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Perhaps this integrated approach to image management has its downside. I was using my newly acquired skills with the Lightroom Adjustment Brush to try “dodging” an over-exposed portion of a picture. Without any warning the image portion went completely black and Lightroom hung. It was unresponsive to… Read full story >>>

The official symbols for Thailand’s motion picture ratings system enacted this year are starting to come into use. They are being used on movie posters, ads, cinema websites and are flashed on a title card before the start of the main feature. The symbols are … Read full story >>>

I mentioned in my last blog about visiting the Index light display which is just around the corner from our house. I thought I should share a few photos from that visit. If any of the local readers out there have any suggestions of places to visit for me … Read full story >>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/technology/internet/14virus.html Here’s another reason I won’t use social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Along with the fact they have severe privacy challenges, now there is malware that targets their users. I don’t have time for this! Read full story >>>

Another Election is Coming Originally uploaded by Ian Fuller As BKK Photographer spotted the first truck with election campaign posters, it reminded me that the last elections for the district councils as well as the metropolitan council were already quite some time ago. In fact, they were in 2006, so the four… Read full story >>>

Thailand Writers Needed – Your Own eBooks is a post from my: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse. Thailand Writers Needed – Your Own eBooks is a post from my: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse. Thailand based writers needed. Create your own ebooks and sell … Read full story >>>

The Nation in an editorial: Cambodia’s royal pardon, granted to the convicted Thai “spy” so swiftly after a Phnom Penh court sentenced him to seven years in prison, seemed as politically motivated as the man’s arrest itself, and it has … Read full story >>>

The country of course is still reeling from the shock defeat to Malaysia that meant the exit of the football team (male) from the SEA Games – when Thailand had expected to continue its run of victories in the tournament. The Thais needed just a draw against a Malaysian team that had already been… Read full story >>>

Further evidence of the incompetence of the sleazy and repressive Abhisit regime comes with a speech from president and chief of the Siam Cement Group Kan Trakulhoon , urging the government actually to do something in support of the so-called Thai Khem Kaeng campaign. To date, only 20 billion baht has been spent … Read full story >>>

This is a blog only In the spirit of ‘well just fancy that’ comes the news that some of us poor Brits living over here in Thailand are panicking a bit because those who distribute social security payments back home are blocking payments to people essentially living overseas. So step-… Read full story >>>

UPDATE – whoops, my mistake, didn’t mean this post to end up here. Is entry from my early Posterous experimenting over here , where it looks a lot smarter and easier on the eye. Global By Country By Category Top Sites in … Read full story >>>

Lately even the pro-establishment news website TAN was calling for the sacking of the ICT minister : “Almost one year as the ICT minister, Ranongrak Suwanchawee has failed to show the public any tangible achievements but a series of failed … Read full story >>>

A few weeks ago at the FCCT, Lt Gen Pichet Wisaijorn, 4th Army Regional Commander was asked about the role of the military in protecting Buddhist temples in the Deep South, but also about protecting mosques. He said (going from memory and paraphrasing) that they don’t protect… Read full story >>>

The lack of denials have been noticeable, but clearly seems an admission as the Bangkok Post reports: However, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya’s secretary Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said, Mr Sivarak had never said he handed any documents regarding Thaksin’s flight schedule to Thai authorities.”I Read full story >>>