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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Thai Airport (Lack Of) Security

» by ChrisM November 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm » Comments (0)

The People's alliance for Democracy (now there is an inappropriate name, given that the group does not want democratic elections to occur!), are still occupying a couple of airports (Suvarnabhumi ...more »

Entrecard And Firefox Issues?

» by ChrisM November 28th, 2008 at 11:05 pm » Comments (2)

To any fellow droppers who pop in, can I ask you to leave a comment if you are currently encountering problems with viewing the entrecard on the right? Recently, I've ...more »

Monitoring Changes

» by ChrisM November 27th, 2008 at 7:28 pm » Comments (0)

Something that I hadn't really considered until recently (for obvious reasons) was how pregnant woman can be a lot more sensitive to everyday events than the rest of us. It ...more »

Back In Britain

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

OK, so we have actually been back in Britain for five days now, but sorting out things and settling down is bound to take a while. In the mean time, ...more »

Alex Is 21 Again?

» by ChrisM November 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 am » Comments (2)

Given that we were in the same year at school, it isn't too hard to guess her age, but anyway, here's hoping she is having a superb day... more »

Happy Birthday Dad, Babushka & StarGazer

» by ChrisM November 17th, 2008 at 2:29 am » Comments (1)

As you may have guessed from this post's title, today is my Dad's birthday. Everyone here in Kazakhstan hopes you have a great day... The title should also give you a ...more »

Cracked Up

» by ChrisM November 14th, 2008 at 2:02 am » Comments (0)

Whilst clearing out the rubbish we really didn't need in the flat (three bin liners so far!), I came across an old contact lenses case, that had a dried out ...more »

Kazakh Government Catching On?

» by ChrisM November 14th, 2008 at 1:56 am » Comments (2)

The last time I mentioned Borat (the fictional character or the film itself) was back on the August 15th 2007, which is reasonably surprising for a blog that is often ...more »

Moving Around

» by ChrisM November 14th, 2008 at 1:28 am » Comments (0)

Irina has been working hard all day on packing together the items that we will be storing at the inlaws. I have written a guide to the flat for Dave, ...more »

Sligo

» by ChrisM November 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am » Comments (1)

I have mentioned this pub a couple of times here on the blog, but have yet to post photos or pass comment on the food. Well, lets start at the beginning. ...more »

Awww. Cute. Or Not?

» by ChrisM November 11th, 2008 at 2:33 am » Comments (0)

Saw this one recently over at FailBlog, and I wanted to post it here. Although the comments go into some details on this method of postage being accepted as the norm ...more »

Miss Lily, Joe And Mustang Sally

» by ChrisM November 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am » Comments (8)

As previously promise, here we have some slightly better quality photos of Miss Lily (which reminds me, I need to edit the previous posts, as there is only two L's ...more »

House of Lords Do Something Well!

» by ChrisM November 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm » Comments (0)

Long term readers will have realised that I am not exactly a staunch Monarchist (though not necessarily a Republican - I'm happy to have a Royal family for tourist purposes, ...more »

Blindly Following

» by ChrisM November 10th, 2008 at 2:09 pm » Comments (0)

Although the BBC article's headline appears to be a tiny bit over-sensationalised, the very idea of a pilot a) suffering a stroke whilst at the controls and surviving, and b) ...more »

When Does 4 Equal 3.5?

» by ChrisM November 10th, 2008 at 5:19 am » Comments (2)

I was reading up on Windows Vista the other day (Ira's laptop had it installed when we bought it last year), and I was surprised to find out that even ...more »