Postcard from Bishkek

It has been announced that the week from from March 28 to April 1 will be Wikipedia Week here in Kyrgyzstan. It is an initiative by the Soros Foundation – Kyrgyzstan, (SFK), which is an international, non-government, private foundation that was set up by the Open Society Institute in 1993, headed by George Soros, the financier and philanthropist.  It is […]

The other day I was showing the kids the photos of our trip to Ala Archa and Alamedin, and the video that Alicia, Philippa and Sebastian shot and they asked me if it was possible to create a website for them so that they could upload posts about things that interest them. I know from […]

There’s been a lot of discussion on the internet recently about internet provision in hotels and, in my role as General Director of two hotels, I have been following the discussion with interest. The internet has become an important part of our daily lives, checking emails, and social networking sites, checking the news and following […]

In the far off days of my youth, getting letters was something that happened quite rarely … it was quite an event. “Snail mail” was the only option open to us, (apart from the telephone, but we only got a telephone late on), and it took a couple of days for letters to arrive – […]

I was faced with an interesting dilemma this week … I received a Skype message from a colleague, the director of another tour company based here in Bishkek.  He wanted to swap links between our websites.

My move into computing came about like so many of the big events in my life – by accident. It all began when a teacher left the school.  She taught one of the two computing classes, and as they were timetabled at the same time, the other teacher couldn’t take it over, so someone else […]