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  • Halloween commuting in Houston

    As Halloween madness sweeps America, one scary commuter heads for the ICIS Houston office.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-31-2008

  • Black Swans and Benzene

    ICIS aromatics editor Peter Salisbury writes about expecting the unexpected ... Earlier this year I gave a presentation at the ICIS Phenol and Acetone Conference in Budapest. Reception to the paper was frankly mixed, as it tried to link a relatively obscure philosopher/quantative analyst with benzene...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008

  • Jokes and the financial crash - what goes around, comes around

    The Blog's Japanese joke from Friday has been picked up in the Times today, my fellow blogger Paul emails me from the train to Brussels this morning to let me know. Fair enough - I've referenced a few Times articles myself, as readers will know: I like to think of it more as a "homage"...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008

  • Worse than divorce

    "This is worse than a divorce. I've lost half my net worth and I still have a wife," said one shell-shocked share trader at the end of the worst day on the stock market for twenty years. This line came in to me from the US via yahoo messenger at about 3pm on Friday afternoon, allegedly...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-11-2008

  • Lists of lists

    The Blog loves Top 10 lists. We've had the Blog's Top 10 chemical movie scenes , top oil and chemical-themed cocktails , top chemical adverts , top chemical buzzwords , more top chemical movie scenes , top expensive capital hotels , top songs about chemicals , top EPCA parties .... And now ICIS...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-27-2008

  • The Blog celebrates its first birthday - a year of chemicals gossip

    The ICIS Chemicals Confidential blog is today celebrating its first birthday. Born in the maelstrom of the Reed Charity Blogathon on 24 September 2007, it has grown unexpectedly strong and bonny, boasting 257 postings over the course of its first year. The Google Analytics map above shows that it is...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2008

  • Ryder Cup players are model for petchems

    Watching the opening of the Ryder Cup , which kicks off today in Kentucky, sets me wondering about golf and chemicals. Why is golf the sport of the international petrochemical industry? Even as EPCA has axed the Sunday sailing competition this year, and the tennis numbers dwindle away, but the golf event...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008

  • Football and chemical freebies

    I'm sitting in a football stadium on a mild and sunny Saturday afternoon in this cool damp English summer, watching our team in what is only its third game this season as all the expensive new players fail to score a single goal. Watching football in warm weather is a pleasantly new experience for...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008

  • On perfect Houston office lunches and coffee

    When I'm in the ICIS Houston office, one of my favourite places to get lunch is the local Whole Foods Market on Kirby. That is when I'm not queuing up for slabs of beef at the Texas Bar-B-Q or down the nail salon. So I was happy to see that a flagship Whole Foods store had opened last year in...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008

  • Houston fashion goes tropical

    A tropical influence has been evident in ICIS Houston in advance of the scheduled arrival tomorrow of Tropical Storm Edouard. They tell me that dress-down Friday shirts have been tending towards Hawaiian over the long hot Texan summer, and that in last Friday's impromptu office fashion contest, the...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
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