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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
Darkness and neglect at Le Balmoral

On the way to dinner at Le Saint-Benoit, we pass the dark and shuttered hulk of the former Balmoral Hotel, looming darkly over the bay. This was a haven to past generations from Shell, Integra and then ICIS, famed for its 1950s wallpaper and candlewick bedspreads and fondly referred to as the "Immoral"...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
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
Sleepless in Seattle

Seattle, Washington, USA was the venue for the big fertilizer conference of The Fertilizer Institute ( TFI ) last week, and three of the ICIS fertilizer team made the long trip there from Houston and London. A trip memorable for its coffee and the unusual contents of its hotel minibars, I understand...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
ICIS Children say Yes to Physics

There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the UK about the lack of students taking sciences, particularly physics . But ICIS offspring are bucking the trend in a truly cavalier fashion. After this summer's exam successes, we have a total haul of FOUR physics students amongst ICIS children. We...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008
Fusion - new aromatics broker

It's all change in the small world of European aromatics brokers. Tom Smit, formerly of Petrochemical Brokerage (PCB), has set up a new chemicals broking firm called Fusion. Launched on 1 August 2008, the new broking team comprises Smit, plus two brokers in the US and one in Asia, he told Peter Salisbury...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008
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
Reed Business Information on Dutch satirical news site

Imagine my astonishment when this Dutch joke article on the sale of our own Reed Business Information (parent company of ICIS) popped out of Google this afternoon. It is from the website 925people.nl (nine to five, gettit?) and titled: " Te Koop, zgan: Reed Business Information, met aantrekkelijke...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-30-2008

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