Category archive for ‘About KZBlog’ 
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I’m Not Dead
Holiday vacations led to having to do a lot of catch up when I got back and therefore a lot of not posting. That plus an Internet block out that had nothing to do with anything except my own stupidity. But I am back and my workload has balanced out and there will be posting. [...]
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End of the Year Stats
A round up of stats for this domain and most popular posts, and so on. Partially posting this for my own benefit, so I have something to refer to next year! All stats are from Google Analytics even though Alexa and other sources do disagree slightly.
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My Yurt or Yours?
A new flirtatious T-shirt from KZBlog. It reads “My Yurt or Yours” in Russian with a yurt badge-style emblem. Perfect Christmas gift and a definite conversation starter in Almaty or Albequerque.
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Eco Village
Obviously it’s getting a bit cold for outside activities, but in a blatant attempt to promote my Tourism page, I’m republishing my comment on Ecovillage. Feel free to add information here or on the Tourism page about Ecovillage or other things to do in and around Astana. I’m also planning to repost the best comments [...]
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Retire Abroad
Retire Abroad is a surprisingly useful resource for expats. Although it’s targeted at people looking to retire to another country, it has great information and resources about life in general as well as statistical trends and stories. I was very interested in seeing where Kazakhstan and other countries stood in the Gini coefficient (income inequality) [...]
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Technorati Claim–Please Ignore
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Tourism Page
Of all the cool new things that come with having my own domain and a proper version of Wordpress, one of the best is that the Tourism Page is up and works accepting comments. When my friend came to visit me this summer one of the frustrations we had was that once we’d done Bayterek [...]
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Jeopardy Part II
I wrote earlier about one of my educational projects with an ESL teacher here in Kazakhstan. We designed an Jeopardy game in .html to have some fun with kids. Well, implementation didn’t go so well. A lot of teachers found it hard to work with because you had to edit so many different files and [...]
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Who Is One in KZ?
A new ratings site (call it Kazakhstan’s Alexa has sprung up: Whois1in.kz. Basically it tracks traffic to websites in the Kaznet web-space. However, I’m not sure how they limit that. They were kind enough to send me an invitation. So apparently blogging in English doesn’t really matter as long as your site is related to [...]
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Working Hard (Hardly Working)
As is usual, I’ve become busy particular as school has started. This year, I’m working very closely with a school and I have all sorts of interesting experiences to relate and some observations but I prefer to let a little time and distance pass before blogging about them so that they are less recognizable. And [...]
