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betting oranges

well well…  as you may know, I was in India last week to do some work.  On my only day as a tourist I was driven down to Agra to see the Taj Mahal.  This is my attempt at a slightly atypical picture of the vast place.  It really is quite staggering - particularly given […]

bureaucracy

colourful india - orange turbans, blue skys, green and yellow taxies, purple saris and red tape…
one of the main reasons i’m in india is to receive a shipment of computers from the uk so that i can commission them before i leave.  they flew out on sunday night to join me, in theory, on tuesday […]

office moving in a style provided by india

I’ve been involved to some degree in two offices moves now.  In the first I pretty much co-ordinated the whole of the IT and telecoms fit out and move.  In the second one I had more of a supporting role.  So this has been the third move - this time around I wasn’t involved in […]

Indian

I’ve been working in my job for just over a month and I’ve already jetted off to Delhi - well actually Noida.  Part of the company if moving offices out here so I’ve come out to help set up various IT bits.  As with Uganda, the culture is not one of health and safety, but […]

Oh boris!

What can you do when the electorate is wrong?
Boris Johnson has won the mayoral election.  A man with virtually no experience, few policies and generally extreme views (as seen by his outspoken rants and polemic in telegraph columns).  I can’t really complain as I didn’t vote (being a Cambridge resident at present I didn’t have […]