The official date for the upcoming mayoral election in Pattaya has been announced as Sunday 4 May. At a pre-election meeting held at City Hall on Tuesday morning Khun Niran, the outgoing Mayor of Pattaya, said he would be stepping down officially from his duties as of Wednesday 26 March. In the run-up to the election his senior adviser Khun Itipon, one of the three current candidates for mayor, will take up pre-mayoral duties.
No word yet if there will restrictions on alcohol sales on May 3rd or 4th.
Sierra Tangos
- From today, (Tuesday), Insomnia will open from 10.00pm with a special promotion to 1.00am of buy 1 drink get 1 free
- One-legged Finn fatally stabbed in Pattaya condo [via Pattaya Daily News]
- Motorists have been warned that they have until May 8 to get used to the idea of not talking on their mobile phone while driving. [via Bangkok Post]
- Iraq by Numbers
- The number of US soldiers killed in the conflict: 4,000
- The number of direct relatives of the neocons who conceived the war killed in the conflict: 0
It's very easy to be in favour of a war that brings you huge profits and in which other people's children do the dying. [via Neil Clark]
- The US on Tuesday launched Asia's first avian influenza combat depot in Thailand to supply emergency kits to fight new outbreaks in the region of the H5N1 virus that has killed at least 235 people worldwide. "The Regional Distribution Centre in Thailand, the first of three regional supply centres that are being established worldwide, will help ensure countries in Asia will be able to take fast action to counter avian influenza without endangering the lives of the rapid-response teams," said US Ambassador to Thailand Eric John. [via EarthTimes]
- RockPod optimises videos for your iPod, PDA, PSP or Zune
There are probably hundreds of programs that let you convert video files from one format to another. RockPod 08 Lite is another one of them, but it has a few features which make it an ideal choice for anyone looking to cram a few videos on their mobile device.
First of all, RockPod features profiles for common mobile devices like iPods, PDAs, Zunes, PSPs, iPhones, and the Eee PC. The last one's a bit silly since the Eee PC is basically a small computer which can handle any video, but all of these settings are kind of arbitrary. Essentially the RockPod developers picked video resolutions and codecs that they thought would work well on each device.
Second, instead of wading through a series of menus to choose the frame rate, bit rate, and other settings, RockPod lets you pick a file size. That's it. Want the finished video to be 64MB or 768MB? Just choose your preferred file size from the drop down menu and RockPod will do the rest. Obviously the larger your file, the higher quality the audio and video will be. [via Downloadsquad]
- Speed up file Copy’n Paste with Piky Basket - As much as I like Windows XP, I am constantly aware of its severe limitations. I realised this when I installed Teracopy to replace the standard Windows moving & copying function and it shot out the gate like a bat out of hell.
Piky Basket is something similar although it isn’t a software program. It is a shell extension which integrates itself into your Windows Explorer right-click menu. But where Teracopy is best suited for large-sized files being moved between drives, Piky Basket is more for your standard day-to-day folder maintenance, when you’re cleaning things up and generally staying organized.
When you want to copy a file and move it to another Windows folder, the normal way to do it is to right-click on the file, choose “copy” then go to the target folder, right-click again, choose “insert” then your copied file appears. That’s fine and easy if it’s only one or two files. But what if you have one hundred files to copy, spread out over say fifty folders? How long do you think it will take to copy them all individually then move them to a new folder individually on the PC? Plus it’s pretty tedious going backwards and forwards right?
That’s where the free Piky Basket comes in.
After installing Piky, you’ll notice it now living in your Windows Explorer right-click menu.
Now let’s take the above scenario and do it the Piky way. You would quickly go through your fifty folders, right-clicking on the files you want copied and “drop them in the basket”. If you look at the screenshot, you’ll see “empty basket (0)”. Well when you start dropping files in the basket, that will start to add up so you can see at all times how many files you have in the “basket” so you can keep count.
When all the files are in there, go to the target folder. Now if your intention is to move the original files to that folder, right-click in the target folder and choose “move all”. All the files will now be moved from the original folder(s) to the target folder. If your intention is to copy all the files to the target folder, choose “copy all” and copies will be inserted into the target folder (leaving the originals where they are). It doesn’t matter how many folders the originals are spread out over - Piky remembers.
But if you look closely at the screenshot, there are two other options that Piky provides :
1. Copy Paths to Clipboard : by right-clicking on a file and choosing “copy paths to clipboard”, Piky will give you the exact location of your file in your PC so you can paste it into a text box, word document or email. So for example : J:\Documents\Writing\Story ideas\writingproject1.doc
2. Command Prompt Here : selecting this option launches a command prompt window in Explorer from that folder.
It would be nice if Microsoft would buy these tools from the companies and integrate them into the next Windows operating system as default features - instead of the inferior tools we have now! [via MakeUseOf]
- Natasha Mealey going 30DD topless. Impressive......
- Casey and Kat Kellerman at Let There Be Porn
- Tiger at Your Dirty Mind
- The kindergarten class had settled down to its colouring books. Willie came up to the teacher's desk and said, "Miss Francis, I ain't got no crayons." "Willie," Miss Francis said, "you mean, "I don't have any crayons.' You don't have any crayons. We don't have any crayons. They don't have any crayons. Do you see what I'm getting at?" "Not really," Willie said, "and what happened to all them fuckin' crayons?"
- Pattaya monger's problem
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