It’s not that often you come across people that makes you inspired. In 2009, Britain’s Got Talent introduced us to Susan Boyle. Today, Korea’s Got Talent gave Sung-Bong Choi to the world. He sang "Nella Fantasia," and everyone in the audience and judges went crying in tears of happiness similar to what happen in 2009 for Boyle’s performance. Thanks Mr. Choi for bring your talent to the stage, I’m already a fans or yours.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
How to create list in Facebook
Someone ask me earlier today how to create a friend’s list in facebook. Here’s what you’ve got to do to create one.
Case study: Let’s say I have want to create a list of friends that works at my company. So I might want to share thoughts or gossip about the new trainee. First I’ll have to create a friend list:
· Open your Account drop-down and click “Edit Friends”
· Click the “+Create a List” button
· "Create New List" box pops up
· In the box, "Enter a Name" for the friend list you're creating e.g. Finance in the same box, type your friends name in "Start Typing a Name". As you type, FB suggests people you might be thinking to add from your list of friends. Click on one of the suggestions and that person's name will be highlighted blue, with a check mark. Also you can add by clicking on their pictures below.
· When your happy, click on the "create list" button. The created list should appear on the left hand side menu.
· FB allows you to rename the list, add more friends to the list, and delete the list. These functions are shown on the list page shown below.
Tomorrow I’ll show you how to keep friends on a friend list from seeing something you post, hence hiding the wall post.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
World Environment Day, do people take it serious in Thailand?
June 5 is Environment Day World (WED). Its aims to foster positive environmental action globally. As an ongoing campaign since 1972 UN aim is to stimulate worldwide awareness of environment and encourages political attention and action. 
An event in Thailand points out the need for serious action. A sugar barge sank in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district of Ayutthaya on Tuesday, releasing about 2,300 tonnes of sugar into the river.(Nation)The sugar has been dissolving and polluting the water. Water quality in the Chao Phraya River section affected by massive amounts of sugar discharged from a sunken barge is expected to return to normal in three days, the Pollution Control Department says. However, PCD officials predicted that the water quality would return to normal by Sunday due to the large amount of water in the river and rainfall.As a legal action, a law suite is file against the owner (TAN,for kids). The community should be aware and the government should set up authorities to sort out this problem as they do in other countries. PCD’s attitude seems to be that “no big deal, in two days it’ll be to normal”, that’s not good enough, in other countries for example, the EPA take this seriously and take action to prevent the event from happen in the first place. Also, compensation value should be consistent with the ability of the operator to take, the damage caused both direct and indirect. We’ve seen several cases in Thailand that the compensation value was way “under-estimated” for indirect impacts.Co-Author - Gordon Wood
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Updates on recycling campaign
Referring to the blog about Recycling Campaign posted earlier, I’ve received updates about the activities done and results from Dr. Sujitra Vassanadumrongdee, researcher at The Center of Excellence for Environmental and Hazardous Waste Management, Chulalongkorn University this morning.
Over the period of the project (1 year), a total of 1,769 devices and 2,063 pieces of accessories (chargers and batteries) were collected. With promise to donate 2 US Dollars for every phone drop, Nokia and TES-AMM jointly contributed a donation of 110,000 Thai baht (about US$3,600) to support the university’s environmental fund. All collected phones were sent to TES-AMM for proper recycling. Coincidentally when looking the pictures, the TES-AMM personals running the campaign, Mr Luc Scholte van Mast and Mr. Thawal Saengsawang were colleagues of mine. What a small world!
How to insert Plus one button ((tag: google, plus one, wordpress, blogger)
Plus one button from Google is launched today. Currently, there is no official Word Press plugin yet (Neither for other public blogging services).
But don’t worry, you can grab the code from Google and place it on your webpage or blog. Plus, there’s some advance functions that you can play with including Include count, Parse, JS Callback function and URL to +1 (this is for static sites). Details of the API can be found here. That’s it, simple and easy for a single page.
But if you want it on the template, or elsewhere pages on your Word Press site, you need to modify a little bit more. This is done by
So try it out and see if this is really going to beat the “Like” button, although Google stated it wasn’t.
TrueNetTalk is a failure.
Today , I was surfing around for a local VOIP service offering local calls in Thailand. I came across TrueNetTalk and found that their rates are reasonably good for making local calls e.g. 0.16 Baht for land line (from the 300Mins for 50 Baht promotion package). For new subscribers, they offered a try free for 30 minutes to USA, Japan, Singapore, China, Macau, UK, Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea to try out the service as well. The service is operated under TRUE Corporation, Thailand’s leading provider of integrated communications solutions and one of the nation’s strongest brands.
Seems like a good deal, so I started filling the online application form, downloaded the software and installed it. Shortly after hitting the submit button, my username and password arrives in my mailbox. I entered them onto the so called “mobile-front-end” of the program. Then I start calling the following numbers to test out the TrueNetTalk application.
Calling | Result |
My house | No signal |
My friend’s house | No signal |
My mobile | No signal |
True’s hotline e.g 029008000 | No signal |
calling toll-free "hotline" numbers e.g. 027777777 | No signal |
I was a bit disappointed as there seems to be no signal. Maybe because it was just installed and required a reboot? So I rebooted my PC and redialed, still the same. Even if someone claims that “hey, you haven’t refill the account”, I would simply reply, “well, it says try free for 30 minutes right? Also there’s a “hotline” number that you can call for free as well, so it can’t be possible that they all aren’t working just because I didn’t refill right?”.
So for a conclusion, it seems the service doesn’t appear to be in service or working. I strong don’t recommend this software to anyone who is looking for VOIP services in Thailand. More than happy to hear any feedback from successful users of TrueNetTalk.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
World Energy Outlook 2010
The 2010 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) was released on 9 November and it provides updated projections of energy demand, production, trade and investment, fuel by fuel and region by region to 2035. It includes, for the first time, a new scenario that anticipates future actions by governments to meet the commitments they have made to tackle climate change and growing energy insecurity.
Source : http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/
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