Censorship in Kuwait




Big Mango!

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

KDD has made their Mango Juice bigger size for more satisfying thirst! This is the greatest day in Kuwaiti beverage history.




Big Mango!

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

KDD has made their Mango Juice bigger size for more satisfying thirst! This is the greatest day in Kuwaiti beverage history.


Finally got Connie running Wordpres. My main problem was that I was following this MacZealot’s WordPress Tutorial and it does a great job but I kept ending up with the same error:

“Error establishing a database connection”

I didnt notice that the tutorial was written almost a year ago, visit and the MySql they were using was the version that was available at the time. While I use the latest version. So after RTFM after RTFM and trying out different MySql queries I figured out I just need to upgrade PHP.

Seems that my MySql was the new version 4.1.10a-max, and my PHP was the standard with OSX 10.3 and knew how to communicate to MySql 4.0.20. So had to upgrade my PHP and I wasn’t about to try many random ones, like the one from the Apple site, but those wouldn’t do and glad I didn’t install it blindly like I usually do and read the README. I had to install Mark Liyange’s PHP Package for OSX 10.3 it was a quick and painless upgrade and my WordPress finally worked!

I put WordPress on my laptop so I can do some themes and hacks to my blog and other stuff with out screwing this main site. This is so when I move to 2by4.org I wont be carrying the bloat thats in my current install.




Big Mango!

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

KDD has made their Mango Juice bigger size for more satisfying thirst! This is the greatest day in Kuwaiti beverage history.


Finally got Connie running Wordpres. My main problem was that I was following this MacZealot’s WordPress Tutorial and it does a great job but I kept ending up with the same error:

“Error establishing a database connection”

I didnt notice that the tutorial was written almost a year ago, visit and the MySql they were using was the version that was available at the time. While I use the latest version. So after RTFM after RTFM and trying out different MySql queries I figured out I just need to upgrade PHP.

Seems that my MySql was the new version 4.1.10a-max, and my PHP was the standard with OSX 10.3 and knew how to communicate to MySql 4.0.20. So had to upgrade my PHP and I wasn’t about to try many random ones, like the one from the Apple site, but those wouldn’t do and glad I didn’t install it blindly like I usually do and read the README. I had to install Mark Liyange’s PHP Package for OSX 10.3 it was a quick and painless upgrade and my WordPress finally worked!

I put WordPress on my laptop so I can do some themes and hacks to my blog and other stuff with out screwing this main site. This is so when I move to 2by4.org I wont be carrying the bloat thats in my current install.
Finally got Connie running Wordpres. My main problem was that I was following this MacZealot’s WordPress Tutorial and it does a great job but I kept ending up with the same error:

“Error establishing a database connection”

I didnt notice that the tutorial was written almost a year ago, visit and the MySql they were using was the version that was available at the time. While I use the latest version. So after RTFM after RTFM and trying out different MySql queries I figured out I just need to upgrade PHP.

Seems that my MySql was the new version 4.1.10a-max, and my PHP was the standard with OSX 10.3 and knew how to communicate to MySql 4.0.20. So had to upgrade my PHP and I wasn’t about to try many random ones, like the one from the Apple site, but those wouldn’t do and glad I didn’t install it blindly like I usually do and read the README. I had to install Mark Liyange’s PHP Package for OSX 10.3 it was a quick and painless upgrade and my WordPress finally worked!

I put WordPress on my laptop so I can do some themes and hacks to my blog and other stuff with out screwing this main site. This is so when I move to 2by4.org I wont be carrying the bloat thats in my current install.




Burning Books

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

Its censorship like this, pharm
sickness that makes me want to go and burn books.

9 thoughts on “Censorship in Kuwait”

  1. Allaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, Archieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    reminds me of my early teens when school confiscated
    any Archie issues for their ‘objectionable’ content….
    It never stopped us from reading them :P (nostalgically)

  2. farinheight 451 :).

    That is just wrong. I mean what is wrong with it. Now is that an american version or the kuwaiti one :).

  3. Its really dumb, I used to read Archie back in middle school and it was never censored we were trading/buying it buy the bundle and not a single black marker.

    It was weird, inside they just marked out the bikini and cleavage too, but the words were still there. Archie trying to figure out which girl to take out, as he was chasing another one. Just goes to show you that guys who censor the stuff can’t read.

    Amy, that was teh american version, be funny to see an Arabic version of Archie, he would be called Adel, Veronica would be Sheikha, Betty: Besma, Jughead something weird like Bu Skander. Actually that would be a cool comic. Pops would be Johnny Rockets..

  4. I had no idea that was the american version. Where on earth did you get that! I think it would be funny to see the arabic version of it.

  5. Bad girls in a Bikini, like bad saints in a Photgraphy magazine……just did a blog about it.
    Someone out there must be VERY bored….. :(

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