Commart Pattaya 2007

Commart Pattaya 2007 started today at the Peach Exhibition Hall, Royal Cliff. Items on offer included notebooks, desktops, TVs and cameras. Didn't see much in the way of comms. equipment like wi-fi routers. It many ways the exhibition looks more like a condensed version of the 5 floors at Tuk Com. I wanted to check out one of the more expensive Fuji Film cameras but it wasn't available. Plenty of other models but not the one I wanted. The assistant advised me to go to an high street branch but of course I'd then lose the discount on offer at the exhibition. Discounts of around 5% off high street prices appeared to be the norm. A few photos of the exhibition follow. It was noticeable that the P.R. ladies were almost as well covered up as a go-go dancer during the current clampdown:

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• Tahitian Queen 2 has slipped it's afternoon opening time from 2.00pm to 5.00pm

• Manager's Birthday Party at Shooters, Thursday 6 September. Free food and 60Baht beer and if that's not enough, the San Mig girls....

• A British national sentenced to life in a Thai prison on drug charges had his conviction overturned and is likely to return home within the next few days, the British Embassy said Tuesday. [via International Herald Tribune]

• Southern Provinces Festival coming to Pattaya.

  Items such as fruit, decorative products, and garments produced in Yala, Naratiwat and Pattani Provinces will feature in a special three day Festival starting on the 13th September at the Central Festival Center in North Pattaya. A total of 45 booths in the Outdoor Exhibition Arena will sell the products at discounted prices. [via Pattaya City News] Ed. Let's hope they don't bring local produce of a more explosive nature with them!!!!!

• It's a bit late in the day but England's One Day Cricket Internationals against India are being broadcast live and free of charge on Sophon Cable.

• I received the following spam e-mail today. Looks like they are still at it:

Dear Mr Jones,
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Please I await your urgent response.
Yours faithfully.

Mr. Obi Julius.
Bill & Exchange

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and change it to:

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(simply adding "kiss" before "youtube" in the URL) you have just created a download link to the video. It's a neat time saver that helps you skip a couple of steps in the downloading process. [via {digital} alchemy]

• A man rushes home, bursting through the front door of his house yelling to his wife: "Pack your bags honey, I just won the lottery! All £10 million of it... Woooohoooo!" "That's great, sweetie!", she replies, "Do I pack for skiing or the beach?" "Who cares," he replies, "Just fuck off!"