Posts Tagged as ‘email’

November 13, 2008

Travelling – The Agony and Ecstasy

My dream
Is to fly
Over de rainbow
So high

No, actually that’s Yves La Rock’s dream (and my bloody nightmare as, in Egypt, they still think that this trick is new and interesting when everyone else stopped playing it six months ago).
My dream is that, one day, I will be able to find a [...]

October 21, 2008

Work/Life Imbalance

In recent postings I have described how I am addicted to nicotine and maybe to alcohol.  But I now realize that there is something else that I am hopelessly addicted to and that’s work.
It just became apparent to me over the last couple of days as I have some friends staying with me and would [...]

October 14, 2008

On Becoming Telephobic

That’s as in ‘fear of talking of the phone’, as taken from the famous BT Commercial:

Unless the date was written on it, I’d never have guessed that this was from 1991 – I woud have thought it the best part of a decade earlier.  It really shows how adverts (and corporate [...]

September 16, 2008

My New Friend – The Nigerian Scam Artist

It was at some point in the mid-Nineties, when my partner, Olda, and I were running a computer games importer in Prague that we got a letter from Nigeria.  We had never had a letter coming to us all the way from Nigeria before and so were rather curious.
Apparently, someone had gotten hold of several [...]