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Signs That Your Business Plan Is Not Working
My last job in Britain, before leaving for Kazakhstan would have ended 4 days after I emigrated anyway, but it appears that some of the staff whose roles took over some of our responsibilities are not...
View ArticleKazakh Company Wants To Invest
Just caught this report over on the BBC World news channel. Apparently the American government and GreenPeace (for differring reasons) is not very happy at the prospect of KazAtomProm (the Kazakh...
View ArticleMalaysian Bloggers Beware
I have linked to quite a few Malaysian bloggers in the past, and some have linked back, so when I discovered how the government over there is once more cracking down on them, using anti-terrorism...
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How Not To Handle Customers
Just prior to my hard drive crashing, I came across a post on an Irish blog, that really caught my attention. The main reason is that I will be flying out to Amsterdam, then Britain, then a little...
View ArticleCSI Plotline Prediction
I enjoy watching NCIS, CSI, and Waking The Dead (the first two via some Swiss satellite channels, with the 2nd audio channel selected to retain the original English sound track, and the 3rd program...
View ArticleCIA And The Vatican Exposed!
Wikipedia Scanner – doing the leg work most of us can’t be bothered to go through… As you will know if you are at all interested in Wikipedia, for most pages, anyone can edit them. This of course leads...
View Article(Free) WordPress Blogs Are Offline In Turkey
WordPress.com has been officially blocked in Turkey! Although that does not effect this blog, anyone who uses the WordPress server to host their own free blog will find that Turkish people are unable...
View ArticleBeijing Promises To Crack Down On Hackers
Reading between the lines of an article, it would appear that there have been rumours of government involvement in China, with hackers’ attempts to infiltrate German Government computer networks, in a...
View ArticleTrust Us – This IS Best For You…
The technology is amazing. The possibilities can be mind blowing. There is no need to worry. Only two of the above unfortunately apply in the real world. If we could have complete faith that there were...
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No Sleep – Average Faces And Gigantic Firewalls
OK it is 6.55am over here, and I am still up, hoping to catch another WorldWide Wednesday opportunity over at PayPerPost, as I managed to last week (see the Argus post). If it does not appear soon, I...
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Spring Clean Of Bookmarks…
OK, this is one of the last posts I will make whilst in Kazakhstan, so I intend to use it to catch up with a few articles, videos and sites I have been meaning to post about in the last few weeks....
View ArticlePssst, looking for some cholesterol?
Just finished reading an interesting article over at the BBC site. It reports that Glasgow council are considering various ways to improve the health of their school’s pupils. Whilst their aims are...
View ArticleFrance Gets Innovative
Whilst I am against the punishing of Peer To Peer users in general, it is interesting to see that France has tried a (slightly) different route in persuading people to stay legal when it comes to...
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Facebook Capitulates To Public Pressure
I have recently being using Facebook more than in the past, and noticed a few new groups that were formed to try and influence Facebook’s policies on a few matters – members’ browsing & purchasing...
View ArticleWeird
Just noticed that since changing ISPs, FireFox’s search bar now defaults to the Kazakh Google domain (google.kz) for searches. Any other Kazakh readers out there find this behaviour with FF? Hmmm,...
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Saving People From RSI?
I remember seeing a segment on a TV program back in the 90s that showed a Japanese research scientist playing space invaders without touching anything. He basically thought Left/Right/Fire, and a...
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That Really Happened?
This sort of post is perfect for the Aware or Conspiracy Nut category here at ChrisMerriman.com. Each of the following actually occurred, and are well documented. However, if your friend just bought up...
View ArticleGrote Broer Is Watching You!
This is definitely one of those cases where it is difficult to tell whether unfolding events are heading towards a better crime-free world, or simply Big Brother worming its way even further into our...
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And Why Not?
The brilliant UK govt. has released information on plans to create a huge database of phone calls and e-mails based in Britain. Quite aside from the civil liberties/govt. intelligence agencies powers...
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Obama AND McCain Not Eligible?
I was speaking with a friend yesterday about the American presidential election, having just finished watching Michael Moore’s Slacker Uprising. I tend not to dip into politics to often on this site,...
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