Archive | July, 2006

July 17 is Non Photography Day

www.nonphotographyday.com – info Well I’m at work anyhow It even got on BBC

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How some violent jihadist groups are using organized-crime tactics to finance attacks around the globe

After the Bombay bombings, I found this article via the Counterterrorism Blog. USNews.com: How some violent jihadist groups are using organized-crime tactics to finance attacks around the globe Paying for Terror How jihadist groups are using organized-crime tactics–and profits–to finance attacks on targets around the globe

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Colombia Pump Station

Colombia Pump Station

Now that I’ve got a scanner. Here is an old photo from the helicopter (not taken by me though). It is from around 1994 when I was living in Colombia and flying around to the sites in helicopters. The pump station is, if I recall, Ecopetrol El Porvenir. The station is on the top of [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

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bookofjoe: National Register of Big Trees

bookofjoe: National Register of Big Trees

Worth visiting? bookofjoe: National Register of Big Trees

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Photo of Mozart’s Widow Found in Bavaria

Photo of Mozart’s Widow Found in Bavaria

A print of the only photograph of Mozart’s widow, Constanze Weber, has been found in Germany, according to der Spiegel magazine and BBC International News. The photograph was taken in 1840 in the Bavarian town of Altoetting when she was 78. She died two years later. Mozart and Constanze had six children in their nine-year [...]

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Ian at work

Ian at work

This is a few years old. Like about 22 years ago, me hard at work getting my hands dirty. I did the engineering of the whole skid mounted vapour recovery unit for Eagle Pump and Compressor. The unit shipped to near Ponoka where I did the commissioning also. Well now I’m back to similar things, [...]

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Soccer Card

Soccer Card

Just in time for the World Cup final. This card appeared on my desk where I used to work at Telvent a couple of years ago!

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Well actually, not, but maybe I’ll feel a little cooler here in Kuwait thinking about it!

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Aramex Shop & Ship

This is how to get stuff to Kuwait ordered in the US. Shop&Ship

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