I can't work out if this tech column in the Bangkok Post is a joke or not. It was published yesterday and it appears to have gone in the newspaper. It's a review of Twitter. That's the same Twitter that's one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. The same Twitter that's been around since 2006. The review begins:

I've recently spent a few weeks playing around with Twitter. No doubt you've heard about it and maybe you're wondering what it's all about.

Dude, we know what it's all about.

Twitter is basically what we used to call newsgroups. A closer analogy would be a messageboard, like the ones that the folks over at thaivisa.com offer. Unlike a Newsgroup or a messageboard, your Tweet can only contain 140 characters – a few short sentences. So, not much gets said.

He ends with this:

Twitter is part of what's being defined as "Social Media". Next time, we'll look at Facebook, another part of the Social Media arena, one which I think is far more valuable.

Is the Bangkok Post stuck in a timewarp? Are we actually in a pre-coup era? Is Michael Jackson going to make a comeback?

I was stunned today to find out that my favourite band, Pop Will Eat Itself, are back. Songwriter Graham Crabb sent out a press release yesterday announcing a new direction for the band, which split in 1996. It's unclear who, if anyone, will be present from the original lineup, but this is still exciting news.

Pop Will Eat Itself were way ahead of their time and they laid some of the foundations for the Britpop and indie movements that would follow in later years. They used samples and had a kind of acid industrial sound.

Clint Mansell, vocalist and all-round frontman legend, went on to write the scores for movies like Requiem for a Dream, Pi and The Wrestler. His track Lux Aeterna has been used frequently by Hollywood movie studios. Pop Will Eat Itself also worked extensively with the Sheffield-based Designers Republic.

Pop Will Eat Itself developed a cult following that has lasted to this day. It's perhaps similar to the following The KLF have always had, which was dumbed down for teenyboppers by the likes of Mixmag in recent years. I fully expect publications like the NME to run some kind of feature on Pop Will Eat Itself to get all the new rave tragedies interested.

I doubt there are many of you out there who have heard of this band. They never really achieved mega-stardom, at least not in the modern sense. Anyway, there's a new album and a tour coming this year. I for one am excited to see how it all comes together.

The UN Security Council needs to step up and take action to address the lack of accountability for human rights violations committed in East Timor to ensure there isn't a repeat of the violence that has marred Dili, the nation's capital, in recent years, says Amnesty International.

"On two separate occasions since independence, in 2006 and again in 2008, political violence erupted in [East Timor]," wrote Renzo Pomi, Amnesty's representative at the UN, in a letter dated Tuesday.

"Although there were complex reasons for each situation, the failure to rebuild the justice system effectively and to bring those responsible for past human rights violations to justice contributed to an environment where there was no strong deterrent to political violence and human rights abuses."

With the UN's current mission in the East Timor up for renewal this Friday, Pomi said it's time to tie up loose ends, complete investigations and push ahead with prosecutions for the many human rights violations that occurred during the brutal 24-year occupation by the Indonesian military between 1975-99.

"I am writing to urge the Security Council to take immediate steps to address the continuing lack of accountability for crimes against humanity and other grave human rights violations which occurred in [East Timor] under Indonesia’s occupation," wrote Pomi.

A technical assessment of the UN's mission in East Timor, carried out last month, echoed the findings of last year's independent needs assessment of the country's justice sector, added Pomi.

"Both reports identified deficiencies and challenges regarding the rule of law, judicial independence and confronting impunity, inter alia."

More than 100,000 people died through fighting, disease and starvation as a result of the Indonesian occupation. East Timor became formally independent in 2002 but today is still one of the world's poorest nations.

For the sake of informing the world, I am now back in Dili and working once more, writing stories about this, that and the other. I will be here for the foreseeable future. Got a project you think deserves attention or a burning issue you reckon needs covering? I can be contacted by email or else I'm back on my old phone number, contact details here.

Dili seems much the same as ever. I haven't been here since October last year, I think. There is a lot more traffic and it's still very hot, but otherwise everything looks in order. And my goodness, what a monstrosity the Chinese embassy has turned out to be. It's an enormous white cube.

The nightlife is as banging as ever. I'm also feeling rather sick today, possibly a return of the tonsillitis I had previously. Fun and games.

I've been in Indonesia these past couple of months. Here are a few photos of what I've been up to. Lots more on FlickR.