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Jones of Arabia

Jones of Arabia, originally uploaded by briggsiesblog.

Rob introduces us to his neighbours

The Hire Car

Dubai 2008, originally uploaded by briggsiesblog.

Ford Focus automatic as much pick up as snail

Rob's Swimming Pool!

Rob's Swimming Pool!, originally uploaded by briggsiesblog.

Not bad having this on your doorstep. Brian was in here every day and it was a great place to get out of the desert heat.

All-New Netvibes Ginger Exits Private Beta

Netvibes, the pioneer of the super-personalized homepage, today announced the public launch of Netvibes Ginger, an entirely new version of Netvibes featuring powerful new content distribution features that enables anyone to collect and publish to the web all aspects of their daily digital life for anyone to see.

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How the V word frightens Microsoft

Now, I’ve been going to press launches for 25 years, and all of them talk about the new features and how they’re better/faster/cheaper/ than the competition; this was the first time where much of the talk - at Microsoft's Windows 2008 launch - centred on a feature that’s not yet been delivered. The Hyper V, its own take on virtualisation.

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