The cabinet approved on Tuesday new guidelines for salary raises to employees in the public sector.
The Central Wage Committee recommended that salaried workers with exceptional job performance should receive a pay rise of 6.9%. Those who have performed well should get a raise of 4.9% while those who have simply worked acceptably should get a pay rise of 2.9%. [via Bangkok Post]
Sierra Tangos
- Party Bar, Soi 8 - New look, new girls
- After the Catz Invitational Golf Tournament on Thursday there will be a party in the bar starting at 8pm. A 30Kg pig will be sacrificed and there's cottage/steak and kidney pies from Bob Palmers plus tandoori chicken and home-made potato salad/coleslaw/garlic bread etc. Food from around 8.45. All welcome - you don't have to be a golfer.
- New bar in Soho Square, Utopia Lounge. It's a bar and cafe with coyote dancers.
- Fun Room and Rock Girls close their doors on Soi 15
- Two Iranian tourists attacked by sex workers on Pattaya Beach [via Pattaya City News]
- Liberty taking German attacked by vigilante ladyboy. [via Pattaya Daily News]
- The £235 billion benefits map of Britain [via Daily Mail]
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Check Web Site Availability with Down For Everyone Or Just Me?
Web service Down For Everyone Or Just Me? serves a singular and useful purpose: to see if that web site you're trying to reach is actually down, or if your busted-up computer or network filters is the problem. When you can't get your Gmail or hit your favourite (hint, hint) weblog, just go to DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com, type in the address of the site that's MIA, and find out if it's really, you know, down for everyone or just you. I imagine this wouldn't work perfectly in a multi-server situation—like if some Google servers were up but not others. Still, a quick and easy way to see whether your problem is widespread. [via Lifehacker]
- How to Centralise ALL Your Online Communication
Keeping in constant contact with your friends online has never been easier. We’ve now got a growing list of instant messaging, email, and online social networks that help us stay in touch.
The trouble is, the more points of contact we have, the more time it takes to manage our online presence.
digsby is a free ambitious service which allows you to track everything in one place. I’ve now got my Facebook, Gmail, and MSN running off digsby and I get updates from all sources without having to visit individual sites. Think of it as RSS feeds for your online presence.
There are too many features to get into detail on this post, but here are some of my favourites:
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One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
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Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
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Gives you a snapshot of your unread messages with just one click
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Perform actions such as "Mark as Read" or "Report Spam" , and send email right from digsby
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Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, newsfeed etc. from Facebook
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Complete synchronization between computers and installations.
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You can place a widget on your blog, website, or social network profile so you can chat with visitors right from digsby.
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Manage multiple simultaneous file transfers from one simple transfer manager
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and the list of features goes on and on… (as I said - it’s an ambitious project)
On my wish-list is Twitter integration as well as a web based interface as well. Hope this is in development down the road. In any case it’s still a fabulous way to centralize all my online communication!
Note: digsby is still in private beta, so you need an invite code to be able to use it. Fortunately digsby was kind enough to provide the following code to give you full access. :
Invite code = digsbyfriends
Download the client and input the invite code when you start the program. [vi Friedbeef]
- Monica Hanson at Totally Crap
- Iga at Drunken Yeti
- Penny Lancaster topless and the considerate people at Taxi Driver have cropped out Rod so as not to wrinkle the moment
- Nelson Mandela is sitting at home watching TV and drinking a beer when he hears a knock at the door.
When he opens it, he is confronted by a little Chinese man, clutching a clip board and yelling,
'You Sign! You sign!'
Behind him is an enormous truck full of car exhausts.
Nelson is standing there in complete amazement, when the Chinese man starts to yell louder,
'You Sign! You sign!'
Nelson says to him, 'Look, you've obviously got the wrong man', and shuts the door in his face.
The next day he hears a knock at the door again.
When he opens it, the little Chinese man is back with a huge truck of brake pads.
He thrusts his clipboard under Nelson's nose, yelling,
'You sign! You sign!'
Mr Mandela is getting a bit hacked off by now, so he pushes the little Chinese man back, shouting:
'Look, go away! You've got the wrong man. I don't want them!' Then he slams the door in his face again.
The following day, Nelson is resting, and late in the afternoon, he hears a knock on the door again.
On opening the door, there is the same little Chinese man thrusting a clipboard under his nose, shouting,
'You sign! You sign!'
Behind him are TWO very large trucks full of car parts.
This time Nelson loses his temper completely, he picks up the little Man by his shirt front and yells at him:
'Look, I don't want these! Do you understand? You must have the wrong name! Who do you want to give these to?'
The little Chinese man looks very puzzled, consults his clipboard, and says
(Use your best Chinese accent)
'You not Nissan Main Deala?'
- Why women live longer......
- Boy to Granny: "Have you seen my pills, they were labelled LSD?"
Granny: "Fuck the pills; have you seen the dragons in the kitchen?"
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