Wednesday, May 30, 2007

I'm British - and a moron!

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Hey, my camera wasn’t stolen after all! I found it! I was driving around then suddenly remembered that back when I put my camera in the glo...
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Blimey! I'm British!

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I got the call from the embassy and picked up my UK Passport today. I'm officially British! (and Canadian too of course) Now when I land...
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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Grrrrrr, my camera was stolen!

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Well what was becoming a really nice weekend had a major letdown on the realization that my camera had been stolen. Even worse - I have no ...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

A tale about currency in the Gulf

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Recently Kuwait has decided to remove its currency from its US dollar peg, instead tying it to a basket of currencies. It was a fairly big ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

A trip to the British Embassy

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For those of you who didn’t know I’m actually half-British. Dad was from Belfast while my Mom was from Winnipeg. This entitles me to Briti...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007

A Day in the Life

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After sending that last e-album about Jordan I received a few emails noting that I must be having such an exciting time living in the Middle...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

DVDs, so what have I got

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For those of you who know me I'm not a huge fan of movies. I'll go see one occasionally but it usually has to be one that I really ...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Critical Thinking - Nigerian Scams

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Okay, I’m sure we’ve all heard about Nigerian email scams or 419 scams as they are also called. You get an email from someone you don’t kno...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

An experience with the locals

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So Friday I went out with the Qatar Natural History Group for a cruise in a dhow to celebrate the end of the season. Around 50 of us boarde...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

I'm ready for the Weekend!

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Well last night I started a new Arabic course. It has been around 8 months since I took Arabic, and I was really starting to lose what litt...
Monday, May 07, 2007

Critical thinking news - beware of fake countries!

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Just wanted to highlight an amusing report from Australia about a pair of con-men who formed a fake bank from their fake country and starte...
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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Hey, I've been here a year!

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I just realized that it has been a year (since May 1) that I've been in Qatar. So to celebrate . . . My apartment was fumigated! (Whoo...
Thursday, May 03, 2007

Expensive hotels: R-I-P-O-F-F

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In my last two business trips (Jordan & Bahrain) I had the privilege of staying in some pretty nice 5-star hotels. Not something that I...
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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...