Peter Casier
@petercasier
Belgian expat in Italy
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About me
Belgian
Lives in Rome, Italy
Registration: 28 January 2007
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Any aid workers, development workers amongst you expats? by petercasier
Hi, In my spare time I am volunteering for AidWorkers.net, an online repository/forum/knowledge base for those working or interested in humanitarian issues, where I keep their aidworkers blogroll up to date. We list blogs from aidworkers, and ...
Hi Karen, Have a look on this post, you will find several volunteering links there: http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2006/04/rumble-so-you-want-to-be-aidworker-hey.html Read More
Any aid workers, development workers amongst you expats? by petercasier
Hi, In my spare time I am volunteering for AidWorkers.net, an online repository/forum/knowledge base for those working or interested in humanitarian issues, where I keep their aidworkers blogroll up to date. We list blogs from aidworkers, and ...
What is your best suggestion, for expats who are planning to go to Afghanistan for work? Any suggestions, advice, Tips are welcome.The situation is so volatile, it really depends who you will work for, and where you will live... quite a bit of tips ... Read More
RSS - what it is and what it can do for you.
On my blog, I get regularly questions about RSS, what it is, and how it could be best used. Similarly, I think bloggers don't use RSS to its fullest. In this post I explained the what's and the how's in plain English. :) Enjoy.. Peter Read More
Your worst mistakes speaking a foreign language by Pat
I guess I has happened to you all. You are talking in a foreign language, convinced that what you are saying is particularly clever. Yet everybody starts laughing. You repeat, repeat and again, making it worse and worse... Then you realise you have ...
I once told an Italian he had "pig headed attitude". He understood he had "the head of a pig". Did not help the discussion :rolleyes: Read More
Any aid workers, development workers amongst you expats?
Hi, In my spare time I am volunteering for AidWorkers.net, an online repository/forum/knowledge base for those working or interested in humanitarian issues, where I keep their aidworkers blogroll up to date. We list blogs from aidworkers, and ... Read More
What makes an expat want to stay in Italy?? by lucia
This may sound like a strange question but I think there are a lot of people out there interested in our answers. So I welcome both expats and non expats to indulge! Thanks.www.living-italy.blogspot.com
I have been living here for two years. I can not remember how many other countries I have lived in before, but Italy is special. I like the people, the mentality of "living life". I like the weather (for 9 months in the year). I love the food. I ... Read More
What do you do for a living? by NicoleB
If you don't mind me asking ;) Do you work or are you with your Spouse? If you are with your Spouse do you so any sort of work (except for what most people don't call work...) I am traveling with my husband and don't work (just the usual ;) ). I ...
I am an humanitarian aid worker with one of the UN agencies. As such, I am a "serial" expat. Since 1994, I lived or worked in, and travelled through 150+ countries. For about 10 years I lived out of a bag. Three days in Cambodia, an overnight in ... Read More
Living in Dubai with 2750 dhs per month by amara11
Hi All, Im from India, Recently i got an offer in Dubai with 2750dhs per month on Probation and 3000dhs after Confirmation on my employment.. Company provides accomodataion and local transportation.. But im in dark side to accept the offer as ...
It really depends what type of job they are offering you. It looks, though, that the salary is low to sustain yourself. Dubai is a very expensive place to live, even though the salary might look higher than where you currently live. Peter Read More
Which free tools do you use daily for your blog? by petercasier
The regular bloggers use a variety of tools to either blog, or manage their blog. What are those? Which ones do you use the most, which ones can you recommend? I use: - Picasa picture editing tool (mostly to resize and compress pictures before ...
I guess it would be export then. I usually have to crop, but with my new Baby the pics are still way too big for my blogNicole, Yes, cropping is ok, if you want to cut the picture, but if you still want to publish the picture as a whole, 'export' ... Read More
Which free tools do you use daily for your blog? by petercasier
The regular bloggers use a variety of tools to either blog, or manage their blog. What are those? Which ones do you use the most, which ones can you recommend? I use: - Picasa picture editing tool (mostly to resize and compress pictures before ...
I'm looking since 2 years now to find the resize tool in PicasaThere are two steps in resizing I use in Picasa (version 3): - the cropping function - the export function (where it lets you define the quality you want and the largest pixel size ... Read More
Which free tools do you use daily for your blog?
The regular bloggers use a variety of tools to either blog, or manage their blog. What are those? Which ones do you use the most, which ones can you recommend? I use: - Picasa picture editing tool (mostly to resize and compress pictures before ... Read More
What is your experience with Blog directories? by petercasier
Hi All, In the process of publishing my blog, and as an absolute newbie to the world of blogging, I looked for good blog directories to 'make my blog public' in the past 2 months. Apparently there are many, many directories, with all kinds of ...
How is the comment ratio compared with the clicks?Far less! I would think maybe 5 comments per day. P. Read More
Alcohol and driving... by petercasier
They have become very strict in the UAE on alcohol and driving. If any trace of alcohol is found, even if you have not been involved in an accident, you're in trouble... Real trouble!
The zero-tolerance was always the case. They have become much more severe on the implementation of this law, that is the difference... p. Read More
Mettre des liens vers un site dans un texte by Emilie76
Bonjour aux spécialistes du blog! Je suis en train de me casser la tête à chercher comment créer un lien vers un site ou article dans un texte sur over-blog. Je ne sais pas vraiment comment ça s'appelle mais l'idée serait du style: plus d'infos ...
Je suis en train de me casser la tête à chercher comment créer un lien vers un site ou article dans un texte sur over-blog.Je ne connais pas over-blog, mais s'il y a un moyen d'aller en mode "HTML", tu peux mettre le liens: Textecommetuveux les ... Read More
Increase your audience with a social bookmarking sites by Julien
Have you ever used del.icio.us, digg, blogmarks, stumbleupon, ecto? (and many others) They are another way to get trafic. Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online.In order to increase ...
See also this post on expat-blog to show the role of social bookmarking... By the way, I use several plug ins now, available at: www.addthis.com www.addtoany.com They let you "social bookmark" posts on several sites. Maybe one day, there will be ... Read More