Author Archives: thomo the lost

Saudi Blogger is Released

28 April 2008 – 9:19

The Arab News reported in a piece called “Blogger Case Exaggerated: Prince Ahmed” that Saudi blogger, Fouad Al-Farhan’s case had been exaggerated by the press.
“The issue (of Al-Farhan) was not that important as it represented the mistake committed by a person on himself. A man who commits a mistake should bear its result,” the Saudi [...]

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Thomo Misses Out On Knighthood

24 April 2008 – 13:45

Internationally known traveller Thomo the Lost appears to have missed out on joining a prestigious British order of knights.
There was some speculation earlier this year that Thomo was in with a chance for an appointment as a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. This particular chivalric order is well known because [...]

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100,000 Hits

22 April 2008 – 20:04

It slipped past a week ago and I missed it but up to now, Thomo’s Hole has had 102,647 hits. That is since January 2007 so I am quite pleased with the result. 18,274 Unique visitors for 102,647 hits (and that does not count me making changes or the robots). That also means that folks [...]

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Eight Year Old Girl’s Divorce Is Finalised

18 April 2008 – 6:59

In what can only be described as a rare touch of common-sense and good news, the еight-year-old I mentioned on the 14th, Nujood Ali, has had her divorce from her 30 year old husband finalised by the court. An anonymous donor paid about US $250 to her husband to divorce her.
Unfortunately, there are many other [...]

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Yemeni Parliament Sets No Minimum Age For Marriage

14 April 2008 – 14:42

I was reading the Arab News this morning and there was an article in it about an 8 year old Yemeni girl who had taken her father and her 30 year old husband to court seeking protection from abuse. According to the Arab News whenever she wanted to go outside and play with her friends, [...]

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Life

13 April 2008 – 14:39

Sigh. I used to have one. Work has been so unbelievably busy at the current time that about all I have had time to do is post this.
Still, I have some reorganisation of the static pages of Thomo’s Hole underway to make them easier to access - more about this soon, I promise. Plus a [...]

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Al-Huraisi Retrial to Begin Next Tuesday

4 April 2008 – 0:01

It has been a while since I have written about those evil buffoons here in Saudi Arabia, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (or as I prefer to think of them, the Ministry of Licentiousness and Lasciviousness - the C-Men). However, they have been in the news here again.
I [...]

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Nuisance Value

2 April 2008 – 22:17

I get to see a lot of stupid chain letters (or rather chain emails) and I also get to see my far share of hoax letters. At least two of my friends now check with me before blindly sending on those warnings of dire things happening to your PC that Norton and Microsoft are powerless [...]

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Thomo’s Quiet

26 March 2008 – 15:05

It has been very hectic at work for the last couple of weeks, so much so that I am about a week or two behind in emails (hi mum) and about two weeks behind in blog posts and about a month behind in my private reading, research and writing.
Hopefully I will get some time over [...]

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Airport Security? Cods!

14 March 2008 – 10:36

I’ve been travelling. I left Saudi Arabia on Sunday night and flew to Dubai, Bangkok, Sydney, then back to Bangkok and now I am sitting in Dubai prior to flying back to Saudi Arabia. So, that is five days, two airlines and four airports, twice over. The flights were Emirates (VERY nice airline) from Saudi [...]

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