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Origin and Meaning of Subhi

What does Subhi mean ? It depends on what lan­guage you’re using. In Arabic/Turkish/Urdu: Subhi صبحي Can also be spelt as Sobhi, Sub­hie or Sob­hie Means “My early morn­ing” or “My Morn­ing“ This name is used for males. Hindi/Hindu: Subhi Means “Lucky“ This name is used for females. Share on Facebook

The cost of installing a new bathroom

Refur­bish­ing a bath­room, how much will it cost? A ques­tion often asked on forums on the inter­net with no clear answer. An exam­ple of those is “I got a quote for £4500!!!! is that expen­sive??” A typ­i­cal answer would be, how much work is involved, which doesn’t really answer the ques­tion.   I have attempted to […]

About projects

A project is one small step for the project spon­sor, one giant leap for the project man­ager.  Good project man­age­ment is not so much know­ing what to do and when, as know­ing what excuses to give and when.  If every­thing is going exactly to plan, some­thing some­where is going mas­sively wrong.  Every­one asks for a strong […]

batch renaming using awk and bash

Mass renam­ing of files using awk and bash

All the google apps DNS settings in one place

All the Google Apps DNS set­tings in one place.

Things to do in Abu Dhabi Airport Terminal 1 (AUH)

Get out, seri­ously, get out, spend as lit­tle time as pos­si­ble there. It made it to the top of my world’s worst air­port ter­mi­nals list, beat­ing JFK Jet blue ter­mi­nal hands down. You’re out of luck if you want some­thing to eat in T1, your only choice is Costa cof­fee. If you have plenty of time (90+ […]

Doing the impossible at Heathrow

I’ve done a stu­pid thing. I have booked a flight from T5 to Edin­burgh, that’s not the prob­lem though. The prob­lem is it leaves 65 min­utes after my first flight arrives into T1 !! So„„ T1 to T5 in 65 min­utes on air­side… Is it doable? The min­i­mum “legal con­nec­tion” is 90 min­utes accord­ing to BAA.com […]

The price

Missed the turn and paid the price, 19 miles round trip just to get back where I was. Share on Facebook

Using the internet in Zambia

So here I am in Lusaka, try­ing to get my daily fix of the inter­web. The eas­i­est way to get access on lim­ited basis is to buy a local mobile phone sim card, from the many many places that sell them around the city. I opted for a Zain SIM card (www.zm.zain.com) but you have […]

Getting to Zambia

My sis­ter is get­ting mar­ried in Lusaka in Zam­bia. Below is a quick list of air­lines and how you can get to Zam­bia from Europe and the Mid­dle East. FLIGHTS Fly­ing to Lusaka Air­port (IATA Air­port code: LUN) Direct flights from Europe: British Air­ways from Lon­don Heathrow (LHR). Every Wednes­day, Fri­day, Sun­day. A com­pre­hen­sive list is on: […]