Chris Saul's Blog

Wednesday November 22, 2006

Greenprint - save trees and money

A cool new app I must try - Green Print.

Green Print, amongst other things, saves you printing unnecessary pages, thereby saving you money and time. It'll also save trees, which will annoy all those Swedish foresters planting those renewable resources, but never mind.

Green Print comes from a company that an old friend of mine's involved in. Jamie Kellerman and I hadn't heard from eachother for years, but recently randomly hooked up via the blogosphere. Good luck to Jamie and to Green Print, I say.

Bloglines not picking up new entries

Bloglines doesn't appear to be picking up the fact that new entries have appeared in my blog.

Re-subscribing to the atom feed seems to fix this.

So, for all of you Bloglines users wondering why I haven't posted recently, here's a telepathic message beaming out to you to edit your subscription.

Tashkent, here I come.

I now have a shiny new multiple visa for Uzbekistan in my passport. All being well some stamps will appear next to it in December.

The procedure was easier than I'd expected. First ask the Sun partner to send an invitation for you to the correct ministry in Uzbekistan. That ministry then give the partner the telex number of the authorisation telex they send the consulate and the partner sends it to you. You go to the Uzbek Consulate in Dubai on either Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday between 9 and 12. It's behind HSBC on Jumeirah Beach Rd. Get there early. You stand in a queue not sure what to do for a while, then lose your English self consciousness and shove to the front and ask what forms you need. You fill in the form, wait for two hours to get to the front of the queue, give the telex number and hand over your form and a photo, then pay 1018Dhs and get your visa. Easy.

Once I'd got to the front it took 5 minutes to get the visa in my passport and the passport photocopied and given back to me with a receipt. The Sun Dubai office hero Tony usually does this sort of stuff for us on our behalf, but for some reason I had to go myself for this visa.

I'd thought that Uzbek was written in cyrillic script, but the Uzbek sections of my visa are written in the Latin alphabet. Time to hop over to Wikipedia for a linguistic update.