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@Strong Eagle You are right - it isn't worth less. On the other hand, some regions have a repuation for high rates, and the first thing a potential client will say is "I can't pay Swizterland rates", for example (and this is when referring to other European countries). Sometimes it's good to be a bi...

OK, thanks for the good advice. I will have a think about expenses arrangements, but I don't think I'll be travelling there so often so maybe it can be absorbed, or billed back to the firm and they can take care of it.

Hi Beppi OK. For simplicity's sake, let's assume I do want the job (for I do), and also that I will be able to sort the billing side of things (as I am not a freelancer myself, and will not be working in Malaysia, it was just simpler than going into detail about consultancy arrangements). I was more...

I was wondering if anybody has any experience with adjusting his or her freelance rates for work in Malaysia? A project I was quoting for is now going through a Malaysian company and so I have a new demand for a rate card. I am afraid I have no experience there at all (not even arrived in the region...

You're not a subscriber to the tsunami conspiracy theory are you.....

@sundamorningstaple No I was barking up completely the wrong tree. That looks pretty ropey, I hope you're recovered. *makes mental note to research healthcare options in Singapore* @JR8 It was my understanding that cronyism (which is how I think it is spelt) usually refers to an old-boys-club type s...

Python Job Interview is a classic!

Clement Freud tells an oldie but a goldie - unbeatable delivery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHOXiP9O_Y

RIP

I am not going to indulge in these Caulkin-Candy style interchanges where each line gets replied to separately; it's a unfamiliar way of writing to those of us not accustomed to interrupting someone after every sentence. This racism thing is so completely off-topic from what we were originally talki...

Hold up. When I said I could not make head or tail of your "traits in peoples" point, I did not mean "continue writing about it like nothing's happened". You've got a bee on your bonnet about something or other, it's just not clear. If you are trying to say that because a group of people might be mo...

How do you know it is pompous, if you don't know what it means? Anyway, I thought you said earlier that you weren't going to be personal. Quasi-literal because there is a similar phrase in English which translates to roughly the same thing, but uses the word "sound" instead of tone, because I think ...

Any golfers? Superb Vijay Singh shot across water (it's a par 3):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDLPFeKyCk

Are you a racist as well?

Kanecha wrote:Thanks guys for your 'heart warming' responses! I was dumb enough to think that JR8 was genuinely advising

JR8 seems a bit nasty, don't let it get to you.

JR8 wrote:There is no water.

Sorry?

The quasi-literal translation is "it's the sound that makes the music"

I.e. it is not what you say, but how you say it, that matters.