How do you, as ruler of Dubai, send your congratulations on the launch of an e-library? By tweeting, of course. His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai (very long title) is keeping people updated on government issues, business issues, a recently taken…
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Flickr Unavailable
Guessing the holiday snaps won’t be going up on Flickr this time around. I’m convinced I was able to upload them this time last year but but the TRA and its Internet Access Management Regulatory Policy has outfoxed me this time. (If you’re in the UAE and try to click the Flickr link above you’ll…
Blogs Banned In Dubai
I thought this might happen… I ran a search on Google earlier this morning for ‘blogging in Dubai’, to see what bloggers in this neck of the woods are up to. While some of them opened, others presented the above note… Du is one of the country’s mobile operators and I’m guessing one of their…
Dubai Here I Come
photo credit: James Temple I don’t go away places often. Flying to Toronto in 2006 was the first time I’d been on a plane in about ten years (that said, on years in between I had taken a ferry over to France now and again). But since college life began seven years or more, I…