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You can always rely on an air hostess
Itturns out that one of my colleagues is a trained flight attendant. She knowshow to deliver a baby, deal with drunks and passengers with flight-phobia, aswell as smile all day and put her hair up...
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I am now a commuter
“You’llhate the commute,” my ICIS suburban colleagues warned me when I told them I wasmoving to work in central London.My new office is on the corner of Trafalgar Square (site of today’s Olympic...
View ArticleComments are a private matter
Friendly or informative comments on the Bloghave always been welcome, so it is a matter of some disappointment that thecommenting function on the ICIS blogs has been switched off. It seems that...
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The thrill of travelling light
I am on a transatlantic flight the dayafter the London 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony. I pass athletes from Brazil in the departures lounge, and awheelchair athlete for Team USAis boarding my...
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Yahoo Messenger in the Air
Messaging via Yahoo Messenger (YM) is suchan established part of petrochemical life, particularly trading and reporting,that it is already old hat to be messaging with someone on a desktop, laptop...
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Another year of Chinese
Term is starting for Mandarin eveningclasses and I had better dust off last year’s work and see if any of it isstill lodged in my long-term memory. Of the class of eight, only two of usdecided to sit,...
View ArticleEPCA 2012 Budapest – 2,486 signed up
Only 11 days to go, and the EPCA Annual Meeting 2012 looks like being easily as big as last year’s event, with 2,486 delegates already signed up. The official number, which the Blog has taken from...
View ArticleThe journey to EPCA 2012 Budapest
Flying out of London Heathrow to any petchem industry event is like a works outing. It is the same 15 of us on the flight: ICIS, Shell, Noah’s Ark, Gantrade, INEOS, Tecnon, Clarksons, IHS. Probably...
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Official photos from EPCA 2012 Budapest
The Blog has selected a few photos from the official Picture Gallery on the EPCA website, taken at the EPCA Annual Conference in Budapest in October 2012.
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ICIS group at AFPM 2013
Here we are again at the AFPM (aka NPRA) IPC conference in San Antonio, Texas. For more photos, click here for the AFPM interactive supplement: http://fmgstatic.ceros.com/icb/afpm/page/1
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