Entries from September 2007 ↓

The latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey shows that Turks have the least favorable views of the U.S. out of people in 47 countries.  Back in 2002, 30% had a favorable view (that’s where the Germans are today).
While Pew finds that opinions of the U.S. have worsened in 23 of 33 countries for which they have [...]

Ethan Schoonover has written a helpful post about managing tasks in which he recommends the following:
“Write your tasks as if you are delegating them to someone you actually know.”
His point is that by writing down tasks clearly enough that someone you know could understand them, you’ll be providing enough context so that when you return [...]

Things in Ankara couldn’t be going better.  I was worried that the meetings I’m observing would amount to short rubber-stamp sessions, but they’ve actually been really lively and fun to watch.  I don’t know how these guys are holding up though since it’s Ramadan and they’re all fasting.  You thought your office meetings were rough?  [...]

I’m leaving for Ankara in a couple hours to observe a sermon selection meeting for the first time.  Observing these meetings has always been central to my dissertation, but I’m anxious to see what they really look like in practice.  I’ll be back in Istanbul Thursday or Friday.

I was tagged by Dan Myers to share 8 random things about myself  — he also told me not to procrastinate and make it my next post.  “Who, me?” I thought, but then I remembered that Jimi tagged me with the “5 things you don’t know about me” meme back in January and I never [...]

I tried to visit orgtheory.net today and received a message saying that the site had been blocked by a Turkish civil court.  I got this message before when I tried to read a politics blog at CNN and found it annoying, but I didn’t investigate the story until today.
It turns out that lawyers working for [...]

At least it did mine. 
I’m better now, so I expect to be posting more regularly.
If any good came out of this illness it was discovering Sinus Rinse, the grossest but most effective cold symptom remedy I’ve ever tried.