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Talking in Abu Dhabi  posted on March 9, 2010

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That's me, trying out the washing stand at the giant new Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi. You're supposed to wash many parts of your body (mouth, nose, forehead, hands, arms, etc) three times each, and then splash more on the top of your head. Our guide was very patient with me.

Rupert Murdoch will open this conference with a keynote in a few hours. I'll be talking about managing the data avalanche after dinner. The question now: Work on speech... or sleep?


I visited the mosque with two former BusinessWeek colleagues, Joyce Barnathan and Manjeet Kripalani. (Incidentally, I tried to upload these photos to Flickr, but saw that the site is blocked in the Arab Emirates.)

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@MichaelPizzo My pleasure. Another book u might like is Afterthought by James Bailey. Not new, but puts data in context of sci/math history

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