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This is one of the better climate change movies online now. The 11th Hour gives an independent perspective on global warming and the causes. Cross-posted from: Expat…

Very impressive video by a Swedish Expat residing in Thailand. Vivian posted a video responding to the insults by Western Expats in regards to the Thai King. Her best…

I was given this "lucky ball" last weekend to make me feel happy. It is doing its job very well! :-)

We are now having ground water problems at my alleyway now. It started after the construction workers finished completing the canal drainage project component near my…

Today is the 9 year anniversary of the Venezuelan coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez. I first heard about Hugo Chavez back in 2002 right before the failed coup…

I am still surprised at the number of HSBC ATMs across Saigon nowadays. ATMs of various banks seem to be everywhere. Just a couple years ago, the closest HSBC ATM was in…

Well, my 10 days in the US are nearly over. Tomorrow night I head back to Saigon, Vietnam. Oddly enough, I will return to Vietnam with a great appreciation of Korean TV…

Jiverly A. Wong (Voong) killed 13 people and himself at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York, shocking the nation yesterday. Today he was identified as…

My flight leaves this afternoon. I have some time to get some blog posts out before I leave. I got a good shot of Smokey doing, umm, his thing :-) Don't you just love…

This is FPT for you. Here is a company that seems to win many ICT awards in Vietnam continuously each year yet can't seem to get their Customer Service right. Today is…

Last Sunday morning I took some morning pictures from my house in the Phu Nhuan District of Saigon at 6:30 AM in the morning. It is not often I am up early in the…

What a day. I can't believe it has been nearly 5 hours since @anhhung mentioned there was a problem with my blog. I checked my blog and found a blank Kubrick themed…

I am making dinner at home more often now. I am beginning to prefer this than eating out now. Now only does it save you money, I think the quality and taste are much…

A couple of times a week, I like to buy a coca cola from the street vendor near AIS. She and her family are very nice and their prices quite good. I have to pay 5,000…

Last week I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, a yearly ritual for me now. Arch Linux is now the main system that I run on this desktop. Gentoo/Funtoo will be there for…

Mel (Antidote to Burnout) mentioned if I had moved to a new house since I was no longer posting about my house on m blog. Nope, I am still here. There just have not been…

Finally, I got Funtoo Linux, a derivative of Gentoo Linux, installed on my desktop. Funtoo is a distribution created by the founder of Gentoo, Daniel Robbins. In his…

Well, last week my P35 series Gigabyte motherboard had some problems. I thought it was battery related but turns out my motherboard may be faulty. I decied to replace it…

Within minutes of Tweeting that the current storm would create flooding in Saigon, I heard water on my stairwell. It sounded like somebody left the shower on. Not good…

Finally, here are some photos of my damaged house. Not sure what the costs of the repairs will be. Last night Vietnam beat Thailand 2-1. There were a lot of traffic…