Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Online Courtship Guide and Principles: Internet Dating-Mating Introduction

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Remember the good old days sitting in your lonely room with soothing Sam Cooke ballads, wishing you were out on a date with that special someone to share all that love you had stored inside, if not help you spend that hard earned dough?
Well, what was so good about them boring and destitute Saturday nights [...]

The Actual P’s of Contemporary Capitalism and Marketing

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Capitalism & Marketing Mix: The true story

Imagine an alien student studying human-kind getting hold of a Marketing text book. Sooner or later, they’d get to the chapter about the four P’s: What were they again—oh yea, Product. Place, Price, and Promotion. Reading further, they’d go on to learn that a few additional Ps were amended [...]

Will Write For Food: Supplemental Income Content Writing

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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Virtual Samui: Holiday Planning in the Post-Modern World

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Koh Samui, one of Thailand’s most popular island destinations, maintains a ‘must go’ status for some, while for others is still one of those places at the bottom of the list. Considering its collage of aqua marine waters, white sand beaches, pristine tropical landscapes, cultural spice, and modern infrastructure, one has to wonder [...]

The role of monks in modern Thai society: Has Buddhism gone astray?

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Out and about on the streets and sights of Bangkok, there’s a spectacle blend of modern and ancient smells, sounds and sights to be had. On one end of the city, you’ll find yourself surrounded by towering skyscrapers, hi tech shopping malls, hi-speed sky train and subway transit systems, posh fashion districts, and IT hubs [...]

Take a stroll through the city without leaving your home: Chiangmai and San Francisco @ MapJack

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

This blog entry from Stuart G. Town’s blog informs about a cool new software-website called Mapjack. Similar to Google maps-Google Earth technology, Mapjack takes map navigating to the next level: Real time touring. Though Google Earth allows one to explore the globe real time in a partial-artificially rendered world, Map Jack uses actual still images [...]

Internet Amateurs: Hosting your own website and Domain Name

Friday, March 14th, 2008

There was a time when only diligent and determined geeks could become webmasters. Nowadays, just about anyone with a computer, internet access, and a basic IT knowledge base can create, develop, and host their own dynamic website.
As software and freeware become more accessible and user friendly, fundamental coding skills such as HTML and PHP [...]

Wordpress three column theme malfunction in Internet Explorer web browser: column-sidebar drops down in IE; problem and solution

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

For the longest time, this blog and the Siamerican’s personal blog were not displaying properly in Internet Explorer web browsers. As they both implement a three column theme, the third column or sidebar always dropped to the bottom, below all the content, and particularly, only when opened in Internet Explorer.
Upon research, it was found that [...]

After a month-long silence, the Siamerican’s Cyber Journal @ Thaiskale.com is back!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

You are probably wondering what happened to January, and why there isn’t any recent blog activity here. That is because the blog was taken down as to transfer web hosts. Previously, the Siamerican Wanderer was using a Thai hosting company paying some 1100 baht (now converts to 34 bucks) per year which was quite [...]

Internet and Tech Woes: Victim of Virus and Spam IT epedemic

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

So I log onto my blog and there is some 84 comments to moderate from the last week. I’m thinking, ‘Damn! My blog is happenin!’ To my dismay, 80 of the comments were spam. As usual, most of the spam could be spotted a mile awaythe systematically generated posts with 20 url-hyperlinks to pharmaceuticals and [...]