Saturday, October 25, 2008

Finance and water

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Geez has it been two weeks since my last update?? Sorry about that folks. Just a quick bit on the Global Financial Crisis. I admit I do hav...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Qataris

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Although I do not interact with Qataris too often I have been fortunate enough to get to know two Qataris who work in my office as graduate ...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

Eid

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So right now I am in the middle of the Eid holiday, celebrating the end of Ramadan. We get three days off of work so combine that with the ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Picture frame

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In a similar theme to the "7 Up" posts I did earlier I got really interesting gift -- a digital photo frame. One of those picture...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Comprendez-vous francais?

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During Ramadan pretty much every restaurant is closed until evening, which means I've been eating lunch at the office a lot. Thankfully...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

7 Up -- part 2

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28: Location -- Vancouver, British Columbia After finishing my degree in chemistry I went to the University of British Columbia to do a year...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Seven Up!

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For the last couple of weeks the "classic movies" have been the Up Documentaries by Michael Apted. In 1963 of the group from the ...
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Cell phone update

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Well what do you know my mobile phone works after all! I tried charging it up again and everything worked fine. Motorola rules! Except now...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Saudi cleric wants death for astrologers

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So as you are aware there is a lot of financial turmoil in the markets now, what with many investment banks, as well as one of the largest i...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Happy Birthday Mark!

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My brother Mark turns something like 5 billion tomorrow. After reading about my recent injuries with the knee, hands etc he informed me tha...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

More random updates

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Well, the phone still doesn't work. I guess I couldn't have expected it to after sitting on the bottom of the pool for about 20 min...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

A crummy day.

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Well yesterday turned out to be a fairly crappy day. You know, one of those days when you just would have been better off staying in bed. F...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

More random bits

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Well the Olympics are over but it looks like a least one athlete has been reading my blog. Here I was saying that Taekwondo was kind of dul...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Birthday wishes

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My niece's birthday was yesterday (at least it was yesterday my time, because she lives 11 time zones west of here it shouldn't be y...

More on Olympics

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Apparently Canada has in the last four or five days acquired a nice haul of medals, which should at least allay fears that we were not going...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Canada and the Olympics

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So it is day number eight of the Olympics and I woke up this morning to see that Canada still had zero medals. [Update: by this afternoon we...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Coinage

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Coming back from my vacation I had a bit of coinage with me from the various countries that I've visited and immediately put it in my ...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008

I'm back

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Okay -- I'm back! Where have I been? On vacation in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and even a day trip to Vienna. For those of you on m...
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Oman

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So I just got back from a five-day trip to Oman. It was a business trip that was only going to take two days but I loved my visit to Oman l...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Travel, parties and Turkish soccer

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Got back from a business trip in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday night. Was there for three days: one day into Abu Dhabi, two days in ...