Great expat blog: Uzbekistan Diary, "a year in the life of a North American Journalist working in Uzbekistan." Loads of slice-of-life tidbits you won't get from any news site. Just a sampling from yesterday's entry: An anecdote about how Westerners vs. Central Asians view nepotism, or as they prefer to call it, "strong family values." Plus, we learn from a "be-still-my-heart" gorgeous seminar director from Afghanistan that "the amount of alcoholism that runs through the ex-pat community in Afghanistan is nuts."