Transparency International Publishes a guide called “Corruption Perceptions Index” every year. They rank countries based on different surveys to find out how good is a country for business and also corruption.

Bahrain Came out on the top at the 46th place with a score of 5 while jordan and oman shared the 53rd place.

With the amount of Red Tape involved in every sector here i am not surprised by the result. To go open a business, you are faced with red tape, to go to get some government document you dont get it until you go through a million hoops.
What do the numbers mean and what is the score… Click Here

Corruption perception Index 2007.. Click Here.

With the recent shuffling of ministers and stuff, i hope Condition of Bahrain improves and in next year report we are way down in the list.

/Edit : Mahmood’s Den beat me to it, Click here to go to mahmood’s post about CPI.

I hope everyone has read the awesome series of articles over at ammaro.com blog on manaing money, if you havent then stop doing what you are and go read them. They can be found on the right hand side on ammaro.com.

 Now, what this post is about its about software, software that will help you in managing money, budgeting, tracking etc etc. The most popular software for managing money are either Quicken or Microsoft Money. They both cost money ironically so here i present you with a link that will give you reviews for lot of web 2.0 ways of managing money anywhere you have access to internet you can play with your money.

Click Here to Visit the A to Z list of Online Money Management

Have fun and when you save lot of money, send some to ammaro for his series of articles

I didnt post much here recently (its not like i post a thousands time anyways) but then just recently i got admitted into hospital underwent lot of tests and crap in the end i leave with

See that thing next to the ipod, yeah now on top of carrying my blackberry, my phone, wallet and other stuff i have to carry an inhaler for no matter how long it takes to get rid of the condition.

I am told that when you get this it stays with you forever.
Son of a pollution..

Yesterday some websites sarted selling the iphone unlock tool which was developed by Iphonesimfree for as much as 99 a pop. What would have had happened if you just waited a day or two more before shelling out the cash?

You get a free iphone unlock tool, compliments of the Iphone Dev team, which has been on iphone ass since the day it came out hacking firmware, decrypting keys blah blah and finally they released the unlock tool.

More Info <Click Me>

I have been deciding if i need to get an iphone or not. It does look sexy, is there anyone in bahrain who has one that i can get my greasy fingers on to see if i like it or not?

YaY!! on my way to work i picked up a brand new phone today. Sadly the last imate kjam i had was a piece of Shit, the screen broke while it was in my pocket and i was go karting.

So i picked myself up a new nokia E61i, and man is this thing a beast or what. Pushmail, full keyboard, 3g, wifi, VOIP and whole lot of other stuff.

Words dont do justice to this phone so feast your eyes on this!!

I don’t know how watching bourne identity will give you an idea like this but take a look.

I present to you my new Toy.

It’s sweet, its sexy and the speed goes upto 80. I got it last night.

During the initial test i found out that this little machine can cause serious jealousy in the eyes of your neighbor spoiled little 9 years old Brat. It can cause your loved ones and not-so-loved ones to loose sleep and lot of other things that i didnt notice due to the lack of time and sleep.

So today was the bloggers meeting, as much as i wanted to attend it i couldnt. It would be cool to meet the rest of the bloggers from bahrain but the time is a little bit hard to accomodate.

 As a suggestion maybe we can push the meeting for little later, i get a half day on saturday and dont finish work till 3pm, so it would be a cool idea to gather support and see if there are other people who would like to have it little later then usual 10 or 11.

 What do other people think? Is it worth a shot to try to see if we can have it some other time??