Archive for October, 2006

Trip to Chiang Rai

By fn1, 22. October 2006, 15:42 o'clock
Sawsadee Khrap Can’t show you all the pictures here on the blog, I’ll try to get them in the Gallery. but here are some highlights. First we stopped at a Resort, Jarim Garden, for lunch before getting to Chiang Rai. Parrot-JarimGarden Bridge-JarimGarden KingMengRaiMemorial Wow, there they had this beautiful parrot and the bridge Tasanai took a picrure of last year. His pic is much better than this one. About 10KM outside of Chiang Rai is Wat Rong Khun – a great gleaming white new Wat, these were taken in the afternoon sun and suffer from straight down lighting. – Arriving in Chiang Rai, you first see the King Mehgrai Memorial: We went to several Wats here but those pics will wait for the Gallery. WatRongKhun1 WatRongKhun2 WatRongKhun3 Leaving Chiang Rai we headed North toward Myanmar (Burma) and the Golden Triangle: MaeSai-GoldenTriangle BorderRoad-MaeSai This shot is looking toward Thailand (Mae Sai) from the border road – we were stopped several time for ID check of Tasanai, (they didn’t ask for my ID at anytime), apparently they wanted to make sure he wasn’t illegal. At the top of this mountain range was the King’s ...
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Chiang Rai and the Red Rose Hotel

By fn1, 21. October 2006, 21:18 o'clock
Sawasdee Khrap Just got back from a trip to Chiang Rai and the surrounding area. We stayed the night in the Red Rose Hotel in the Toon Inn Room — As you can see from the pictures this is a place you won’t want to miss – especially if you have kids or you are young at heart yourself. I really liked this room, but if you don’t like cartoons, they also have the Boxing Room, Space Ship Room, and many more to choose from – see the big sign in the picture of the front entrance. Prices range from 800 Baht to 2800 Baht – that’s $20–70/night US depending on size.. We thought our car felt right at home in the Toon’s Car Port -. $30 US/night Anyway here are the images: 8210-RedRoseSign RedRoseSignNight RedRoseDragon ToonInnFront RedRoseBench RedRoseOfferings TasToonInnToonInnCarToonInnFrontRoom ToonInnLivingRm2ToonInnBedroom ToonInnDressingRmToonInnToilet We left the Red Rose visited the new Wat Rung Khun – beautiful white temple ...
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New P.O.Box too

By fn1, 18. October 2006, 16:48 o'clock
Sawasdwee Khrap Forgot – today I got a new P.O. Box at our local Post Office. P.O. Box 237 Phrasing Post Office Chiang Mai 50205 Thailand We will use this for AsianCoOp and business type mail that will not need to go to the Condo. Our personal mail will still go to the HillSide4 address. Ciao Frank
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Checkup and then to Chiang Rai

By fn1, 18. October 2006, 16:40 o'clock

Sawasdee Khrap

Went to the hospital today for my annual checkup – 4000 Baht, $100 US.   Checked blood (sugar, PSA, hormones, hepatitis, STD, etc ) , and urine, stool tests (complete), EKG, Artery Condition, body fat, chest X-ray —— Hows that for a full checkup and what a great price.

Tomorrow we leave for Chiang Rai – will get some shots there and present them next posts

Ciao

Frank

 

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Think I’ll stick to BlogJet

By fn1, 16. October 2006, 12:27 o'clock

Sawasdee khrap

I’ll stick to BlogJet for the time being, but I will keep Qumana on the system, maybe the ability to add ads later will be worthwhile – right now not.  I really like the thumbnail and enlargement scheme used in BlogJet.  A restriction on font usage is not a problem – I will stick to a font that will present equally well in most browsers.  –

Anyway , just starting to get back to work on the Web.  I’ll start setting up the storefront using ZenCart now —– I do seem to be having some problem with the new computer – seems the USB recognition is not functioning correctly – several card reader slots are not showing up all the time – spotty, puzzled – but the rest seems to be working OK.

Frank

 

 

 
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Testing Qumana Blog Editor

By fn1, 16. October 2006, 11:25 o'clock
Sawasdee Khrap Now this is a test for the new Qumana Blog Editor I installed -In addition to standard posting it will allow me to place ads in the posts in the future if I desire - we will see about that - possibility First thing I see is that it will not allow changing font faces - it is restricted to the dropdown menu of basics fonts. That may not be a problem and will allow a more universal display with any browser. If I need to use special FONT I can make them as images and then add them - that way all browsers will be the same look - not relying on a specific font to be on the users system - or have to embed anything........ just thoughts Now for the images: This is the same image on I posted using BlogJet - doesn't seem to have any thumbnails nor ways to click for a enlarged photo - at least to easily do it from the editing window. I'll check to see if it is possible. The 'Shift' corner resize didn't seem to work and reduce the image proportionally. Well, this is just the first test.

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Testing the new computer

By fn1, 14. October 2006, 15:56 o'clock
This is just a test to see if BlogJet is posting as it should from the new installation on the new computer. Here is a picture for the test IMGA0022mod It’s a picture of John at Simon’s while he and Roy were here – it was shot in the dark so isn’t very good but it is a small file I can use and it's quickly available. Frank P.S.   Seemed to work OK -- picture and all - great now I can return to posting -----
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New Computer problems

By fn1, 8. October 2006, 22:28 o'clock

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Just got our new computer – a Duo Core Intel 2.4GHz, 250 GB HD with a high speed and resolution graphics board – a GeForce 7600 GS —– [ what a fast machine,  we are going to need the speed for the video processing]   and tried to install Windows XP Prof. – Damn thing screwed up the whole thing – said I needed to call Microsoft because my Activation number was used 3 times and that was not allowed – and yet it was their own auto install that apparently activated it several times — what a piece of CRAP.   I did this so I would have a good registered operating system on board – that was a mistake I won’t make again.

I’ll have to take it back to the computer store I got if from tomorrow so they can re-format the HD’s and reinstall the operating system they installed – LINUX — this windows nonsense is just that – can’t wait till the Apple Operating system is sold to the general public – I think I will get it and then have the best of both worlds – run Mac and PC software – only problem is you have to reboot to switch – but what the hell it’s better than putting up with Microsoft’s crap.  I’ll set this one up now with UNIX and dual boot to my old Home XP —

Anyway – that’s the reason I haven’t added more pictures to the blog – got

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