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Just reading thru the Oz Govt travel guidelines for Saudi. Lots on terrorism risks, but no mention of the clear # 1 risk - driving is CRAZY |
@wickhamster Liam's getting new plaster tomorrow to replace his temp cast. He's enjoying the attention now! |
Had to pick up youngest lad from school today and on to hospital; turns out he'd fractured his arm with a fall at PE |
I'm a little surprised, but UAE web filtering seems slightly more aggressive than we have in Saudi Arabia. |
Our suitcases are full, so we're ready to leave Dubai. Hopefully family Saudi visas are all finished tomorrow so we can go home to Riyadh. |
We've finished the weekend with a full-on day at Wild Wadi, Dubai's water theme park. Early bed for all! |
Our family has been trying out more of the restaurants in Riyadh. Furusato was lovely, although we'll book next time to have teppanyaki |
Our family is off to Dubai for a week, prob leaving Sat night. Need to leave Saudi for my wife & boys to apply for new Saudi visas |
Get voting everyone - the rest of the world is waiting impatiently for the results :) |
When I arrived in KSA the $A was peaking at US$0.98. In less than 4mths it is now US$0.61 ... umm yes of course, I expected that |
This week has been a sequence of just awe-inspiringly random project management. Wow. |
@Beaker Haven't heard the NPR piece but it sounds v consistent with some financial articles I've read by Donald MacKenzie at www.lrb.co.uk |
@mckeay DLP dead?! Not a top priority for many customers, sure. I like @riskybusiness comments that it has some value, esp. accidental discl |
@MaltaPa I'll stick with stovepot coffee for now; if I got a home espresso machine I'd be buzzing 24x7 |
@mckeay I'm much less worried about financial impact of *any* sort of fraud, compared to the risks of further bank or countries defaulting |
@mckeay World Bank & IMF have been less important recently because there's been so much easy credit available :) |
@mckeay World Bank have plenty of interesting data, but still v hard to pull off major fraud - extremely unlikely. |
@mckeay Don't panic; World Bank compromise can't have significant financial impact - for western economies in any case. |
Wimax should be rolled out in this area in the next few months, inshallah ... so we may get better speed yet |
So far our HSPDA internet link seems slightly better than the single shared ADSL for the compound, altho w/e congestion is still heavy. |
