Egypt trip

Allright my trip now over. People in Egypt are very warm and nice. The traffic in Cairo is less than great, and for a westerner hard to understand how it all works. It's easy to understand though why the cars are banged up a little bit more than overhere. One stat that struck me, egyptians have 25%-30% of their net worth in their car. Duties on cars in Egypt are huge, so for example a passat, base price of 30k CDN in Egypt will be 60K CDN, a huge price diff. The egyptian food is absolutely fabulous. On my last night we went to an egyptian resto, and it's too bad I can't eat more. I was rolling when I got out. The bread pudding was the last thing I ate, and it's amazingly good. One last thing, the itworx dudes seem to enjoy sweets more than anybody I've ever met. They talk about how they love sweets, let me tell ya they sure put their cash where their mouth is when desert is around. I want to say a big thank you to the itworx team, who made me feel welcome and took care of me like family while down the country of the pyramids!

Lastly but not least Ahmed, the man who is faster than his shadow with e-mails. He actually confessed to not being able when awake to keep from checking is e-mail less often than every half hour. Since the guy doesn't sleep, that means he checks e-mails at least 48times a day!!! I check e-mails often, but Ahmed is addicted to e-mails. Worst he doesn't even have a crackberry, he does this from a desktop, and a smart phone. 

Here we have, left to right, Shérif, human resource manager, and Wael the big cheese, ie, CEO, and the fellow on the right I didn't get a chance to meet! 

Hello all, as some of you might know already. I'm in Egypt for a few days visiting a partner of Macadamian. ItWorx and Macadamian work together to bring more for less for our customers. This year is the year, I decided to pay them a visit, to see the installations, and get the opportunity to meet with the people we're in communication with on a daily basis. 

From the ground floor looking in the atreum inside ItWorx building. Behind me are the workstations. 

The atrium from down below in ItWorx's buiding. 

Mona Macadamian's engagement manager at Itworx, Mohamed nertec's man in Egypt, and Fady APCS dude! 

APCS Barra team lead over at ItWorx, the one and only Fady, teamed up with Sylvain here at Macadamian. 

A picture of Walid responsible for the secret project team at ItWorx, he worked with Francis. 

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Querying the blogosphere

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Blackberry Blog: Dilbert on BlackBerry: Part II,III & IV:

Comment: Well now BB is really mainstream...But I didn't find the jokes funny...too bad!