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• Price for Internet Halves

  Or speeds double, depending on how you look at it. A few months ago, KazakhTeleCom started offering faster Internet in Kazakhstan, doubling its speeds. I am told by my friends who are better at computers than I am that there is no reason why we couldn’t have had faster Internet a long time ago, but […]

  4/27/10 • (Comments Off on Price for Internet Halves)

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  Kazakhstan Loves Opera

  According to Reuters, Opera 10 is the most popular browser in Kazakhstan with 32% of the market share. An even more significant way of looking at it is that in January Kazakhstan, with an estimated 2,300,000 Internet users (less than one-tenth of users in China or the US) was one of the top ten countries […]

  4/14/10 • (3)

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  Kazakhstan Hosting Alien Embassy! Not!

  Is Kazakhstan building an embassy for aliens? If they do, will there be separate sections for the greys, the reptilians, the greens and the bugs? Why would they bother since everyone knows that there is already a UFO base in the Caspian Sea?

  4/11/10 • (4)

• New Media in Kazakhstan

  KplusTVeng is a news show broadcast on Youtube. It isn’t clear who is behind it, but it’s very professional and the first time I’ve heard of locals using new media in such a high quality format. I’m sure the rumors will start about who is funding it and in what way it is biased. But […]

  3/25/10 • (3)

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  Learn How to Drive Like a Kazakh

  Kazakhstan has its first video game! Astana Racer is a racing game set in Astana and apparently features a variety of cars from the Mitsubishi Lancer to a BMW. You can race all over the city from the Left Bank to the old center of town. The game is for sale at Meloman stores and […]

  12/28/09 • (3)

• You’re so Funny. Not.

  Ok, what was the point of this piece: You Get One Piece of Carrion Luggage? It takes a picture of Kazakhs hunting with hawks and makes a really stupid joke. So what’s the best domestic airline for getting from place to place [in Kazakshtan -KZBlog]? There is one small one that’s kind of unusual. They […]

  12/16/09 • (Comments Off on You’re so Funny. Not.)

• Blogspot?

  Usually when people in Kazakhstan write that a website is not working and possibly being blocked, I accuse them of paranoia. I don’t have Kazakh Telecom Interent service so I have yet to meet a blocked site. However, my own paranoia is growing over sites on the blogger/blogspot service. For a few days now I […]

  12/14/09 • (4)

• Foreign Fonts

  I’m working on a new T-shirt idea as a Christmas present for a friend–we’ll see if I can pull it off well enough to try to sell to the general public–and was looking for cool Cyrillic fonts. I thought my discoveries might be useful. Dafont has some awesome fonts in Russian Orthodox Church style, propaganda […]

  11/29/09 • (3)

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  Some Recent Publicity

  KZBlog was featured twice this past week. The first one I knew nothing about, but I was selected as the weekly pancake at at Uncle Shal’s Pancakes. The word Blin in Russian translates literally as pancake, but figuratively it means something like “darn”, a mild swear word. This site however uses it to refer to […]

  6/25/09 • (Comments Off on Some Recent Publicity)

• Interview with a Kazakh Domain Trader

  In March, I wrote about an interesting factoid that I stumbled across: only 6% of registered websites on the .kz domain actually have content. The rest appear to be held by domain traders who hope to sell them to interested parties. For fun, I had tried to guess what .kz domains might be unoccupied and […]

  7/30/08 • (Comments Off on Interview with a Kazakh Domain Trader)