» by ChrisM July 26th, 2008 at 7:17 pm » Comments (0)

I probably won't be posting anything for a little while, so please do feel free to get around to looking at some of the older posts here, or maybe checking ...more »

» by ChrisM July 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="attachment_2284" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Happy Birthday Pippa"][/caption] I hope you manage to get away to Amsterdam soon, and look forward to getting utterly pissed with you meeting up again some time. more »

» by ChrisM July 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm » Comments (0)

... birthdays, it would appear, as today is both Dana's and Natalya K's. Hope you are both having a great time in your respective cities, and that we will get ...more »

» by ChrisM July 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm » Comments (2)

Sorry about the long title post, but I wanted to ensure the relevant factors were all included for clarity. This post will be of interest to anyone who wishes to use ...more »

» by ChrisM July 25th, 2008 at 6:00 pm » Comments (0)

As you may remember from my last mention of Bloggerwave, they were a little behind in keeping up with their payments. They managed to pay $60 of the $70 that ...more »

» by ChrisM July 24th, 2008 at 4:14 am » Comments (0)

Living in a flat (I still find myself using the American term 'apartment' far too often these days) means there are some chores that simply don't ever need to be ...more »

» by ChrisM July 24th, 2008 at 3:31 am » Comments (0)

Eursianet.org had an interesting article early last month on the current mayor (Akim) of Astana. There have been stories about that his family was involved in buying a property from ...more »

» by ChrisM July 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm » Comments (0)

Last night a friend was asking me the difference between a site's Alexa rank, and its Izea Realrank, if it has one. I decided to create a quick post in the ...more »

» by ChrisM July 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm » Comments (0)

I was speaking to a friend last night, asking her how on earth I could try and naturally fit the phrase blemish acne cream into a post on this blog. ...more »

» by ChrisM July 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 am » Comments (0)

Following on from the last post, I have recently got around to re-adding most of my favourite RSS feeds, following the last hard drive failure. So, check these out sometime ...more »

» by ChrisM July 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 am » Comments (0)

So, looking for a new take on life in Kazakhstan? I recently received an e-mail from the person behind the 'A Momentary Relapse of Reason' blog hosted over at Wordpress.com ...more »

» by ChrisM July 23rd, 2008 at 4:36 am » Comments (0)

One thing I have slowly noticed walking round the streets of Astana is the increase in Western style funny t shirts, normally with English phrases. (To be honest, I could ...more »

» by ChrisM July 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 am » Comments (0)

OK this post has a LOT of Flash objects and pictures contained within it, so if you are reading this text from the main page, either click the post title ...more »

» by ChrisM July 20th, 2008 at 6:11 pm » Comments (0)

Back on the 20th July 2006, I wrote the first post (incredibly originally entitled Introduction) for this site. So two years later, this blog has seen 53729 visitors, who have ...more »

» by ChrisM July 20th, 2008 at 7:41 am » Comments (0)

As previously mentioned, this weekend we are camping, returning to the local salt water lake I first visited a couple of years ago, when we first moved to Astana. (Can ...more »