Bangkok Guru

If you’re one of the many farang men living outside Thailand with a Thai missus, you probably know that keeping her happy in Farangland is no easy task unless she has a Western education or understands the culture well enough.
Good news though. Things have just got a bit easier thanks to the internet. Thai television [...]

If you’re in Bangkok and, like many of us, usually have bugger all to do at weekends during the day, perhaps this weekend you might like to pass those boring hours before sunset by paying a visit to Thailand Mobile Expo 2008 currently held in Queen Sirikit Centre. Bangkok’s biggest mobile show started yesterday and [...]

By far the best place to go in Bangkok for any sort of computer-related products is the five-storey Pantip Plaza in Pratu Nam, near the impressive Central World shopping mall. Prices are predictably cheap and the range rather extensive, though not that many vendors speak an awful lot of English.
The Plaza houses hundreds of hardware [...]

Before moving into my current apartment, I did the usual thing by asking the landlady about everything including the internet connection that would serve as my gateway to the online world for at least six months to come. She said it’s a high speed connection running at an impressive 18mbps and shared by all the [...]

It’s quite a list but with some really worthwhile podcasts so check it out!
- Adam and Joe: Weekly highlights from Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish’s show at the Big British Castle.
- Best of Chris Moyles Enhanced: Weekly highlights from the award-winning Chris Moyles breakfast show.
- The Bottom Line with Evan Davis: Insights into business from [...]