Chris Saul's Blog

Thursday March 12, 2009

Willy Star will sort you out

Agnelo, the chap who has re-registered our cars for the last few years, has done a sterling job for us once again. Two cars quickly re-registered, fines paid (more on that later) and all the paperwork sorted out.

He now has his own company, Willy Star. An unusual name, but not one you'd forget in a hurry.

He will re-register your car, collect cars to be serviced, drop them off and pick them up. He also has a service where people wanting to drive somewhere and drink can call him when they want to come home - he will then turn up with his driver, drive your car back with his driver following to take him home afterwards.

Agnelo turns up when he says he will, does what he says he'll do and has very fair rates.

Dealing with re-registration is a real pain. I highly recommend that any Dubai readers drop me a line if they want to use Agnelo's services. You can leave a comment or send a mail to christopher dot saul at gmail dot com and I will pass on his number to you.

Pete Goss makes it to Oz

The sailor Pete Goss has completed an amazing journey from the UK to Australia.

Sun used to sponsor Pete Goss in the last 90s. I was the Systems Engineer who looked after the installation at his group's office in Totnes in the South of England. At the time he was building a super catamaran yacht to navigate the globe. Sadly, the catamaran didn't get very far before part of its bow broke off and the voyage abandoned.

Interesting that he managed to make it to Australia using 19th century technology after being let down with the best the 21 century could offer.

Meeting and working with Pete and his team, in my very small way, was a real privilege. He's one of those inspirational types who fires up those around him, doesn't give up and is always up to something or other.

His offices were also, I reckon, the first StarOffice users in the UK at the time!

The ISP that was founded around the project at the time is still going strong with their content management solution. It all used to be on Sun at the time - I wonder if it still is?