I’m still having problems with some of my sites losing PageRank, they used to have one and now they just show ‘no PageRank information available’. It’s getting to be bloody annoying as at least one of the pages has it’s income directly tied to it’s PageRank.

As a last resort I have created sitemaps for them and submitted them to Google, we shall see what happens now. I’m not keen on using sitemaps this way, it just seems to me Google are being lazy and requiring webmasters to feed their spider.

No idea how long it will be until the… Continue reading →

I had forgotten that I had been given an invite to the Joost beta test program, I just remembered today so downloaded it, I thought it might make a decent replacement for TV here on the island.

No such luck though, my dodgy Internet connection isn’t up to it, far too slow, I can’t even leave it buffering and watch it later, Joost doesn’t seem to work that way.

Oh well, no other options for a new connection available here so I’ll have to live without it.

I just got back from my 90 day visa run to Myanmar (Burma to us old folks) a few days ago, it was quite a trip! I took my bike over on the ferry to Surat Thani and then did a 600km round trip to Ranong and back on the crazy Thai roads, pretty scary stuff at times!

On the way I took things easy but it took so long to make the journey that on the way back I pushed the envelope a little, had my baby sports bike cruising at 120kmph wearing just a pair of shorts and… Continue reading →

Today was Nuth’s 34th birthday, I sometimes forget how old she is, she always seems a lot younger. So I took the day off work and we went out exploring the island on her scooter. We went to visit some friends for breakfast and then went shopping in town to buy some flowers and incense. The reason for this came shortly after, as Nuth wanted to visit the local Wat (temple) to get a blessing from a monk for her birthday. So we went along to the Wat down the road from us, Nuth handed this old codger all these… Continue reading →

There I was laying on my back across one of the seats in our katom lek (think summer house made of bamboo and thatched reed), I notice something moving out of the corner of my eye, glance over and there is this bloody nasty looking green snake about a foot from my head!

No need to say that I got away pretty sharpish, then grabbed my camera. I watched it for ages, it was hunting a gecko that lives in the thatch. It got really close to the gecko at one stage but the gecko spotted it and took off… Continue reading →