Archive Now Available

Due to numerous requests (via some very ingenious methods of contact) the archive postings of my blog are now available for reading. 


Best Regards


Muscat Jet Driver

Thank You...

This blog and it's author have lost their way somewhat, over the past six months or so. 
When it gets to that point, we have to weigh up the pros and cons of continuing something like this, and having done so, I have decided that it is time to close this blog down. 

Thank you all for your readership, patience and input over the past three years. 


With best regards


Muscat Jet Driver

Sweet Infestation

Amusing, or maybe sadly a classic example of the "I couldn't be arsed to do any quality control on this." attitude within the region.

Sigh!

Epic Fail...

While I understand the goodness involved in getting out there and walking around in the name of beating a disease......I could not help but smile when I saw this, as part of a very large group of soldiers in the battle against diabetes, came with their spouses and kids for a burger, fries and ice-cream fuelled extravaganza! 


Time to put my helmet on, I suppose.


JD

Happy Birthday!...to me.

The Jet Driver blog turned a whopping three years old last week. 

Thank you all so very much for your comments, your quotes and your feedback throughout this time.
Without you, this is not a blog - it's just a mad-man having a rant in the desert!


JD

Journalists in Muscat

My loyal and valued readers.

I have been perusing those bastions of the free-press "The Week" and "Y!" magazine over the past fortnight, and while the sensational scoops contained within are of incontrovertible benefit to this ginormous conurbation, I wanted to particularly laud the indubitably staggering thesaurus skills of our sub-continental newshounds. 

That is why, without further ado, I am naming Saturday, 29th of October "International Write Like An Indian Journalist Day".

So let's waylay our readers with a plethora of Webster-sourced vocabulary. Who knows, maybe we will uncover a glut of penmen to further add to the existing hoard of wordsmiths downtown.

JD

Oman Space Program Part 3

Since its inception two years ago, the Omani Space Program has suffered numerous setbacks. The early demise of Baisa Bus One and a training accident in Al Khoudh which literally brought the program to its knees, has resulted in very damaging press for section head Nasser Bin Tumoon and chief engineer George Alexander Gupta ('from Kerala, sir') and ultimately for the Omani Space Program on the whole.


Numerous investment prospects from both the public and private sector have all but dried up in the wake of the incidents from last year, but a glimmer of funding hope has emerged, with a new joint venture.
The Oman Space Program has teamed up local businessman Ahmed Al Shady to give entrepreneurs a chance to hedge their investment bets: by furnishing them a chance to buy their very own planet.

Oman Solar Systems is now open for business, selling a whole range of intergalactic property investment opportunities including small asteroids, m-class planets, stars and, for the more affluent, entire galaxies. 

With the money gleaned from planetary sales, the company will then provide transport using exploration ships, piloted by space-cadets from the beleaguered Omani program. 

The main investments for sale, however, are plans for a new five-thousand apartment and villa complex with eight golf-courses, twenty-two hotels and ninety restaurants called Blue Planet.

They tell me that it is going to be like nothing the universe has ever seen, so you had  better get your checkbooks out now!