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Need for Failure Analysis in India and
the Middle East

Need for Failure Analysis in India and
the Middle East 07/31/2004 02:16 AM
In countries, such as India and the Middle-East most Oil and Petrochemical Refineries, Chemical Plants and other Industrial plants are commissioned with foreign collaboration with most equipment and vessels imported from other countries. Information regarding the material of construction and component design is often a well-guarded secret. Failures are costing Indian and Middle-East plants and manufacturing units billions of dollars a year and are draining the productivity potential of the respective nations. [PRWEB Jul 31, 2004]

iPod: Doomed To Failure?

iPod: Doomed To Failure? 08/02/2004 01:32 PM

Mystro a TiVo like service in testing by
AOL doomed for failure!

Mystro a TiVo like service in testing by
AOL doomed for failure! 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
AOL Time Warner is testing a service for it's subscribers that will allow a TiVo rip-off like interface which allows...

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mid-East press
appalled by siege

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Mid-East press
appalled by siege 09/05/2004 05:08 PM
an interesting round-up .. permeate .. page

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3628836.stm
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UN slams Mid-East peace failure

UN slams Mid-East peace failure 08/11/2004 11:12 PM
A senior United Nations official criticises Israel and the Palestinians for not making progress towards peace.

NPR Middle East history

NPR Middle East history 08/18/2004 10:43 PM
Six-part NPR series The Middle East and the West, history of Western involvement in the Middle East.

Middle East Payoff?

Middle East Payoff? 07/07/2004 12:50 PM
Middle East reforms could present an opportunity for a few risk-taking companies.

Middle East Correspondant?

Middle East Correspondant? 01/07/2004 02:02 PM
Osama bin Laden writes today's comment in the Guardian. Is the Comment & Analysis section of a major national paper (and international website) the right place to publish a call for jihad?

Rice set for key Middle East tour

Rice set for key Middle East tour 02/06/2005 01:18 AM
The US secretary of state is heading to Israel on Sunday to try to boost hopes for Middle East peace.

Apple Centres For Middle East

Apple Centres For Middle East 05/19/2004 08:55 AM
The distributor of Apple products in the Middle East is seeking to set up the region's first chain of Apple Centres. By Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu)

EU Defuses Tension with U.S. Over Middle
East

EU Defuses Tension with U.S. Over Middle
East 04/17/2004 12:46 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 17 2004 4:48PM GMT

Bush to remake Middle East

Bush to remake Middle East 03/21/2003 11:26 AM
WSJ says war in Iraq really first step in grand scheme to remake the Middle East. Rumsfeld and Fleischer can still be seen on TV news implying "we just want them to disarm". More on What Makes W. Tick from The Atlantic.

Solution to the problems in the Middle
East

Solution to the problems in the Middle
East 01/04/2005 09:20 AM
As you are aware, there's bit of a problem in the middle east. There's a little argument about some land...

"The New York Times > International >
Middle East > From the E..."

"The New York Times > International >
Middle East > From the E..." 05/28/2004 03:37 AM

Cisco drives Middle East research

Cisco drives Middle East research 02/19/2004 02:37 AM
AME Info Feb 19 2004 6:35AM GMT

AllTheContent.com-ToutLeContenu.com
positions in the Middle East

AllTheContent.com-ToutLeContenu.com
positions in the Middle East 07/14/2004 03:35 AM
Call Group International (CGI) will distribute the mobile contents of AllTheContent.com-ToutLeContenu.com in the Middle-East region. [PRWEB Jul 14, 2004]

Apple Centres coming to Middle East

Apple Centres coming to Middle East 05/19/2004 10:18 AM
The distributor of Apple products in the Middle East is seeking to set up the region's first chain of Apple Centres, according to Macworld UK...

Ex-Diplomats Fault Blair on Middle East
(AP)

Ex-Diplomats Fault Blair on Middle East
(AP) 04/26/2004 09:37 PM
AP - More than 50 former diplomats have signed a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, harshly criticizing his policy in the Middle East and calling on Britain to exert more influence over the United States.

VC pair sets eyes on Middle East

VC pair sets eyes on Middle East 06/22/2005 02:13 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jun 22 2005 6:40AM GMT

Demand for 3G handsets in Middle East
set to grow

Demand for 3G handsets in Middle East
set to grow 08/23/2004 06:22 AM
MENAFN Aug 23 2004 9:09AM GMT

Serebra Synapse to be Offered in the
Middle East

Serebra Synapse to be Offered in the
Middle East 04/16/2004 01:05 PM
BC Technology Apr 16 2004 5:40PM GMT

Gates makes first visit to the Middle
East

Gates makes first visit to the Middle
East 01/25/2004 06:17 AM
Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation, is in Egypt on his first ever visit to the Middle East. Gates arrived as an official guest of the Government of Egypt and is to meet with the region's top government officials and Egyptian businessmen. Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Minister of Communications and Information Technology met Mr. Gates in 2002 and invited him to visit Egypt.

Smallest IBM desktop PC to debut in
Middle East

Smallest IBM desktop PC to debut in
Middle East 06/27/2004 05:06 AM
AME Info Jun 27 2004 9:37AM GMT

Middle East dominates as G-8 summit ends

Middle East dominates as G-8 summit ends 06/10/2004 09:37 AM

Winds of change in the Middle East:
which way do they blow?

Winds of change in the Middle East:
which way do they blow? 04/02/2005 12:49 AM
Arabic Media Internet Network Apr 2 2005 5:11AM GMT

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Middle
East

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Middle
East 04/20/2004 11:13 AM
named John Negroponte the new ambassador to Iraq .. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Middle East .. Lovely .. AP

seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107 &slug=Iraq%20US%20Ambassador
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Bush Says Iraq Should Be Example for
Rest of Middle East

Bush Says Iraq Should Be Example for
Rest of Middle East 06/29/2004 12:23 PM
The president wrapped up a NATO summit by urging the Middle East to "recognize the direction of the events of the day."

There goes Bush's "Greater Middle East
Initiative"

There goes Bush's "Greater Middle East
Initiative" 09/17/2004 10:39 AM
Iraq's neighbors are alarmed by the regional instability arising from the war.

Pentagon Expands Outposts in Middle East
(AP)

Pentagon Expands Outposts in Middle East
(AP) 09/22/2004 05:15 PM
AP - The U.S. military is quietly expanding its network of small outposts worldwide to help fight terrorism in Middle Eastern and African hotspots, even as it prepares to send home tens of thousands of troops from Cold War bases in Germany and South Korea.

Dennis Prager: Iran clarifies the Middle
East

Dennis Prager: Iran clarifies the Middle
East 12/31/2003 09:40 PM

Middle East: Islamic Militants Take
Jihad To The Internet

Middle East: Islamic Militants Take
Jihad To The Internet 06/17/2004 12:10 AM
Truth News Jun 17 2004 4:37AM GMT

Mysterious video clip of skirmish in
Middle East

Mysterious video clip of skirmish in
Middle East 06/04/2004 02:20 PM
I don't know anything about this video clip, and it seems like the guy who posted it ("Eric Bruderton") doesn't really know, either. But he writes that he's afraid of losing his life for posting it. It shows some Americans in a Middle Eastern country getting shot at with rocket launchers, and they're shooting back. Then they hop in a jeep and drive away, and another vehicle chases them, shooting missiles at them. It looks real, but something about the occasional bursts of static seem like they were edited in. Could this be a stealth marketing campaign for a movie?

You’ve probably come here for answers about the clip. I wish I could give them to you. I don’t know these people, I don’t know who’s shooting at them and I don’t know why they are being targeted. I don’t even know where they are. Maybe the Middle East. All I do know is that it’s important. Important enough that by the time you’ve read this, Eric Bruderton will likely have been erased from existence, both literally and figuratively.

Link CarbWire's Jon Gales sez: It's a movie... Like with actors and stuff :P. That page you linked was just viral marketing. Check these links: Hollywood Reporter, Film Threat , September Tapes. It had me going too, but the faux static stuff gave it away.

Q3 2003 saw 25 per cent growth in PC
sales across Middle East, according to
IDC

Q3 2003 saw 25 per cent growth in PC
sales across Middle East, according to
IDC 12/17/2003 01:25 AM
AME Info Dec 17 2003 0:36AM ET

Books top online sales in Middle East:
survey

Books top online sales in Middle East:
survey 07/10/2004 06:49 AM
Khaleejtimes.com - Sat Jul 10, 07:02 am GMT

BBC NEWS | Middle East | US hands over
sovereignty in Iraq

BBC NEWS | Middle East | US hands over
sovereignty in Iraq 06/28/2004 08:30 AM
BBC News: Iraqi handover 'brought forward' .. return .. bbc

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3845517.stm
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Microsoft Business Solutions CRM arrives
in Middle East

Microsoft Business Solutions CRM arrives
in Middle East 12/13/2003 07:07 AM
AME Info Dec 13 2003 5:35AM ET

BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Al-Qaeda'
threat to US airlines

BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Al-Qaeda'
threat to US airlines 06/09/2004 10:54 AM

AllTheContent.com-ToutLeContenu.com
Continues to Expand in the Middle East

AllTheContent.com-ToutLeContenu.com
Continues to Expand in the Middle East 02/05/2005 09:22 PM
AllTheContent.com continues to develop its activities in the Middle East through a partnership with Vimio, the Connectivity Provider. [PRWEB Feb 5, 2005]

Interview with Apple's Middle East
Product Manager

Interview with Apple's Middle East
Product Manager 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
Our colleagues at Faq-Mac have posted an interview with Apple's Middle East Product Department Manager, Ghassan Bendali, while he was at GITEX, Dubai...
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Open maps of London event: April 14,
London

Open maps of London event: April 14,
London 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Open Knowledge Forums are a series of lectures and panel discussions about the ways that "open knowledge" can benefit the public interest. The next one is a week away, in London, and it's about a plan to produce a set of public domain maps of London (London's maps were produced at tax-payer expense, but can't be freely used; rather, you have to pay the ordinance survey thousands of pounds for the privilege; by contrast, US government maps are free and plentiful, and form the basis for thousands and thousand of competing mapping efforts, from Michelin guides to Google Maps).

There are a number of interesting proposals for this, including deploying an army of GPS-wielding geohackers, and buying up Russian satellite photos of London. Check out this squib from last January's NTK:

London's geowanking fraternity have come up with an intriguing proposition. With a grand's worth of Russian 1-meter resolution satellite pics, they believe they can stitch together an entirely free, redistributable vector database of the capital, freed from the shackles of the Ordnance Survey's restrictive copyrights, and thus open to all manner of GPL-style repurposing.

Here are the details:

* When: Thurs April 14th 2005, 7-9pm

* Where: Stanhope Centre, Marble Arch, London. [WWW]Directions

* Who can attend: public. Registration is optional but useful so please notify us if you can via okforums-info@okfn.org.

* Speakers: Steve Coast of openstreetmap.org; Roger Longhorn (geodata policy expert); Giles Lane of urbantapestries.net; Jo Walsh of mappinghacks.com

Link

Off to London

Off to London 02/01/2005 09:26 PM

I'm leaving for London in a couple of hours. I'll probably be posting a bit while I'm there as time and connectivity permit...hopefully some photos as well.

Packing this morning, I came up with a list of the extra stuff that I need to do before going to the airport now that everyone's a terrorist until proven innocent** and the major airlines are all about to go out of business:

• Clip my fingernails. With nail clippers verboten on planes, you need to do it before you leave.
• Silence my electric toothbrush. Last time I traveled, my toothbrush turned on in my luggage and the battery was long dead when I got home. Luckily I can plug the power cord into the brush to prevent it from turning on, lest some anxious baggage screener thinks it's a buzzing bomb and/or illegal sexual device.
• Leave ridiculously early. I am a single male traveling alone on an American Airlines flight to Heathrow on a ticket purchased not so long ago...I'm pretty sure that I'm going to get pulled aside for a "random" screening. My only hope: my summer tan has faded and I'm white as can be (Non-Terrorist White is the hottest color for pants at J. Crew this season)...come on, wave whitey through!
• Wardrobe change. Gotta wear pants that don't require a belt and shoes that can be slipped on and off with ease.
• Eat. You may get food on the plane, you may not. With random screenings come random feedings and I don't like my odds in either case.

** The Jan/Feb 2005 Atlantic Monthly has a couple of great articles on terrorism...here's a relevant snippet from Success Without Victory (subscribers only) by James Fallows:

Screening lines at airports are perhaps the most familiar reminder of post-9/11 security. They also exemplify what's wrong with the current approach.

Many of the routines and demands are silly, eroding rather than building confidence in the security regime of which they are part. "You can't go through an airport line without thinking 'This is dumb,'" says Graham Allison, the author of the recent Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, and the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at Harvard, which conducts many projects on anti-terrorism and security. "You have two people whose job it is to see if the name on your driver's license is the same as the name on your ticket -- as if any self-respecting terrorist would fail to think of that. You have a guy whose job is to shout out a reminder for you to take off your jacket and get your computer out of your bag. You've got one-year-olds taking off their shoes. It is hard to think of a way you could caricature it to make it look sillier." At the same time, the ritual manages to be intimidating, as a standing reminder of how much Americans have to fear.

Getting around London

Getting around London 02/01/2005 09:58 PM
The Transport for London Journey Planner shows you how to get from anywhere in London to anywhere else by public transport, on foot or by bike. Fancy a stroll from Trafalgar Square to Big Ben? Help yourself to a custom-built PDF route map. If you're travelling by road, you can use webca ms to see exactly what the traffic's like. (But the best downloadable London maps are still on the BBC web site)

In the London Eye

In the London Eye 04/21/2004 01:05 PM
Several weeks ago I posted a poll asking where you wanted to see me. "In the London Eye" received... (86 words)

Poverty in London

Poverty in London 06/22/2004 05:04 PM
Charles Booth Online Archive. Charles Booth's survey of life and labour in London at the end of the Victorian era, with the famous poverty maps.

WTF-2 in London this Saturday

WTF-2 in London this Saturday 05/24/2004 04:44 AM
The next WTFCon is in London this Saturday: it's a one-day convention devoted to hackery subjects.

* An open space gathering and conference of various groups, projects, people, and organisations active and interested in creating a better world.

* Action and not just talk. Too many social forums and gatherings result with little or no outcome. Come and propose and gain support for actions during Soho Summit, ESF, G8, GDR etc.

* An assembly of gifts and needs: tell everyone what your projects are all about, what they have to offer, and what they need. Together we have everything. Let's self-organise and share!

* About working together, many of us have shared principles despite our diverse goals. No more either or!

Link (Thanks, Tav!)

London: Next City of the Sky?

London: Next City of the Sky? 06/29/2004 08:41 PM
London architects and developers are pushing to remake the city's profile, much to the chagrin of conservation groups and locals.

Get a job (Boston), get a job (London)

Get a job (Boston), get a job (London) 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
Web jobs, baby.

Ben and Mena come to London...

Ben and Mena come to London... 07/09/2004 03:00 AM

So Ben and Mena and Loic have been in London for meetings and a few of us managed to get together and hang out with them for a bit. We've got Ben drinking warm flavoursome beer, Mena puffing away on cigarettes in pubs and Loic's been trying to run over small children with his push trolley. We even got to roam around Television Centre with them a bit today - Mena making a particularly fetching weather presenter.

Loic took some pictures too:

• Arriving in London
• A really nasty picture of me looking like I have a comb-over
• M ena posing with cigarette
• M ena presenting the weather

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The Museum of London

The Museum of London 12/07/2003 08:14 AM
The Museum of London.

3D London Tube

3D London Tube 11/15/2003 03:29 PM
These 3D rendered London Tube maps are pretty mind-blowing. Link (via Blackbelt Jones)

Ben and Mena come to London

Ben and Mena come to London 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
weather presenter .. Tom Coates .. more

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Goodbye London

Goodbye London 06/09/2004 02:33 AM

Had a "lovely" time in London. Goodbye and thanks for all the chips.

I'm off to Finland today. I'll be giving a talk at the EVA conference tomorrow.

Oh, sweet London

Oh, sweet London 12/30/2003 01:24 AM
This city is most certainly a place where it's impossible to get bored. Yesterday, after an early arrival, we went to see the Lord of the Rings exhibition at Science Museum, which was very well worth the rather steep 12£ admission: some of the miniatures are simply amazing, Sauron and the ringwraiths can scare you witless even if seen from a distance, but the best part are some of the paintings and sketches: I felt like any weak-minded creature in front of the Ring as I let my eyes rest upon the artwork of Sauron overseeing his troops at the plains of Gorgoroth... This must be mine - my precioussss...

Afterwards, we were - completely accidentally - treated to the artwork of Yann Arthus-Bertrand, who had an outdoor exhibition of 3x2 meter photographs outside the Natural History Museum. Go see the stuff this guy shoots - some of it is quite simply breathtaking. Especially in large size.

Anyhow, the tournament looks like it's going to be a good one: plenty of nice people all around, good location, relaxed schedule... Well, I might still lose all of my games :)

Unfortunately, I am not able to get GPRS roaming work, so it looks like no moblogging. I even forgot all of my USB leads home, so I can't even upload any pictures. Oh well.

Faces of London

Faces of London 02/05/2005 10:18 PM

Without intending to, I ended up taking photos of a bunch of faces while I was in London. Here are some of them:

It's been awhile since I've seriously picked up a camera (not that I was ever that serious about it) and I'm a little rusty. I'm hoping to get in lots more practice in the coming months, so the quality should hopefully improve.

Back from London

Back from London 02/05/2005 10:18 PM

Back from London and up at the ungodly hour of 7:00 AM ET after getting to bed at 1:30 AM ET, which was the minute I got home from the airport. Still, six hours of sleep is better than none hours. I'm going to use the time to get some stuff done...lots of exciting and dread-inspiring things to do in the next couple of weeks. Trip pictures are forthcoming; luckily my camera battery lasted the whole time despite the charger being thousands of miles away and I took lots of photos.

But quickly, I learned a few additional travel tips on this trip (to add to the list):

• Never purchase a US to UK power outlet converter at a Canadian/Australian ex-pat shop. It will fail to work after a day or so. I practically had to splash water on it to get a good connection.
• When going through security at the airport, don't wear a shirt that depicts a little girl blowing her head off with a gun, even though her splattered brains turn into butterflies.
• You know that bottle of unopened soda in the bag bouncing on your hip for the last 1/2 hour? Yeah, that's going to spray everywhere when you open it, dummy. When I got home, my coat was so sticky that I just kinda pressed it to the wall to hang it up, no hook needed.

Oh, and I ate kangaroo! Not half bad, but I probably wouldn't go out of my way to order it again.

More on London Booted

More on London Booted 04/25/2004 11:07 AM
Following up on this BoingBoing post about the bootleg Clash remix project "London Booted," Will says:

We featured a preview of London Booted in issue-zero of our bootleg newsletter, which you can find here if you're interested (it's down the bottom in the "Coming Soon" section). We're also planning a follow up for issue-two (out 29th April) where we'll be talking to the remixers involved and also they guy who organised the project (only subscribers to the mailing list will get this issue).

Link

The London Screensaver (B&W) 1.0

The London Screensaver (B&W) 1.0 07/07/2004 10:42 PM
10 high-resolution photos of London, England in black and white

London Booted

London Booted 04/24/2004 10:42 PM
London Booted - A tribute to the Clash. In the vein of the Grey Album, here is an album of mash-ups in tribute to London Calling. Especially good is the mix of The Clash's Spanish Bombs and Outkast's Bombs over Baghdad. After reading the background (and hopefully donating to one of the worthwhile sponsors), get your download on.

"article at This Is London,"

"article at This Is London," 03/19/2003 10:44 PM

UXnet Comes to London

UXnet Comes to London 12/19/2004 03:55 PM
You’re invited to the first monthly social meeting in London for the User Experience Design community.

Wi-Fi from London Streets

Wi-Fi from London Streets 12/20/2003 08:35 PM
StreetNet Islington, London

London crawling

London crawling 06/05/2005 11:06 PM
Tomorrow we fly to London to see old friends and new sights, spend time with family, and speak at a new conference featuring some of the top names in standards-based design. Last-minute addition: great job opening at Campbell-Ewald.

London Calling

London Calling 11/11/2003 03:21 PM
A nice sit down and a cup of tea are among many events (pdf) planned for GWB's impending visit to the UK. Police are estimating 100,000 plus demonstrators for his visit, and London's Mayor says of American requests for an exclusion zone to protect him, 'I don't think that's got a chance at all'. How does this level of grass-roots dissent compare to his reception when out and about in the US?

London Tube Map as flowchart

London Tube Map as flowchart 12/22/2003 12:36 PM
Nice HOWTO for using graphics in the style of the London tube-map to flowchart complex processes. Includes downloadable PowerPoint templates. Link (via Kottke)

F1: London GP 'could happen'

F1: London GP 'could happen' 07/06/2004 03:21 PM
London mayor Ken Livingstone says the capital could host a Grand Prix by 2007

London council goes wireless

London council goes wireless 09/10/2004 11:19 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 10 2004 2:39PM GMT

parody of the London Tube Map

parody of the London Tube Map 12/13/2003 08:11 AM

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The London News Review :: Should I Rip
This? v1.0

The London News Review :: Should I Rip
This? v1.0 09/08/2004 11:05 AM
The London News Review :: Should I Rip This? v1.0

lnreview.co.uk/music/should_i_rip_this.html
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Lessig lecture in London, May 27

Lessig lecture in London, May 27 05/21/2004 06:49 AM
Larry Lessig is speaking on London on the 27th of May. Flash Link

Doomed to failure in the Middle East

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