I recently noticed that the city I live, Chiang Mai, was listed as the number five best city in the world, 2009, by Travel and Leisure.
Actually, I agree Chiang Mai is a great city to live, that is why I live here, of course. The food is amazingly good. The weather is great. The [...]
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Today I woke up late, around 4:30pm. After catching up on my Internet reading, I decided to go for a swim. I looked out the window of the 17th floor, and it was gloomy with heavy dark clouds approaching, so I wondered to myself if I would be able to swim.
When I [...]
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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California [...]
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Adding beauty and color to the blog, here is a video I made, Sakura-Iro ni Somaru Tomoko. “Sakura-Iro ni Somaru Tomoko” translates from Japanese, literally, to “Tomoko Who is Dyed Pink“, or more a more poetic translation, “Tomoko Covered in Pink Flowers.”
This video is from Hanami 2007, the amazingly beautiful Japanese celebration of viewing the [...]
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This is an interesting story for folks who work abroad or wish to work in Thailand. In addition, folks who are interested in OWASP might find this post interesting.
I started the OWASP Thailand Chapter on 8 May 2008 and I called for a someone to replace me as chapter leader on 16 January 2009. One [...]
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This post is a bit off our normal topics; however, it should be of interest to just about everyone who administers a web site.
Google sitemaps have an ‘Update Frequency’ (Change Frequency) parameter that informs GoogleBot how often a web page is updated. For example, a blog homepage may be updated as often as ‘Daily’ while [...]
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It is great to relax and just enjoy the good life in Northern Thailand. As I read so many blog posts and technology articles by people who just don’t have a clue about what they are talking about, I am reminded of a passage by one of the world’s great writers Umberto Eco.
Foucault’s Pendulum was [...]
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I am sure everyone has read the big news in Thailand. Anti-government protesters have shut down the two main airports in Thailand for around 5 days, leaving the country in a state of chaos. The current political crisis has been ongoing for a number of years and there is no possible end in sight.
The situation [...]
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