Monday, April 30, 2007

Off yet again

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I'm off to Bahrain for two days to write my accounting exam and meet with some clients. These past few months I've just been Mr. Je...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Getting a cold

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Arrrrgh, I have to leave tomorrow for Bahrain for meetings and to write an exam and I'm coming down with a cold. I hate colds. I get c...
Friday, April 27, 2007

Okay, I'm back

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Back from my trip to the Dead Sea. It was for a 3-day seminar but it was still great to go somewhere different, and the resort where the se...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Off on business

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I'm away on business in Jordan until Friday. Plan to have a nice long float in the Dead Sea too. As an aside: T-shirts that have ...
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Another rant about the media

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Well halfway across the world and however many days after the Virginia shooting I still can't turn on the TV news without seeing big rep...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

On fixing things and media attention

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One of the nice things about living in a compound is that there are dedicated maintenance guys whose job is to fix whatever goes wrong in yo...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The classics never die.

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Sometimes the classics never die. Remember hearing about, when phones were first coming into widespread use, how people were worried that i...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

I have joined the 21st century.

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Okay I have now made the technological jump and got myself hooked up on Skype. It took me a while to get it figured out but my friend Knut ...
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Friday, April 13, 2007

A trip to the nightclub

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I rarely go to nightclubs, it just isn't my thing. Even in high school, university, my 20s, I just was not big on going to clubs. I...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

The job

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One thing you might have noticed about my blog is that I don’t discuss work. Well guess what – it is because I’m never going to blog about ...
Sunday, April 08, 2007

Oh boy - the dentist!

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So today was my dental appointment to get my teeth cleaned. Like most people I do not look forward to dental visits but I suppose it is a n...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Kayaking

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Today was a beautiful day out, sunny and not too dusty, so I figured I'd follow up on an invitation to an afternoon lunch to welcome Mar...
Friday, April 06, 2007

An Important Public Service Announcement

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Fridays are a very quiet day here. In case you didn't know, in Qatar the weekend is Friday and Saturday, which makes it odd because the...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Musings on the price of soda (and other things around here)

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Qatar can be a nice place to live in that, if you take the time to look around, you can find really good prices for things. I mean really c...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

More Wikifun

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I must admit Wikipedia is definately one of my favourite sites. Sometimes I just Wikisurf around the various links, and I figure I use it a...

Islamic Finance

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As a Chartered Accountant I have to make sure that I take courses to maintain a certain number of professional development (PD) hours every ...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

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So my good deed for this week is helping a Lebanese gentleman go through the online forms for applying for residence in New Zealand. Why Ne...
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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Musings on losing weight

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For the last little while I've been on a diet. The telltale sign that I needed to lose weight was that my Bermuda Shorts, which fit me ...

Time for a change

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I started wondering why I don't update my blog as often as I should. On average I'm posting to it maybe every four days or so, some...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

The World Tour Part 6 - Last day of TAM

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TAM – the finale The last day of TAM is always for paper presentations. Months before the meeting JREF asked people to submit papers, and a...
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