Owning a motorbike in Thailand

I reached a point in Phuket at which I had to get my own transport. As I don’t know how to drive a car, my choices were limited: motorbike or bicycle. Riding around on a bicycle all day wasn’t going to cut it, so a motorbike it had to be. For several weeks I had a Honda Click on temporary …

Jan 27, 2008

How to get 50,000 hits in five days

Would you believe that over the past five days I’ve had more than 50,000 unique visitors to this blog? The majority of that traffic has been direct to one post. Any idea what that post might be? A few weeks ago I wrote a post about a guy and the ordeal he went through in a hotel trying to communicate …

Jan 24, 2008

Filesharing and Thailand: a discussion

I spend a lot of my time writing for blogs about music downloads and filesharing. While the music industry hates filesharing, it’s clear that it was so late in dealing with the issue that it now cannot be overcome. Living in Thailand, there are few people who could say that they do not own at least one pirated item, be …

Jan 23, 2008

A-list DJ cries in Bangkok

Culture One over the weekend was an enjoyable event. It was perhaps most memorable for three or four monologues delivered by David Morales towards the end of the night. David Morales is an A-list DJ. He costs thousands of dollars to book and is universally respected. However, he made a fool of himself in Bangkok and I suspect he will …

Jan 20, 2008

Andrew Spooner responds

I have been in Bangkok all weekend and so a few comments that were posted in response to my last post went unmoderated. The writer of the article in question actually responded to the post and some of the comments made. For those who may not click back to that post, here is what he said: Just thought I’d respond …

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