so I'm in Dubai, something that has proven a problem for this week's newsletter. But no problem is unsolvable, and I'm sure we'll be able to find a solution.
So the thing is, Dubai (and the United Arab Emirates as a whole), bans any website they think can be against their religious or cultural sensitivities, so any website with nude images, gambling, references to alcohol etc, but also a lot of networking websites. And also Flickr, where I get the images for the newsletter from, so all the images I have in my newsletter comes up as broken links... annoying!
The yellow image of
Um Saeed to the right is what I see when I try to access a blocked website.
oh well - I am sure we will find a solution, I am not the only person in the world able to do this newsletter, it might end up being sent a bit late, but challenges are there to be resolved.... otherwise I'm enjoying Dubai. Crazy working hours (I'm 4 hours ahead of the UK and 9 hours ahead of the US), lots of meetings, but also lots of sun, summer and good friends.
Here's an image of me in front of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest tower in the world. I saw this tower when it was being built, and now its finished. Its actually very very big. The base is enormous and its hard to fit the whole tower into a picture.
Maybe this is what I will have to do, upload images to my blog and use them for the newsletter (weirdly enough blogs aren't banned...). Hum hum.
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