When I was up in Amsterdam my Nokia N95 suddenly quit working. I bought it awhile back in Bangkok at MBK relatively cheap. At the time I was really wavering back and forth whether to get the N95 or plunk down the cash and get an iPhone. I was happy at the time because most …
It’s been awhile since my last post here so now that I’m a little more settled in I thought I would share a little about what I’ve been doing while I’ve been so very quiet. The big news is that I decided to relocate to Thailand. That’s why it’s been difficult to post as I’ve …
A friend in Thailand sent me this story from the Phuket Gazette, the major English language newspaper down on Phuket. PATONG, PHUKET: Fifteen foreigners, mostly Frenchmen, were arrested in Patong early yesterday morning for playing poker in a small gambling den clandestinely set up behind a beer bar. Acting on a tipoff, Kathu Police Inspector …
One of the benefits of only having something like four channels in English is you are forced to get to watch some pretty unusual programming you might not otherwise watch. Case in point is the Australian program Border Security: Australia’s Front Line aka Nothing to Declare. In case the name wasn’t a dead giveaway, the …
I just got back from Estoril, Portugal (that was true when I first started working on this post) where we held the Betsson Live Estoril tournament. The Casino Estoril where the event was held is about an hour’ish outside of Lisbon. It’s billed as the largest casino in Europe and was the inspiration for Ian …