BarCampChiangMai - Only one week to go!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

This coming Saturday the geeks of Thailand are gonna congregate at Chiang Mai for the very first BarCamp at Chiang Mai. In fact May 2008 is the month for camping (ignore the heat and rain, geeks camp in Air Conditioned rooms). BarCampChiangMai on 17th May, and DrupalCamp Bangkok on 24th ...

truewifi.net == big FAIL for usability

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Today I got myself a true wifi package for 500 Baht/month. Its quite nice as our new office doesn't have a fixed line yet... and true wifi's signal reaches here.... I logged in to truewifi.net today to change my password, and found that everything is in Thai, that's not bad as ...

IIFA in Bangkok?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

w00t w00t w00t!!!! Got some inside scoop today that there is a high probability of IIFA awards for 2008 would be held in Bangkok. This is great news for us Indians in Bangkok.... For the uninnitiated, The awards of the International Indian Film Academy (commonly known as the IIFA Awards) is a prestigious ...

Why cant FOSS succeed in India?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Recently Julie posted an interesting article called "open source development: women and Asians last". This attributes the main reason for Women and Asian people's lesser involvement in Open Source development to be its confrontational nature. It does make sense to an extent as far as Thailand is concerned, Thai people ...

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!

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 ...

BarCamp to be held in Bangkok

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

A little excited about BarCamp Bangkok. Never participated in any in-the-flesh Geek meet. In touch with JFXBurns and Sugree who are working hard behind the scene and proposed Indus as a possible venue for the event. The date has been (kinda) finalized for 26th January (Also India's Republic Day ). So ...