Saturday, March 30, 2013

Just in time for Easter



wikipedia In 1988 a radiocarbon dating test was performed on small samples of the shroud. The laboratories at the University of Oxford, the University of Arizona, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, concurred that the samples they tested dated from the Middle Ages, between 1260 and 1390.



Don't turn on your phone...

... if it gets wet during Songkran.


We have the tendency to turn it on to see if it still works.
DON'T DO IT!! You only exasperate the problem.
Immediately remove the battery and place your phone in fresh, plain rice.
Unlike the suggestion in the video of 24 hours,  I'd double that time (48 hours).  Unfold the phone and remove all removable covers

Friday, March 29, 2013

Down and Dirty

Nong Han water levels are at at it's lowest in at least ten years..


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Pictured on the left is the water level in 2003.  The water level was only feet from the tree.
Dry areas are covered in litter. T.i.T


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Land ahoy!!
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28,000 rivers vanish from Chinese map - The Times

China’s disappearing rivers- Study hints at widespread water crisis  Asian Correspondent

Had to happen


Thailand Set to Sell Off Huge Stockpile of Rice - NYTimes.com

"...record stockpile deteriorating in warehouses..."


Travel 101

British Foreign Office developed an app...
 for "...traffic and safe-driving abroad..."
  Bangkok Post

          - etravelblackboardasia.com


Data pending?