Tag Archives: egypt
Soap Opera
Of course it’s a perfectly natural reaction to think that we aren’t influenced by advertising at all – “we’re all too clever to be suckered into that”, “a complete waste of money”. But such thinking is, of course, complete bollocks. … Continue reading
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My Stupidest Mistake Ever
In yesterday’s posting, I described how I am addicted to Diet Coke/Coke Light/Coke Zero and I am maybe a borderline alcoholic according to some bullshit online quizzes. But all of this pales into insignificance compared to my main addiction. Which is … Continue reading
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Nick 1: Kitchen Door 1
Yesterday I described how the kitchen door managed to lock itself and I ended up throwing a chair at it out of temper and frustration. Today wasn’t such a bad day as yesterday and so I decided to take a … Continue reading
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The Wrath of Nick
Today wasn’t a terribly good day. Yesterday wasn’t very good either. And nor was the day before that. The main cause of this is the fact that I live in Egypt, and things don’t work terribly well here. Things break … Continue reading
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Music and Me (For the Love of House)
Not everyone understands house music It’s a spiritual thing A body thing A soul thing A soul thing Eddie Amador – House Music At the start of 2007, I started ‘the search for the perfect girlfriend’ – an exercise which … Continue reading
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Islamic IT Irony
Well, literally 15 minutes after making that last post (and I do mean literally – there’s nothing that irritates me more than people who use the word literally when they don’t mean literally as in “that curry was literally hotter … Continue reading
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A Bad Workman Blaming His Tools
You may have noticed that in my first posting, the formatting was all screwed up at the bottom. This is not my fault. It is my computer’s. Actually that’s not true. It’s Egypt’s fault. My computer is Latvian by birth. … Continue reading
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