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Well here I am at Ballina Beach Resort, the venue for Ausweb08 - one of the world’s oldest internet based conferences. It doesn’t have the cachet of the newcomers like Web Directions, but it still attracts some good thinkers and some interesting topics.
One of the features of this conference, however, is that it is always […]

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 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.

It’s a long way from Chiang Mai to the island of Ko Samui, in the Gulf of Thailand. We’re 9 degrees from the equator - roughly the same as the tip of Cape York, but along with all the differences there are all the similarities.

After our experiences with the demon tuk-tuk drivers of Bangkok, we were more than a little cautious about engaging the services of them again in Chiang Mai. So, when we needed a hand getting around and the first driver quoted us 100B, we moved on to look for other options.

Well, we’ve been in Thailand all of two days now - been ripped off in Bangkok, found ourselves in a ‘one star’ guest house in Chiang Mai and it seems we’ve finally landed on our feet.