As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am enrolled on John Thornhill’s 2009 Masterclass and Week 4 material was made available last Monday evening. Week 4 entailed opening an AWeber account and then combining this with setting up a sign-up form at the top of the student’s blog. I managed to get through the [...]

Dubai has a big traffic problem, no doubt about it. I’m not talking about the reckless driving, which deserves a post all on its own, but the congestion and endless traffic jams that have started to become commonplace in the last few years. Dubai is undergoing a massive development programme at the moment, largely driven by the [...]

I signed up for a Twitter account just over two weeks ago and am was initially a bit unsure about how to go forward with this massively popular social networking website. Twitter is very straight forward to use - a 140 character limit answer to ‘What are you doing?’ leaves no room for ‘beating around the bush’ [...]

A few weeks ago I was browsing through Salehoo looking for suitable products to sell on eBay; consumer electronics was the area I had decided to concentrate on. I had tried internet marketing several times in the past, buying into a couple of schemes that were based on structured multi-level marketing (or MLM as it is usually known) [...]

Believe it or not, we don’t get much snow in the UAE; however sometimes, usually in early January, the mountains of Ras Al Khaimah do get a slight brushing of the white stuff. It disappears pretty quickly and has brief curiosity value only. Until recently I hadn’t seen real snow for a long time. In [...]

I’ve always had a thing about flying. Not scared or anything…just fascinated by it. Like many young guys I wanted to become a pilot and, also like many young guys, it just didn’t happen. Unfortunately the fascination never left, but dimmed, perhaps, as I started working and tried to concentrate on other things….like the real [...]

Hello and welcome to my brand new blog! A little about myself first. I am a British expatriate living and working in Dubai with my wife Lana. We have two lovely daughters who are both studying abroad at the moment. You may have heard about Dubai, but if not….well, it is situated in the United [...]