One Week in Pattaya. You’ve Gotta Love This Stuff or WHY Live There?

From PattayaOne.net HEADLINES 29-07-08		Woman badly hurt in Third Road attempted Necklace Snatch.
		Man apparently hangs himself only 7 days after the death of his father.
		Two men arrested following bizarre incident on Jomtien Beach.
		Two Chinese Tourists caught smoking Marijuana in Disco Car Park.

	HEADLINES 28-07-08		Man arrested following attempted theft of Air Con compressors from house owned by Father-in-Law of former Thai Prime Minister.
			Police hunt gang following apparent random shooting spree.
			Lucky House Owner avoids possible death as construction site debris falls on his house.
			Highway Police catch suspected drug dealer.

	HEADLINES 26-07-08		Underage Bar Workers as young as 8 years old found in Sunee Plaza Police Operation.
			Sri Lankan Tourist hurt in road accident on Pattaya Second Road.
			Out-of-control Crane causes drain-cover damage in Soi Kow Noi.
			Man arrested at South Pattaya Restaurant for impersonating a Police Officer.

	HEADLINES 25-07-08		Elvis “leaves the building” as hundreds attend the final cremation of well known Elvis impersonator.
			Heart-broken German cuts his wrist and throat in North Pattaya Convenience Store.
			Pleasure Boat sinks following Engine Room Fire. Crew and passengers rescued unharmed.
			Tourist Police raid Gay Pub in Central Pattaya.

	HEADLINES 24-07-08		Two-Day Anti-Smoking, Drugs, Alcohol, and AIDS Awareness Seminar Commences.
			Police Have Plenty of Reasons as to Why Local Businessman Murdered.
			Two Women Killed in High Speed Car Crash.
			Daytime Shooting Mystery.

	HEADLINES 23-07-08		Man shot dead in front of his family-owned shop at the Niran Grand Condo.
			Epileptic Fit thought to have caused man to drown in village pond.
			18 year old shot after he rescues his younger brother from gang.
			Glue sniffers caught attempting to steal man-hole covers from local school.

	HEADLINES 22-07-08		11,400 Yabba Tablets seized in two related cases in Banglamung.
			86 year old Hong Kong Tourist in critical condition following near-drowning at Larn Island.
			Italian drugged and robbed by woman in Central Pattaya Apartment.
			Suspect caught following theft of 50,000 Baht’s worth of hose attachments from the Royal Garden Plaza.

Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone

Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone

Google has created a Wiki-like encyclopedia that anyone can write for. The formatting is MUCH easier than WIKI creation and apparently running Google Adsense is a possibility. The critics are labeling it a bad move for Google considering they’ve said repeatedly that they aren’t in the ‘content game’. They direct people to others content… Now the game has changed. Knol is short for “knowledge” and they say it is a “unit of knowledge.”

If you write authoritatively on some topic - try a post there and see what happens. Already 33% of knols are in the top 10 for their keywords. Google may adjust that since it’s coming under fire for ranking the knols too high.

Drop Dead Balm and Shin Shiner… Gotta Have ‘Em.

Two funny products being sold by same person - Philip B on Amazon…

Philip B Drop Dead Baume Straight, 6-Ounces

Philip B Shin Shine Finish Mist, 1.85-Ounces

Increase Battery Life with New 3G iPhone, Apple’s Tips

Apple has some great suggestions for helping you save some precious battery life in your new expensive as all hell 3G iPhone… don’t use it for anything it was made for. Really. That’s their solution to extending your battery life. These eleven tips come straight from Apple… (and my comments italicized)

Apple’s New 3G iPhone battery life increasers:

• Turn off 3G. Why buy the new iPhone WITH 3G then?
• Minimize use of location services. Go back to using maps and telephone directories.
• Fetch new data less frequently. Instead of surfing the web for 30 mins, try to make it just 15. You’ll save more battery.
• Turn off push mail. You don’t really want to be notified of all email coming in. Oh wait, is that why you BOUGHT the iPhone… oh. Well, just turn it off - the battery lasts longer that way.
• Auto-check fewer email accounts. Rearrange your whole incoming email scheme to include just 1 or 2 email accounts and then you’ll have more battery! Never mind that you have 3 companies and 16 email accounts you need to keep separate.
• Minimize use of third-party applications. Don’t visit our apps stores because apps drain batteries. You want longer battery life, right?
• Turn off Wi-Fi.
• Turn off Bluetooth
• Use Airplane Mode in low- or no-coverage areas
• Adjust brightness
• Turn off EQ

What the hell is left?

Basically, Apple is saying, ‘Don’t use the iPhone because we’re too damn dumb to listen to what every mobile phone user has been saying for over a decade about every mobile phone that was ever made…”

WE NEED THE BATTERY
TO LAST AT LEAST A WEEK!!

Can you do that?

You can give me GPS so I know where I am in the middle of a desert. You can give me broadband WIFI access invisibly through the air and yet you can’t make the battery in my phone another 2.34 square inches larger so I can use it for a week taking liberal advantage of all the outrageously priced features I PAID FOR.

You know?

What IS this game?

I’ll buy an Apple iPhone when their CEO and all officers of the corp. pull their fat heads out of their sphincters.

Here Apple is basically telling you that you don’t need all the features you just paid for in their iPhone.

If you want to save battery buy one of these phones - they have none of the advanced features of the iPhone - but they’ve got battery life to spare…

from www.oxfam.org.uk

from www.mobilitywatch.com

Is Your Thai Tee-Rak Capable of Killing You?

3 Thai girls 30 and under are prime suspects in the death of a Dutch man in Pattaya. Apparently the man took a cell phone from one of them, in an attempt to keep her from going back to the bar to work.

She hit him in the head with a metal pipe and then stabbed him in the throat. He died in the restroom. They set his house on fire.

If you go to the site that had the story: http://www.pattayaone.net/news_09_07_51.html you’ll see the photos of these girls.

Don’t they look like any other Thai girl you see on the streets here? Might you date one of these girls at some point? Are you dating one NOW? Thais are different than westerners. We all know that. But, where they’re remarkably different is when they get upset. They seem to lose all common sense once they go over the edge. They are completely irrational and incapable of thinking at that point. They are what we would say in the states, momentarily insane. They really are. How could a guy taking a phone from someone lead to a metal pipe to the head and a “sword” through the neck? (which I think they meant, knife as that what was in the photo.)

I’ve noticed it a lot over the years - when Thais’ flip - they flip the hell out. They are inconsolable and they seem incapable of stopping their tirade until someone is dead.

Just another reason to avoid bar girls and ladyboys in the sex-tourist areas. Many of them are on drugs. Many of them think violence is acceptable. You’ve seen like I have the number of tourists being beat up and killed lately. Sure, maybe we’re hearing about it more - but that doesn’t negate the high levels. It’s happening. It’s happening often.