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LATEST ARTICLES ( 65 )

• Pots & Kettles

  Just about all of the news outlets I use are suggesting the 'international community' needs to step in to stop more bloodshed in Libya. By 'international... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2011 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Libya End Game

  Seemingly, to me, the Libyan revolution came out of nowhere. I really expected other places such as Yemen to dominate the headlines about people power. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Amazing Photo

  

  Well I think it's amazing.The earthquake in Christchurch dislodged a car-sized boulder near Lyttleton. You can follow its path as it rolled across the lawn and... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Her Fate?

  Yesterday I posted a link to a mobile phone conversation between a woman trapped under her desk in a collapsed office building in Christchurch and a tv... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Listen to This

  TV Channel 9 here in Oz has broadcast an amazing interview over her mobile phone with an Aussie woman trapped in her Christchurch office building after today's... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Happy News, but Then...

  

  The day in this region started off on a happy note, with the simultaneous arrival in Sydney Harbour of the luxury ocean liners Queen Mary 2 and the Queen... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2011 ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Going, Going...

  I said on a blog somewhere that the Bahrain demonstrators were demanding change in government, they were not against the monarchy. (I think it must have been... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bahrain a Domino?

  While the scaremongers have in the past often warned of the domino theory it hasn't actually happened. But it does look as though it's happening this time. And... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Benihana Kuwait's Blogger Attack

  

  Here's the review that resulted in a blogger being sued for damages:My Benihana ExperienceA few days back I posted about Benihana opening up at the Avenues and... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2011 BUSINESS, DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK, LEGAL

• A Historic Day

  What an amazing couple of weeks in Egypt.The seemingly unmoveable Mubarak regime has gone. A regime not only brutal in the way it usually treated dissent and... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• E-mail Bigotry

  

  Why is the world in a mess?Here's a thought for a big part of it - far too many people are intolerant and bigoted. Adamant that only they are right, believing... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2011 DEBATE, RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Me & Twitter

  In a post the other day about blogging I said I couldn't get my head around Twitter and I should do a post on it so that, maybe, you can tell me where I'm... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2011 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Cyclones, Floods & Fires

  

  Mother Nature is dominating the news here in Oz, showing that we're a real land of extremes.As I said yesterday, in Sydney we've had a record hot spell.... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2011 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• Whingeing Weather

  I see Dubai's weather is rain, low temperatures, a shamal and sand storms.Sydney has whingeing weather too. We're in day six of a heat wave and the whingeing... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2011

• Cyclone Yasi

  

  There are hundreds of photos in the media showing damage caused up in Far North Queensland by cyclone Yasi, but one in particular seems to me to sum up the powe... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2011 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• A-OK After Cyclone Yasi

  

  Well, it was a category five cyclone, the same as Katrina which devastated New Orleans, but current reports are no deaths or serious injuries.Cyclone Yasi veere... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2011 ENVIRONMENT, WEATHER

• Benihana Kuwait Update

  You surely must know that the big story in cyberspace is Benihana Kuwait, that's the Japanese-style restaurant franchise, suing a Kuwaiti blogger because, in... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2011 BUSINESS, DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK, LEGAL

• Wild Weather Again

  A tiring journey, almost exactly 24 hours door-to-door when I arrived home at 11pm yesterday.There's also a seven hour time difference to adjust to, so I'm all... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2011

• Sued for Saying He Didn't Like His Meal.

  In case you've missed it I have to draw your attention to a post by Alexander on Fake Plastic Souks.Briefly, a Kuwaiti blogger posted a restaurant review, in... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2011 FOOD & DRINK, TECH

• Weird Wild Weather

  

  I'd just about finished yesterday's post when Mrs Seabee called to say she'd finished in the office and was outside our building waiting to go to lunch. I walke... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL, WEATHER