Ieuan Dolby

About Ieuan Dolby

Ieuan Dolby, from Scotland is an Engineering Officer in the Merchant Navy. He has been travelling the world for 15yrs on an endless tour of cultural diversification. Currently based in Singapore he writes various articles for magazines and newspapers and is working on a marine glossary. ieuandolby@lycos.com

Surviving Retirement

The financial security umbrella that most wage earners would like to shelter under after retirement is now leaking very badly indeed! Money savvy experts block up news channels and advertisement spaces with offers of transforming the average citizen...
Date Posted: April 03, 2005

Open Your Eyes People

People, people, people! Dear average ordinary citizens of this world. Open your eyes and look around, can’t you see that we are destroying the planet under our feet and thus ultimately all life who live on it.I used to have one black spot that...
Date Posted: April 03, 2005

The Online Advertising Scandal

The World Wide Web was an enormous step for mankind, a step not seen since Neil Armstrong sullied the surface of the moon. The idea behind the WWW came across as a veritable information highway where documents, data and info could be rapidly sent...
Date Posted: April 03, 2005

Those Mobile Phone Wielding Drivers

A taxi driver in Singapore recently drove his taxi headfirst into a rather deluxe condominium swimming pool! At the subsequent court case the driver was fully exonerated from any blame on the grounds that it was raining heavily at the time of the...
Date Posted: April 03, 2005

The Handbag

The first sentence of this article….I have always been fascinated by handbags. They remain to the average man a complete mystery: one whose depth knows no bounds.
Date Posted: April 03, 2005

The Lost Art of Hand Writing

For a couple of years now I have used a computer for everything from writing articles, to communicate, to playing games and to printing addresses onto envelopes.
Date Posted: April 03, 2005

The Training Baby

My kid is only 6months old, yet he has taught me more than I have ever learnt in the last ten years of supposed life’s experience. It is amazing really, that one so young can teach so much, that a ball of squeaking immaturity can give and...
Date Posted: April 03, 2005

Insurance and The Engineer

The world is no longer right when the two words, Engineer and Insurance are used together, side by side in a conversation. Individually they are words that justify their use, with their own explanations and own meanings as those that compile...
Date Posted: January 08, 2004

The Rate of Change

There have been many discussions and grumblings in the Western world about the ever increasing pace of change and the ability of the brain to accept it.
Date Posted: January 08, 2004

The Art of Worrying

I am worried. I have been biting my nails for weeks and now there is not much left (skin doesn’t taste very good) on my hands and feet to chew on.
Date Posted: January 08, 2004
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