Monthly Archives: January 2007

never forget it’s your money…

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 [...]

the king cult

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!

bangkok traffic hazards

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.