I’m glad that Dr. Rafeia Ghabash, the president of Gulf University in Bahrain, protested against the sexual segregation at a workshop at KAAU on Tuesday. ““We respect local traditions but the role of women must be activated and increased because the discussions are about human and social issues of importance to women,”” she said. This is exactly why other countries of GCC are better than Saudi Arabia. In other countries, local traditions are respected but they are not sacral. They can be changed and modified to suit the modern world. Traditions are not a part of the religion, and even religion is flexible and can undergo changes.

And now this is what I’ve been expecting. Votes up for sale.

The first municipal elections are making a lot of buzz around here. There are some problems with timing. According to this story, voters in Riyadh have only 12 days to decided which candidate, among the 646 candidates, deserves their vote.

Something on the rants of a waiter in NYC.

The point that Matt Haughey lost all respect for Bill Gates.

Rebecca Blood makes some really good points on a problem she has noticed with the Technorati tagging system. The other problem she has noticed is not only with Technorati. Kinja has a similar problem. I’ve noticed that some websites has updated several times during a certain period, however, Kinja does not show any of the updates.

The Saudi columnist Khairia al-Saif is happy to see Turki al-Dakheel hosting his own show on al-Arabia TV with a big success, but she does not like some of his guests. Here’s a little suggestion for Mrs. Al-Saif: If you don’t like the guest, simply turn off the TV.