Brazen Theft Nets 2Million Baht

The Pattaya Daily News is running a story about a Dutchman whose home was burgled with a loss in cash and goods of 2 million Baht. However, the real story is hidden in the detail. The Dutchman was sponsoring 4, yes 4 go go dancers to the tune of 100,000 Baht each per month. Yes, you read that correctly. Now, I don't know the guy so I can't really comment but surely this falls into the realm of more money than sense. I mean if you had 100,000Baht a month to punt on a girl would you put it on a go-go girl? Whatever, it's his money, it's his call. One things for sure, he's priced a lot of other punters out of the market with these rates and it won't take long for word to spread over the som tam tables of south Pattaya.

The burglary came after he decided to put the 4 girls back in the shop window. Clearly it was a gravy train they didn't want to get off. What's the chance the thief is the Thai boyfriend / husband of one of the 4 girls. Watch this space........

Sierra Tangos

• Sexy Body Contest - Coyotees Go Go, 10.00pm, Oct 28. Girls from five different go go bars will be competing for 20,000 Baht in prize money.

• Champions Go-Go Bar on Walking Street is selling draught beer for 35 Baht all night

• Misty's Go Go, Soi Pattayaland show English and Scottish Premier league soccer every Saturday and this week they will also show the England v South Africa rugby final with commentary.

• If you use Open Office (free) instead Microsoft Office (mega bucks) and there's absolutely no reason why not to, then are you aware that you can add extensions to Open Office in the same way that you add extensions to Firefox browser.

One of the recently released extensions is for the Writer component of the office suite, and it adds a new menu option with some useful tools. It’s called Writer Tools, and the installation process couldn’t be any simpler. You just have to download the ZIP file from Google Code, extract the contents, and double-click on the WriterTools.oxt file that it contains. This will automatically begin the installation process in OpenOffice.org, and after it’s done just restart Writer.

Writer Tools contains all of the options you see pictured to the right, and here’s some details on what each of them does:

• Lookup Tool - defines a word in your default browser using Cambridge Dictionaries, WordNet, or Google De

  

  fine.
• Google Translate - translate selected text fragments using Google Translate service.
• Show on the Map - select a city, a street name, or a postal code and map it using the Multimap service.
• Email Backup - send a backup copy of the currently opened document to an email address.
• Multi-format Backup - macro saves the currently opened Writer document in the Word, RTF, and TXT formats. The backup files are stored in a separate folder with a date stamp.
• Remote Backup - save a backup copy of the current document on a FTP server.
• Wikify Word - links a selected word or text fragment in the current document to a created on the fly Writer document. For example, if the word “Monkey” is selected, the macro automatically links it to the created Monkey.odt document.
• Start/Stop Timer - keep tabs on time spent on the currently opened document and save the time data (the document name, used time, and date).
• Word Hunt Game - guess the word randomly picked by Writer.
• Word of the Day - picks and displays a random word and its definition from the from the accompanying WriterDB database.
• Add to Basket - text snippets, links, and notes to the supplied database. You can also categorize and tag the added entries.

This also comes with a template extension for Writer, but it’s a bit disappointing. If you plan on writing a book it might be useful, but other than that you’ll probably never use the templates that it comes with. [via Cybernet]

Ed. Many additional extensions can be found here




• A father put his 3-year-old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers -- which she ended by saying: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and goodbye Grandpa." The father asked, "Why d

  

  id you say goodbye Grandpa?" The little girl said, "I don't know Daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."

  The next day grandpa died.

  The father thought it was a strange coincidence, but a few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers, which ended like this: "God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and goodbye Grandma."

  The next day the grandmother died. Oh my gosh, thought the father, this kid is in contact with the other side! He made sure he listened to her prayers every night.

  Sure enough, several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say: "God bless Mommy and goodbye Daddy."

  He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch sent in and watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch, and jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived, he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.

  When he got home his wife said, "I've never seen you work so late, what's the matter?" He said, "I don't want to talk about it -- I've just spent the worst day of my life."

  "You think you had a bad day?" she replied. "You'll never believe what happened to me: This morning my golf pro dropped dead in the middle of my lesson!"

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