and dead trees squeezed through rollers, that is [...]

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Social Media – The View From Rome

March 8, 2010

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Author Caroline Lawrence is best known for The Roman Mysteries series of historical novels for children. The series spans seventeen highly popular books although Caroline has now written twenty books in total.
She’s coming to Dubai to attend the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature – and she’s also coming along to the EAFL public [...]

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This really makes me angry.

March 8, 2010

There was the worst kind of tragic event in Melbourne a few days ago when a three year old child was found dead, dumped at the roadside twenty kilometres from his home.
He was a little boy called Gurshan Singh, who happened to be Indian and who was on holiday in Oz with his parents. Dad [...]

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Stung by Sting

March 7, 2010

So we decided to go to the Sting concert the other day…despite me vowing never to go to another concert ever again after the Shakira fiasco. But I figured, what the hell…Shakira was 3 years ago, Mirage promotions is nowhere close to being involved in this concert, so why not…Plus, I mean, this was Sting!The [...]

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Taking my Blog to the Next Level (Part 1): Mazenville v4

March 7, 2010

The fact that recently 4 months passed by without me blogging at all is totally unacceptable. I had to make personal amendments and technical ones to fix that and make sure blogging is back into the…
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