Blue Ocean

This is a view from the top of the massif where the mine will be, looking down on the smelter and power plant (under construction). You can ...

Brisbane, Australia If I step off another curb into oncoming traffic, I will deserve what I get. I have been in Brisbane a couple of weeks,...

I logged a partial victory today, mostly due to external forces, but it’s going in the V column anyway. An interesting cocktail – it has...

Here in Balhaf, the internet connection speeds at home and office are equally slow. I used to think it was due to our remote location, but...

There is a small fishing village not far from Balhaf where one of our vendors has set up a recycling facility. I go there from time to time,...

Copacabana Beach (left) and Ipenema Beach Easter in Brasil, 2009

[photos shown above, not in very good order: 1] Castle of St George in Lisbon; 2] the 3 km winding pathway leading down from the Moors castl...

I have a four hour layover at Fuimicino Airport in Rome enroute from Balhaf, Yemen to Austin. During the next several days I will partake of...

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Gas arrives at the Marine Flare from Marib, 320 km away jetty in background, significantly complete, as is Tank1 (the closest one) ...

The winter honeymoon weather is over. Springtime in Yemen has arrived early with hot dry winds carrying the desert dust fine as talcum powde...

There is some concession to Christmas on the project, although the significance of Bethlehem is downplayed. Still, the management sprung fo...

There is a literary device used by Rudyard Kipling (eg, Gunga Din ), and others, that I am going to try here. It is a prefatory whimsy, whic...

Social Responsibility: I first ran into it while working for Enron. For lack of a better place to put it, organizational chartographers alwa...