Saturday 1 March 2008

Pay 25% More For Less

I ate at Sizzler's in Royal Garden today for the first time in a number of months and two things struck me. The new decor and the new prices. The price of a meal on the kids menu 3 months ago was Bt99 but today the same meal was Bt125. Just a tickle over a 25% increase. To add insult to injury it was 25% more for less food as the cheese bread served with the meal on my previous visit was missing from today's meal.

Even with rising fuel costs how can they justify a price rise of 25%? Amazing Thailand.

 

There will be no post on Sunday so my next post will be late Monday evening, March 3rd, Thai time.

 

 

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  • More on the clampdown in Bang Chang. In addition to the later opening times, bar-keeps have been told that they will have to pay for a TV broadcasting license costing Bt7,000/- per month and a music license costing in the region of Bt25,000/- a year. 

 

  • Cherry Bar Party - Midnight, March 2

 

  • Can't live Them Or Without Them - Stephen Cleary on the many misconceptions associated with Thai women [via The Nation

 

  • The launch of Daily Xpress, Thailand's first ever free newspaper, to be published in English with a compact form, will take place along with the transformation of The Nation into a paper with a firm focus on in-depth business and political coverage. Daily Xpress will have an audited print run of 100,000 copies daily, making it the largest-circulated English daily newspaper in Thailand.

The Nation readers, starting on March 5, will get a double package of news - in broadsheet and compact forms. With Daily Xpress also delivered to present and future Nation subscribers, it means Nation readers are treated to 72 pages of in-depth news, analyses and trendy lifestyle and entertainment reports on most days. [via Inquirer]

 

  • Purrint turns your PrtSc button into an actual print screen button

Purrint

The Print Screen key on most computers is really just there to taunt you. Seriously, what other purpose could it have? Hitting it doesn't actually print anything. It just copies an image to your clipboard. Who thought that was a good idea? Well, sure, copying to your clipboard is handy, but shouldn't the key be called "Copy Screen?"

If you'd like to make the Print Screen button do what it promises though, check out Purrint. This tiny little Windows utility hangs out in your system tray and changes the behaviour of your keyboard's most baffling button. When you hit Print Screen, a window will pop up asking if you want to copy the screen to your clipboard, save the image as a file, or actually print it.

You can also click the options button to set the default behaviour and skip this pop-up menu altogether. [via gHacks]

     
  • Personalized YouTube Homepage - YouTube tests a new homepage that is customisable and centred on your activities. Instead of displaying the same content for all YouTube users, the new homepage looks different, depending on your preferences and your activities. Here's what's new:
  • recommended videos, a feature that relies on your previous activity: favourite videos, subscribed channels
  • latest from your subscriptions: 12 videos from 3 of your subscribed channels
  • friend activity: a list of videos uploaded, favourite or rated by your YouTube contacts. This information is displayed only if your contacts added it to their public profiles.
  • inbox: messages, friend invites, received videos.
  • statistics about your videos (total views, subscribers) and your activity (subscriptions, comments).

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The goal with all of this is to gauge people's interest in having a YouTube that's tailored to the individual. Ultimately, we want to get you one step closer to the videos you'll enjoy most every time you come to the site," explains YouTube.

To try the new homepage, log in to your YouTube account and then go to http://www.youtube.com/iyt. [via Google Operating System]

 

 

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  • A middle-aged couple had two beautiful daughters but always talked about having a son. They decided to try one last time for the son they always wanted. The wife got pregnant and delivered a healthy baby boy. The joyful father rushed to the nursery to see his new son, but he was horrified at the ugliest child he had ever seen. He told his wife, "There's no way I can be the father of this baby. Look at the two beautiful daughters I fathered! Have you been fooling around behind my back?" The wife smiled sweetly and replied, "Not this time!"

   

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