Category archive for ‘Resources’ 
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Urgent Help Wanted
Came across the site Mojazarplata.kz [MySalary][RU]. The site is only in Russian so it’s not much use to expats but it seems like an interesting resource for tracking salaries, jobs in demand and other work trends. There’s a few surveys you can fill out, including one on whether or not your work is violating [...]
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Peace Corps in Kazakhstan Over the Holidays
Found a bunch of great posts by Peace Corps volunteers all over Kazakhstan about their preparations for Christmas, their frustrations and hopes. Thought it made for interesting reading. How do expats deal with living in a country where one of their culture’s major holidays is not celebrated? And how do the holidays get Kazakhified?
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Astana Fans
Going to the Team Astana website doesn’t get you a lot of news. Been trying to monitor it for news on when the name change to Samruk-Kazyna would go through officially and I still news reports on Bruyneel and Armstrong!
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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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Foreign Fonts
I’m working on a new T-shirt idea as a Christmas present for a friend–we’ll see if I can pull it off well enough to try to sell to the general public–and was looking for cool Cyrillic fonts. I thought my discoveries might be useful. Dafont has some awesome fonts in Russian Orthodox Church style, propaganda [...]
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Another Great Boxer
Just pointing you to a great article, Maskayev Eyes Vitali Klitschko Rematch. It’s a really great biography of a champion boxer from Zhambul, making a comeback at the age of 46! He’s had a fascinating life and the article is a good read with videos of his matches interspersed, including this one of his match [...]
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Silk Road Intelligencer
One resource I often consult is the Silk Road Intelligencer, a site that just reprints news from other sources. I don’t usually like sites that have no original content, and that reprint articles in whole from other sources. However SRI does give credit and usually includes a link to the original source. However, SRI does [...]
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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 [...]
