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Corporate believes and fallacies

The circumstances surrounding the removal of British Petroleum (BP) chairman Albert Manifold after less than a year in the role—reportedly “without warning and without explanation”—provide a fascinating glimpse into the often opaque dynamics of large…

Laptop Selection

I have been working a residential job on a 5-2 working schedule.  After struggling with support from Sager / Prostar (Clevo laptop resellers), I moved from laptop to Quiet PC.  This has been working great –  quite, reliable…

The money pit – Nissan Patrol  Y62

Over last year my Nissan Patrol  Y62 became a money pit. I was somewhat surprised and disappointed with the car quality build and expenses. It has only 72,000 miles (~ 115,000 km), being driven on…

Tires (tyres) care in the desert conditions

In hot environment (Middle East, some parts of Australia, Central Asia,  etc.)  tires are loosing their elasticity and getting hard. There are two risk driving on hard tires (tyres): In different part of the world…

Western righteousness in corporations

When I first started working in a western company, I was surprised with the people’s reaction that when one of the western privileged hit a pedestrian while driving. In the office they put a carton…

Nissan Patrol Desert winter treatments

After washing 5.1m long and 2m wide (16 ft long and 6 ft wide) car weekly for over two years I started thinking how to minimize the efforts and time, without causing too much damage…

Improving Nissan Patrol (Y62) suspension

Every country with bad roads has its own reasons. In Kuwait those are hot weather, increased demand due to expanding population among other issues. During 2021 I had to replace front lower and upper links…

Cost of owning Nissan Patrol over the years and Nissan CEO’s response

From this article you will have first hand information on how much does Nissan Patrol ownership cost in the Middle east.  Information is incomplete, as when I approached Nissan, they refused to release the figures. …

Good bye Clevo Prostar (Sager) and welcome Quiet PC Leviathan Z4 ATX Gaming PC

Back in 2005 sitting in South Korea and copying some data from my Asus laptop my hard drive gave up without giving any notice.   I had no data of any sentimental value or otherwise on…

Applying car ceramic coating in the desert – Gtechniq Crystal Serum and EXO v4

This is a historical description, as the coating was applied in December 2022.  I have previously tried and install following coatings: Meguiar’s Hybrid Paint Coating – my first one. Declared longevity was one year with…

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