It's hard not to notice that there has been a rather sudden influx of Russian tourists to Thailand. It may be that there are more Russians in Phuket than Bangkok, but this increase is not just my imagination – the Russians are coming. At the risk of offending my Russian readers – I know that I used to have at …

I often wonder how far ahead or behind the rest of the world Thailand is in terms of the technology that we have access to here. With widespread access to the Internet and online stores such as Amazon, i don't think there is much difference. After hearing several reports about the new Asus Eee PC, I decided to buy one …

Today marks 28 years since the death of Ian Curtis. He died at the age of 23, more than two years before I was born. He would have been 52 this year. For someone who died so young, so long ago, Ian Curtis has had an unprecedented impact on modern-day music, in a similar way to Nick Drake, who also …

This title is obviously a joke, but the way things at Man City look at the moment, they may as well employ a bunch of clowns to play for them next season. The whole situation has turned from Man City potentially becoming the next Real Madrid or Chelsea, to the team looking like the jokes of the footballing world. After …

Readers sometimes come to me for help. I’m not always able to aid them, either because I’m too busy or I don’t know the answers to their questions. So, in a roundup of a couple of readers’ requests, I thought I’d try and help out. One chap, named Quinn, is looking for resources about “Thailand’s conflict with the US and …

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