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Some new mixed stuff this month to get a step ahead… They look pretty normal but they are a big breakthrough in glasses! This glasses can adjust lenses by pressing a little button. Basically the idea existed a few years ago but this are now the first… Read full story >>>

I have recently been watching some early episodes of the series Stargate SG1 that was shown at the end of the last century. The recurrent theme of that series (in which the US army arrogates to itself a star-spanning artifact with a view to bolstering its role as global hegemon) … Read full story >>>

I wonder when top of the market DSLR full-size sensor cameras will have built-in 3G mobile phone technology. I suppose it would make the camera body bigger and you have the problem of the phone using the same battery resource… Read full story >>>

A couple of days ago I read an article on  TechCrunch  about a newly released social travel planner described as a 'Killer domain for a Social Planner With Some Potential'. As it says on their website:    Of course, there are lots of… Read full story >>>

600 Posts and 601 Unique Visitors for Friday – Coincidence? is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ , a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse I’ve had this idea for a while that Google metes out visits according to some prescribed traffic numbers. It … Read full story >>>

ThaiPulse Blog Theme Change is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ , a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Just changed this theme again – did you notice? While the last one did what I wanted for the most part, this new theme has a lot of things… Read full story >>>

Last night there was a UDD rally at Imperial Lad Phao. When I arrived at 3pm there were about 500 people in attendance. The crowd continued to grow throughout the night. A large TV was set up just inside the exit from the back parking garage. I… Read full story >>>

3rd day of Reds p;us local Klong Toey folks facing the Thai army at this location… 3 days of burning tires…very dangerous, at least 10 people wounded here today by sniper fire ( single shots fired at intervals by a few marksmen)… Activities includes loading tires … Read full story >>>

          UDD International Spokesman Sean Boonpracong                 The UDD is ready to enter into negotiations with the Abhisit government.  The UDD has a single condition, that the United Nations act as a mediator in reconciliation talks…. Read full story >>>

UPDATE (15-16 May 2010) To much has happened and I’m not in the frame of mind to write any coherent article, so here are some news reports and accounts of events in the past two days (15-16 May) that are Read full story >>>

HRW pass on their latest statement: The Thai government should immediately revoke the designation of neighborhood areas as “live fire zones” that might be used to justify the unnecessary and unlawful use of lethal force, Human Rights Watch said today….By setting out these ‘live fire zones’, the Thai authorities are… Read full story >>>

Have posted this map before, but as Richard Barrow constantly updates it will post again. It shows you where the violence is taking place in Bangkok…. Read full story >>>

Thai Rath reports that the Democrat’s coalition partners have been meeting. At first, they decided that dissolving parliament was not the answer (ทางแกนนำพรรคร่วมรัฐบาลได้มีการหารือร่วมกันตลอด โดยเห็นว่าจากเดิมที่มองว่าการยุบสภาไม่ใช่ทา… Read full story >>>

Thailand Blog is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ , a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Have you thought about starting a Thailand blog? Blogging in Thailand is something a lot of expats think about, and some do. Some think fame awaits, others, … Read full story >>>

M.R. Sukhumbhand Baripatra, governor of Bangkok and a senior member of the ruling Democrat Party, has challenged anyone who says Thailand is now a “failed state.” He told Matichon in an interview: “There is apparently a misunderstanding when you say Thailand is a failed state. All the mechanisms of a normal… Read full story >>>

This blog isn’t dead, it is just getting used to sharing the attention with another member of the family. Once all settles down Jonny Foreigner will back to normal again, for now he’s hugging his tear-soaked pillow tightly, reflecting the days as an only-child blog. Social media … Read full story >>>

Thai Takes By PHILIP GOLINGAI AT AROUND 3am on Jan 15, an M79 grenade was fired into the compound of the Thai Army headquarters in Bangkok, landing near the office of Army chief General Anupong Paochinda. The Thai authorities kept silent about the attack until the… Read full story >>>

Thailand iPhone Users – Survey Going Well is a post from: ThaiPulse.com/blog/ , a Thailand focused website. ©2009-2010 ThaiPulse Not as well as I hoped but we have 11 iPhone users that filled out the survey. If you use an iPhone in Thailand whether you live here or… Read full story >>>

I just got an SMS message over my AIS phone that said: AIS 3G AirCard 3,290.- รับฟรีเน็ตทั่วไทย 300ชม. ที่AIS Shopกดฟรี*14920 My wife called the *14920 number for information. It said it was 3,290 baht for 300 hours.  Ten hours per day – that’s enough for me. I’d go for that price. It didn’t… Read full story >>>

I use AIS EDGE connections from my mobile phone connected to my computer. I get decent speeds – 25kBps and it’s relatively cheap at 49 baht per day. It’s pretty stable, probably even more stable than ADSL lines that I’ve used. It rarely goes offline, and when it does, … Read full story >>>

When thaksin said in a phone-in to PT members that the single party parliament would ensure his return to the country and, implicitly, that they should not afraid to show they are his supporters and when Chavalit talked about reconciliation and forgiveness. Everything looks fine but… Read full story >>>

A jovial look at ways to snuff it in Thailand. C Cake Thai cake can be the icing on top of what can be a pretty awful diet. Many a falang talk of the Thai diet as a healthy one, which it often is, yet, day to day, much of it… Read full story >>>

Bumper stickers are us… Bumper stickers in Thai land make for an interesting language lesson and a good way to pass time when you’re caught in traffic. Apart from the typical เมา ไม่ ขับ (mao mai khap) “Don’t Drink and Drive” and เรา รัก ในห ลวง (rao rak nai luang) “We Love… Read full story >>>

The new RSS feed for BP after the move is http://us.asiancorrespondent.com/rss-feeds/?b=BangkokPundit or RSS . Read full story >>>

I’m now on Google Wave which I’m pretty chuffed about as it is brand-spankingly new, will doubtless become very important and, for now at least, it’s something new for me to geek out on and get to grips with. As we’re still … Read full story >>>

I’ve been working on a project that will allow anyone with a website focused on Thailand to make some $. The goal is that I can make you more than Adsense does, so people will take all these ridiculous Adsense ads from their sites. (Me… Read full story >>>

If you are having a baby anytime soon, you’ll be presented with the choice of extracting blood from the ambilican cord at the time of birth.  Most likely though, you’ll only be presented with the option of private cord blood banking as this is where the money is made… Read full story >>>

I haven’t blogged for a few days; I have been very busy and had hardly any spare time. There have been many things I wanted to do but haven’t been able too. I want to get back to the Sunee Grand Hotel and take some more pictures of the health and fitness centre … Read full story >>>

BBC : Thailand has sent heavily-armed troops to reinforce positions along the Burma border after an influx of ethnic Karen refugees fleeing an army offensive. More than 4,000 people have fled Burma for Thailand in the largest influx of refugees in the area for a decade. BP : Can’t see any other … Read full story >>>

Thais are only human like the rest of us, and of course it matters. He is probably extremely angry inside and quite possibly harbouring thoughts of violence towards you. Read full story >>>

In a footnote to the paper The Isan up to its integration into the Siamese state (in: Regions and National Integration in Thailand, 1892-1992 ) by Volker Grabowsky the author gives the etymology and history of the term Isan (อีสาน) for the northeastern part of Thailand. “Isan” derives … Read full story >>>

“iRAP RIDER” from King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok wins The TPA Robot competition. (manager.co.th) More Thailand pictures can be found at www.ThaiPhotoBlogs.com .

Last week I used some of WikiMapia’s marked-up satellite imagery to point to Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence on University Avenue in Yangon. Since then I have been playing around with the possibilities of this technology and thought I would highlight a few … Read full story >>>

Coming Soon , the directorial debut by Shutter and Alone screenwriter Sopon Sukdapisit, will make its North American premiere at Another Hole in the Head in San Francisco. Also simply Holehead, it’s a horror, sci-fi and fantasy genre film rest put on from … Read full story >>>

Back in 1998, when I was thirteen years old, it was the time I started to become a teenager and when I started to care more about myself and how I looked. Also, I started to feel love for the first time which is a normal thing for most teenagers around the world. …

Hands up if you’ve ever heard of Technorati ? If you read blogs, and by reading this entry your answer is ‘yes’, then Technorati is a site you should look at. If you blog, then you should definitely head  there . Technorati is a website which gives order to the (often) chaotic, messy… Read full story >>>

Originally scheduled to take place at the end of this month, Bangkok’s 1st World Comedy Film Festival is now set for June 10 to 16, 2009. The festival website is back up but is still under construction, so there’s no details yet about the program. Organized by the Tourism … Read full story >>>