Archive for January, 2007

never forget it’s your money…

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

As a postscript to our asian holiday, we’ve been replacing just about every credit/debit card we own (don’t even ask!). So, every couple of days a new envelope arrives from one bank or another.
Each new card is accompanied by a new PIN. For security reasons (and just plain common sense!), banks don’t send these out […]

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the king cult

Friday, January 12th, 2007

We happened to be in Chiang Mai for the King of Thailand’s birthday. If you haven’t been to Thailand, you can have no idea how big a deal this is. The Thai’s really love their king!

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bangkok traffic hazards

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Bangkok traffic is legendary. 16 million people in a relatively confined metropolitan area inevitably leads to some problems, but there’s a whole lot more to it than that.

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