[Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

[Kieren Diment]

On 12/02/2010, at 12:03 AM, James Laver wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:13:15PM +1100, Kieren Diment wrote:
>> 
>> The job is in an absolutely beautiful part of the world with great food and just about the most benign weather you could possibly imagine by the way.
> 
> Albeit under an antiquated religious system with ridiculous laws that prop up racism (you're decidedly not Malaysian), sexism (nearly as bad as Afghanistan)  and where homosexuality is illegal (punishable by death in some parts of the country)? At least you could probably bribe your way out of a trumped up 
> crime if the internet is being reliably informed today.

Everywhere with nice weather has its down side unfortunately.  In many cases it's things like cyclones and earthquakes.  In this case it's a somewhat odd political situation.  On an almost-totally-unrelated note did you know that the New Internationalist Magazine is  a Perl shop.  They write lots of stuff about the effects post-colonialisation on nation states ;)  http://www.newint.org/columns/country/2009/03/01/malaysia/