It looks like Amsterdam is about to pull the plug on its famous (or, perhaps more accurately, infamous) Red Light District:Arguing that too many brothels and sex bars are linked to criminality, the authorities plan to all but erase the Red Light District. If the plan goes through, the peep shows, sex shops and prostitute windows that line the small alleys and canals will have to go, giving way to
Monday, February 11, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Four years for 0.003 of a gram
Posted on 4:58 PM by jackline
It's hyper-fanatical nonsense like this that is going to keep Dubai from becoming the global trade and tourism capital it wants to be, regardless of how many skycrapers or golf courses or palm-shaped islands it builds.Keeping drugs out of the UAE is one thing; throwing people in prison for four years because they had a few poppy seeds on their person or a minuscule speck of cannabis on their shoe
Monday, February 4, 2008
Too far to drive, too close to fly
Posted on 4:27 PM by jackline
That's the conundrum I face when I have to attend meetings with our client in San Antonio.A general rule of thumb regarding short business trips (in this part of the country, at least; along the East Coast, the rules are probably different) is this: there's a 200-mile cut-off between driving and flying. Any trip shorter than 200 miles - from Houston to Austin, for example, or Lake Charles - you
The Patriots failure
Posted on 10:30 AM by jackline
I'll admit it. I was rooting for the New England Patriots to win, if only because I wanted to witness a perfect season (and, in the process, tell the '72 Dolphins that they can finally STFU now).Alas, it wasn't to be. And the New England Patriots, instead of being remembered as the greatest team in the history of the NFL with an unblemished 19-0 record, are now more likely to be remembered as the
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The SOQ from Hell
Posted on 4:25 PM by jackline
We've been given a bit of a reprieve at work - the office relocation date has been pushed back from January 31st to February 15th. This is welcome in that it gives me more time to clean, organize and pack; I've been so busy over the last couple of weeks that I really haven't made a lot of headway in that regard. I still can't say I'm overjoyed about the prospect of trading in an office with a
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A raptor in the neighborhood
Posted on 7:32 PM by jackline
I caught this guy sitting atop a tree across the street from my house a few days ago:I think it's a red-tailed hawk. Without a telephoto lens for my camera, however, it's hard to tell.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Happy fun office relocation time!
Posted on 7:03 AM by jackline
I knew this was coming, so I wasn't particularly surprised when this e-mail hit my work inbox about an hour ago:We just received this information late yesterday. Facilities Management will be terminating our current lease effective January 31, 2008. We will be relocating [to a building that already contains our firm's architecture sector].I don’t have any other information about logistics on this
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