Leigh in Azerbaijan

This free site could be useful for grandfathers in far distant lands who want to play with photos of their grand-daughter.  Thanks Freya (I assume) for posting on Facebook.

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“You must draw a white-hot iron over this Georgian land!…You will have to break the wings of this Georgia! Let the blood of the petit bourgeois flow until they give up all their resistance! Impale them! Tear them apart!” – Vladimir Lenin
So commences an article from freelance journalist Michael J. Totten who is in [...]

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I’m discovering the wonders of connectivity through Twitter – that small tool where you can post 140 character messages to those who are ‘following’ you.
To begin with I had just a few ‘friends’ on Twitter and I wasn’t finding it illuminating reading constant facebook-like status updates.  I knew that some people found it very useful [...]

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Had a conversation with teacher assistant Esmira, from the Early Learning Centre.  She said that during the Soviet days they were restricted from listening to Western music, rather they only had classical and Soviet music.  Of course, everyone secretly listened to European music stations on shortwave and Esmira loved listening to the Beatles. More than [...]

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“Azerbaijan introduces internet booths.”  Who knows what this means as internet cafes are a part of life here, frequented by many gamers yelling and cheering against each other.
On Dick Cheney’s visit.  “… Aliyev’s talks with the US vice president were likely to focus on issues regarding, not only the security of oil and gas pipelines, [...]

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