Monthly Archives: December 2010

Summary of 2010

Let me share with you a brief recap of my 2010. This was a heavy learning year, to name a few learning experiences: I continued to study French, Toastmasters: I delivered some speeches at Toastmasters, received the CL and ALB … Continue reading

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Impact of an AdWords campaign (cont.)

After my previous post was published, I had a conversation about it and received some comments. These made me think that it could be interesting to comment on the other 2 campaigns to gain more insight about how AdWords works … Continue reading

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Impact of an AdWords campaign

Some months ago, my friend Nacho gave me as a gift 75€ to be used in AdWords campaigns. I set up 3 of them: 2 of them promoting 2 Toastmasters clubs, the third one promoting this blog. According to the … Continue reading

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Big Mac in Aswan

While in Aswan, Egypt, I went to a McDonald’s restaurant. When I finished my meal I went to the counter to ask “What is the price of a single Big Mac?”, “16.5 Egyptian pounds”. I wanted to check The Economist‘s … Continue reading

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New entrants in the commercial aircraft business

In a previous post, I mentioned the new entrants in the large commercial aircraft business (Bombardier CSeries, Embraer, Russian MS-21, Sukhoi SuperJet, Comac C919, Mitsubishi…). Now that the latest market forecasts both from Airbus (Global Market Forecast) and Boeing (Current … Continue reading

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Commercial aircraft market size after discounts (update)

In an older post I already made an analysis of the aircraft discounts related to the published list prices (by the way, Boeing just raised its list prices 5.2% a couple of days ago). In that case, I used the … Continue reading

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Airbus vs. Boeing, comparison of market forecasts

Airbus announced on Monday its latest Global Market Forecast (PDF, 4.6MB) for the 20-year period 2010-2029. Media has already highlighted the main points: ~26,000 new aircraft will be delivered with a market value of ~3,200bn$. Some months ago, Boeing published … Continue reading

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Archaeologists

There is no doubt that archaeologists have done and continue to do a great and exhaustive work in Egypt… (yes, there is a “but” coming) But, while visiting several temples last week, I really got sick of seeing their signature … Continue reading

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The best (and the worst) of the first 100 posts

Today is a symbolic day for the blog: this is its 100th post. I started the blog in February 2010 and about 15 posts ago I thought: “what could I write about for my 100th post?”. A reflection: To be honest, after … Continue reading

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The first bloggers

I found while visiting some tombs in the Valley of the Kings and temples in Luxor that the Egyptian pharaohs were the first bloggers. There are paintings older than the hieroglyphics from Egypt but, unless I am mistaken, we don’t … Continue reading

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