Thursday, September 17, 2009

Vacation time

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Okay everyone, Ramadan is almost at an end. Thanks to the 3-day holiday to celebrate Eid I've turned it into a two week vacation. This...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Islam & Marriage

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Everyone knows that under Islam a man can have up to four wives. Not surprisingly, most don't. As one Bahraini taxi driver told me, ...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Annoying things

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Since I'm in an annoyed mood this afternoon (long story that I am not going to get into) let's entertain the internet world at large...
Monday, September 07, 2009

That ol' H1N1

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A few days ago the Health Ministry, in an article regarding whether schools should be closed, noted that the number of cases of H1N1 in Qata...
Saturday, September 05, 2009

Switzerland

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Okay, I'm back safe and sound. I hate Switzerland -- in an envious way. It's green, pretty, clean, nice scenery, excellent Metro an...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Switzerland

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Off on a business trip to attend a seminar at the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) in Basel Switzerland. The FSI is an educational centr...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Mementos

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At home I have a couple of shelves where I keep little mementos, photos, and other items that I picked up during my travels or are given to ...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Warhol

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Spent a bit of time on the weekend rereading what I consider one of the most bizarre, yet interesting, books -- The Philosophy of Andy Warho...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Ramadan

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The holy month of Ramadan has started. For the next 28 or 29 days Muslims will be fasting from sunrise to sunset, and all restaurants in Qa...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Karis's Birthday!

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It is my niece Karis's birthday today! Let's do a little photomontage to celebrate from when I was last in Canada. There she is! A...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Weighing evidence

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There's been a bit of press coverage recently in the US about people who people deridedly call "Birthers". These are people w...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Traditional food

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In the last month or so I have had the opportunity to try a number of traditional cuisines. It was not that I was hunting them out per se i...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

H1N1 update

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Did I say there are 43 cases? Sorry about that, the number is now 350 . Geez, that's increased a little bit since last week . . .
Sunday, August 09, 2009

H1N1 update

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The latest H1N1 update is 43 confirmed cases and, sadly, the death of one Qatari man from the flu (though he may have caught the flu in the ...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Back from Paris

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Okay, I'm back! Had a great time in France. The first three nights I was staying at that Chateau outside of Paris, sharing a room with ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Dat darn cat again

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Here is the cat I was telling you about a few posts ago, Yuki. Watch out, beneath the cute exterior is a being of deceptive EVIL (like all ...
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Vacation time

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I'm leaving this weekend on my next trip. My friend David is finally tying the knot so I'm off to the wedding... ... in Paris!! Yep...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Health update

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Sorry for not posting much recently. Had a flareup of my repetitive strain injury recently so I have been laying off the computer. Bloody...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Borders - part 2

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Okay so I spoke to my Qatari friends about the border dispute, but in the meantime an anonymous commenter also left a lengthy discussion of ...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Borders

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One of the downsides of when I lived in Bermuda is that you were in this small island nation and there was nowhere else to go. There were n...
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