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May 15 2012

Never around here (Guns & …

Category: Kazakhstan,Pictures,Tweets — ChrisM @ 11:19 am

Never around here (Guns & Roses 🙂 , Ramstore & Astana Tower) in the daytime, nighttime too dark for this camera – http://t.co/DRdoNFW4

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May 07 2012

Didn’t manage to get them all …

Category: Kazakhstan,Pictures,Tweets — ChrisM @ 1:46 pm

Didn’t manage to get them all in frame, but sincerely impressed/surprised to see about 10 guys actually working! http://t.co/iGybuzWk

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Apr 24 2012

At Brioche (Prospekt Pobyeda) …

Category: Anna's Photos,Eating Out,Pictures,Tweets — ChrisM @ 11:45 am

At Brioche (Prospekt Pobyeda) with Irina, Anna & Tim. Delicious cakes, and no nuts in mine! Yum yum… http://t.co/0oGE2uMo

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Mar 24 2012

Goalkeeper.Local band posing f…

Category: Eating Out,Friends,Pictures,Tweets — ChrisM @ 9:17 pm

Goalkeeper.Local band posing for photos, no amplification involved & then Arsenal fans – http://t.co/M6hpQBoJ http://t.co/VcXPo1p0

Tags: Arsenal, Electric guitars, Instrument amplifiers, Lead guitarists, Music hardware, Tweets, twitter

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Mar 01 2012

Car sorted now,taken it4 a dri…

Category: Kazakh Driving,Tweets — ChrisM @ 12:41 pm

Car sorted now,taken it4 a drive.(Battery was flat,insurance had run out,needed2 change2 winter tyres,was running on fumes.)Ta2 every1 4help

Tags: Car, Flat Battery, Ice, insurance, Snow, Tweets, twitter, Winter Tyres

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Feb 29 2012

Need to vent…

Category: Kazakhstan,Tweets — ChrisM @ 8:32 am

Things that have severely tested my patience this morning…

Un-necessary (I think, could be wrong) PPPoE connections configured badly (certain of this point) by Megaline staff that visited in-laws whilst I was in UK. An already flaky connection is further ham-stringed by extra hoops to jump through/fall over.

Posterous (my main media hosting service) blocked here in Kazakhstan. Sorry, I’m assuming this is yet another technical error. Will try and check which elite ex-government member (opposition figures with a clean past are thin on the ground here) now uses the service. Bypassed with Opera, and once I have the url for the image itself, no problem, as posterous use Amazon’s cloud service and amazon.com isn’t yet blocked/experiencing male cow faeces technical issues.

Google services still blocked in some cases. Using translate link from search results blocked for example. (Using Google Chrome’s auto-translate feature once on a page still working. I’ll check if Google Docs is also still fubarred by incompetence/over-eager censoring later.

note: Kazakhstan is great, and certainly heading towards one of the top 50 countries to live in, globally. The government is superb, makes the right decisions for the right reasons, and no one should ever protest. Any “news” to the contrary is false. Always.

Tags: Amazon, Google, Google Chrome, Kazakhstan, main media hosting service, Online social networking, Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet, Posterous, search results, Social Media, United Kingdom, Web 2.0

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Dec 01 2011

Anna – December 2010

Category: Anna's Photos,Dasha&Kittens,Pictures — ChrisM @ 5:25 am

Getting slack at catching up with Anna’s photos again, and I realise that Tim hasn’t appeared much recently. These photos seems to cover pigtails again, snowcraft, a messy mouth & city building. We seem to be missing anything from Christmas time, I’ll have a search around tomorrow.

: Off To Build Snow Castles?

: Single Architect City

: Insert Your Own Pussycat Dolls Pun Here

: Cats Craving Kasha

: Pigtails Return!

: Still Waking Up After Breakfast

: Attack Of The 50ft Woman (Builder)

: Bucket Of Snow

: Karaoke Time

: Partially Made Sorbets In Chubary

: Parasol For Dolly

: Frozen Flowers

arrrrgh, didn’t click save after updating all the photo titles. Need some sleep, will try and work on this tomorrow.

Make that a week later.

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Nov 23 2011

Anna – November 2010

Category: Anna's Photos,Dasha&Kittens,Pictures — ChrisM @ 5:37 am

Almost at the end of last year’s photos of Anna, these pictures reside in the following folders on our hard drive…

Winter Is Coming, Chubary Living Room, Pigtails, Big Hat And Monitor Talking, Big Hat Again, Two Babas, Chubary, Painting and Eating In Chubary

: Trying Out Pigtails

: Give. Me. The. Camera. Now!

: Kara & Muska In Our Living Room

: Biiiiiiiig Smile!

: Tea Time With Pig Tails

: And Now To The Left…

: The Artist At Work

: Hard At Work

: Anna And Baba Looking At Anna’s Book

: Pretty In Purple

: Big Hugs For The (Toy) Dog

: Distracted By DVDs Probably!

: Anna Between Two Babas

: Cheeky

: Do I Look Cuter? Can I Get Away With More Now?

: Nom Nom Pear

: Beautiful Smile, Naked Feet!

: Anna In The Chubary Living Room

: Hiding… If I Can’t See You, You Can’t See Me!

: Daddy’s Hat Looks Better On Me

: Anna In Chubary

: Marching To Her Own Tune

: Too Cold To Smile!

: Monkey & Teddy Snuggle Together On Anna’s Chair

: Anna Dressed For Winter In Chubary

: Moi, Pose For The Camera? Ce n’est pas possible!

: Anna & Baba Chatting

: Anna’s Umbrella

: A Quick Snack At Her Table

: Trapping Her Shadow Against The Wall, No Peter Pan Style Trickery Here!

: Not Quite Awake Yet

: A Little To The Left Please

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Nov 14 2011

Anna – August 2010

Category: Anna's Photos,Friends,Kazakhstan,Pictures — ChrisM @ 6:43 am

This month has pictures from our trip to Aunty Sveta’s home city (Petropavlovsk) and the airport, a couple more celebratory meals and a look at Astana from the river for once…