Archive for January, 2008

BarCampBangkok winter 2008 a HUGE success!

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Last Saturday was BarCampBangkok. It was the first BarCamp in Thailand and was hosted at Indus Restaurant. The day was January 26th and co-incided with India's 59th Republic Day and an education exhibition at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center. Thaindian.com was the Web Partner for the education exhibition and we had ...

The best T-Shirt Award Goes to….

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

At Flickr Anoop an ajarn from Chulalongkorn University. UPDATE : OMG! Showed this post to a (non-Geek/non-Tech/vista user) friend and even he understood it, bursted out laughing!

Window crashes at Suvarnabhumi Airport

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Windows : Bug or feature? Originally uploaded by sajal kayan See what happens when you use windows for public machines! I was strolling inside the Suvarnabhumi Airport and saw this error message on all international calling kiosks!

Yet another PC - Mac video

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Seems some people just wont stop making us laugh and bring out the truth. A couple of months ago I showed my Fedora 7 loaded notebook to someone (who has both mac and a windows workstations). She immediately commented.. "ohh that looks like a mix of mac and windows.". ...

BarCampBangkok’s potential achievements?

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

NOTE: Totally based on assumptions. Please comment to add more or remove/rectify false ones. BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The ...

Google dance day today - How has been the response for you?

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Today I noticed an update in the pageranks of my websites. Most pages going up 1 or 2 ranks. However one news sub-site that I launched on mid-November went up from 0 to 5 at a go! It was 0 till 11th but on 12th January morning (Thai time) I was ...

Linux at NYSE

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

This would be one of my favourites at UserFriendly Click to Enlarge

The Original Human TETRIS

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Followed this awesome video from Truemors. TETRIS played by real human-beings sitting in an auditorium: TETRIS is the 4th video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). This stop-motion video was shot and played for "LES URBAINES" festival http://www.urbaines.ch at the Palais ...

Thaindian.com’s traffic exceeds local slashdot

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

It was one of those days where instead of doing some productive work, I was wasting my time comparing my alexa graph to competitors. I don't know what got into me I decided to compare Thaindian's traffic to Blognone's. Look at what I found! Blognone is to Thais' what Slashdot is ...

Secure Proxy using Squid

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Had originally posted this on Friday, September 29th, 2006 during the peak of Takhsin's rampant blocking of websites and the blocking proxies were messing up often blocking un-blocked pages also. It is very important to use a secure proxy if you browse the web from unsecure Networks. The basic requirements are a ...