(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I have, as you may have noticed, a blog. I also have a number of followers on Twitter, Google+ and a few p...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm constantly battling the urge to beat people to death with their own selfie sticks. I know it...

Gerrard King's Memento Mori The search for a cover image for Shemlan: A Deadly Tragedy was a long one. It was always going to be ...

(Photo credit: @cpe ) This is the week Dubai goes Expo 2020 bonkers and if you thought the noise level was already high, you ai...

United Arab Emirates (Photo credit: saraab™ ) The National newspaper today confirms what has long been an odd quirk here in the UA...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gulf News today carries a roundup of recent cases of bloggers and tweeters in trouble around the ...

Color your World (Photo credit: Michelle Brea ) For some time, The Niece From Hell was in the endearing habit of filling any untoward s...

Image via CrunchBase Apple has an office in the UAE. Operating out of Abu Dhabi media zone TwoFour54, it would appear to be somethi...

Eida (Photo credit: cgsheldon ) A lovely piece in Khaleej Times today lifted from national news agency WAM  telling us how the E...

Pound for pound, the Lebanese LIRA is the daftest regulation you'll see in quite a while. It's yet another example of a governme...

Image via CrunchBase It must be me, but Gulf News seems more and more crammed with court reports than anything else these days and they...

Image via Wikipedia "A Facebook group on the conflict between the army and Fatah Al Islam in Lebanon grew a membership of 8,000 in a...

Image via Wikipedia Facebook has tossed its hat into the mobile handset ring according to TechCrunch today . The move is fascinating and ad...

Image by Fati.m.a Maria via Flickr It was inevitable that we'd see such a case one day. Dubai's Misdemeanours Court yesterday heard...

Image via Wikipedia An interesting piece filed by AP today on 'social netiquette', talking about the increasing problems of how we m...

A certain media organisation in Dubai has blocked its staff from using Facebook during working hours. This is interesting. I have spent quit...

In celebration of the 1000th member of the chucklesome Facebook Group: proof that he is, indeed, evil. Hmmm... I can feel a meme coming on....

It's not that pal and colleague Carrington has posted up a rubber chicken for auction on Facebook. It's not that he took the troubl...

Yes, that most pernicious of social networks has kicked into action and there's now a Facebook Group ' Death to Modhesh '. Oh de...