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Rødskjorte demonstrasjonEn av rødskjortenes talsmenn sier at de vil seire innen tre dager, eller aller helst i løpet av en eneste dag. Nøkkelpersoner av tilhengerne til tidligere avsatte statsminister Thaksin Shinawatra har allerede begynt å samles på hovedkvarteret til Pheu Thai Party for å gjøre forberedelser. Demonstrantene vil starte mobiliseringen allerede fredag mens hoveddemonstrasjonen skal foregå søndag.

Om lag 70% av taxisjåførene i Bangkok har allerede bekreftet at de skal delta selv …

Khan Kluay was a smash hit Thai cartoon when it was first released in Thailand in May 2006. It was the first Thai cartoon made at international standard and did very well in the domestic market. The little blue elephant, called Khan Kluay, was very popular with Thai children of all ages. I know Nong Grace has watched her DVD version so many times that it has worn out. It is based around Khan Luay who, when he was young, got separated from the herd when he went off looking for his father. …

Big Brother is watching – and waiting to break down your doors

• Don Sambandaraksa
• Bangkok Post Database: February 24, 2010
• http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/techscoop/33445/big-brother-is-watching-and-waiting-to-break-down-your-doors

What do the GT200 magic wand and the Internet Sniffer project have in common? Both are an assault on privacy and allow the state to pick on anyone at will.

The fact that the GT200 magic wand divining rod failed the test was not a surprise. That certain factions of …

English news sites blocked

CJ Hinke

February 26, 2010

Why anyone would consider using the ISP of the Telephone Organisation of Thailand (TOT) is anyone’s guess. TOT is always the quickest to block, either pre-emptively or at MICT’s “requests”.

Note that independent blocking by an ISP is illegal in the absence of a court order.

The powers-that-be must be getting anxious over the Thaksin verdict today. LiberalThai has been blocked for quite awhile. Thailand Crisis fades in and out of blocking. …

[FACT comments: It is a completely unprecedented act to have a lèse majesté court decision made public in this land of secret arrests, secret trials, secret convictions. Of course, it wasn’t the govt or judiciary which made the court’s decision public, it was Same Sky, in both Thai and English translation. If we intend Thailand to ever become a real democracy, we need to stop govt concealing its actions as if it had something to hide.]

Da’s Court Decision/คำพิพากษาของคุณดา

Political Prisoners …

Som dere har sett har vi hatt tekniske utfordringer den siste tiden. Spesielt gledelig er det å se at mange av dere har pustet med magen, og gitt oss tid. Men kanskje er det på tide å lage et teknisk forum som kan hjelpe til når problemene dukker opp?

Litt bakgrunn: http://liberal.no/2009/10/venstreno-versus-liberalno-hva-gjor-vi-na/

Dere var der kjempetydelige på at Liberal.no skulle leve videre. Det mener også jeg. Hentet akkurat ut statistikk fra Liberal, og den viser at det på det meste er …

800px-TeX_logo.svg Fact: Since starting to use TeX early last year, I have not used Microsoft Word or any other text editor to produce longer documents at all. Any document involving code, mathematical expressions or anything other than ordinary text just becomes so much easier and so much better.

If you don't know what TeX is or how to use it, I sincerely recommend you continue to read. If you are going to produce reports or longer documents now or in the future, be it a book report for school, …

Da jeg tidligere i dag holdt innlegg på KS Bedriftenes Årskonferanse på Gardermoen, hadde de en tegner som kommenterte innlegget gjennom ord og tegninger.

Tegneren sa ingen ting, men formidlet likevel mange treffsikre budskap. Det minnet meg om hvor viktig tegning er som språk.

Små barn uttrykker seg mer gjennom tegning enn gjennom skriftspråk. Etter hvert som vi blir eldre, i alle fall har det vært slik for meg, så blir tegning mindre og mindre brukt. Synd egentlig, for det å tegne er et …

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By the admission of the acting government spokesman, the anti-government red shirts under the banner of United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) are now prevalent in no fewer than 38 of Thailand's 76 provinces, predominantly in the populous Northeast and North.

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But the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, its backers in the army and elsewhere, and the yellow-shirted People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) still do not …

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The Nation reports:

The Cambodian government sent a strongly-worded letter Friday to US internet giant Google, complaining that its online Google Earth map incorrectly places parts of the 11th century Preah Vihear temple in Thailand.

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Friday’s letter called on Google to withdraw the map, calling its demarcation of the border “radically misleading and totally misguided” for showing “almost half of the temple in Thailand.”

And Xinhua has a follow-up …

Thai Army BkkTusenvis av soldater skal utstasjoneres i Bangkok i forbindelse med rettsaken som skal avgjøre hva som skal skje med verdier på 76 milliarder thaibath som står frosset på bankkonto i Thailand. Pengene tilhører den avsatte og korrupsjonsdømte eksstatsministeren Thaksin Shinawatra og hans familie.

I provinsene har opptrappingen allerede startet og hele 37 provinser i tillegg til Bangkok vil få økt sikkerhet. I Bangkok vil det bli satt opp over 200 kontrollpunkter skriver The Nation. …

OpenAgile is similar to Scrum in many respects. Both are systems for delivering value to stakeholders. Both are agile methods. Both are frameworks that deliberately avoid giving all the answers. So why would we choose OpenAgile over Scrum?

The most important difference is in applicability: Scrum is designed to help organizations optimize new software product development, whereas OpenAgile is designed to help anyone learn to deliver value effectively.

OpenAgile is an improvement over Scrum in …

Various army brass and units keep coming out in support of their chief General Anupong Paojinda and to attack Major-General Khattiya Sawasdipol. Anupong claims that he “did not know in advance about the display of support…” (Bangkok Post, 29 January 2010).

It seems odd that the army’s senior officer would not know that large numbers of troops were going to be involved in such parades: “17 battalions held ceremonies yesterday to swear an oath that they would not allow anyone to offend their …

Human Rights Watch produced its annual report on Thailand this past week, and PPT posted on this. PPT thinks HRW get it about right on the deterioration of human rights in the country.

However, the government’s chief of censorship and royalist cheerleader Prime Minister’s Office Minister Sathit Wongnongtoey has been reported in the Bangkok Post (24 January 2010) as “slamming” the HRW report “as a distortion, and questioned its sources of information.”

Interestingly, this last point sees …

In December last year, the new leader of the Patani United Liberation Organisation (PULO), Nur Abdurrahman, gave an interesting interview with the Turkish newspaper, World Bulletin.

In this interview, Nur pointed out the diverse sources of migration into Patani, including Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen.

Nur highlighted his own descent from migrants from Istanbul, who arrived in Patani during the time of the Ottoman Caliphate. He stated, ‘I am originally a Turk and an Istanbulite’, a …

There are several areas of politics that have seen regression over the past decade, especially in the human rights arena and in the military’s political role. On the latter, Marwaan Macan-Markar

In The Irrawaddy (6 January 2010) has a useful perspective, drawing on the role the military played in engineering the forced repatriation of Hmong to Laos.

He says that the “recent deportation of Hmong asylum seekers to Laos has shown that Thailand’s powerful military remains the dominant player in …

[FACT comments: What is most interesting about these Thai anti-communist propaganda posters from the 1960s is that , even then, they dare not mention the overthrow of the monarchy as in Laos. It is decidedly scary deja vu that these same stock concepts are being used by govt against Redshirts today.]

Thai Anti-Communist Propaganda Pictures From The 1960s

Kai Pan

CNReviews: April 30, 2009

http://cnreviews.com/life/society-culture/thailand-anti-communist-propaganda-pictures-1 …

The site seems …

Prachatai has a report (30 December 2009) that is based on a 26 December report in the Thai Post that reveals the increasing angst amongst the government and its supporters.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, as Chair of the National Police Policy Commission, is reported to have told 337 police commanders from all over the country that “the first priority for the police is to protect and uphold the monarchy.”

Abhisit blamed “certain groups of people” for dragging the monarchy into political …

In a 30 Dec ASTV Manager report, Suriyasai Katasila, Secretary-General of the New Politics Party, said that 2010 would be a turning point for Thailand when Thaksin Shinawatra will collaborate with leftists to overthrow the current regime and establish a new one.

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It is likely that they will use military troops to stage a coup, or use other violent means.  Thailand’s security apparatus needs a major overhaul to cope with the threats from Thaksin, which will affect national security …

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Julegaver gir et samfunnsøkonomisk tap på milliarder, fastslår gledesdrepende økonomiprofessor.

Jeg har tidligere skrevet om økonomiprofessoren Joel Waldfogel, som ble smått legendarisk for å ha gått løs på julegaver med analysebrillene på.

Tidlig på 1990-tallet skrev han artikkelen The Deadweigh Loss of Christmas. Waldfogel undersøkte hvor mye man egentlig ville betalt for gavene man fikk til jul, og han fant ut at svaret var vesentlig mindre enn gavene kostet. Avviket var minst hvis gaven kom …

<img>[Continuing big sister site Gamasutra's 2009 retrospective, Tim W. and Mike Rose of IndieGames.com examine this year's top 10 independent games from their unique micro-indie perspective. Previously on Gama: Top 5 Biz Trends, Top 5 iPhone Games, Top 5 Controversies, Top 5 PC Games, Top 5 Handheld Games Of 2009, Top 5 Console Downloadable Games, Top 5 Major Industry Events and Top 5 Developers.]

It's been an incredible year for fans of indie games. The 2010 Independent Games Festival …

Ved årskiftet får vi en ny utlendingslov i dette landet. Denne loven inneholder innstramninger når det gjelder familieinnvandring og familiegjenforening, bla. så skjerpes kravet til underhold. Jeg har nettopp blitt kjent med en liten med, etter min mening, ganske dramatisk endring når det gjelder norske barns samvær med sine foreldre.

Jeg snakker om §44 i den nye loven som lyder slik:

§ 44 Familiegjenforening mellom norsk barn og barnets mor eller far

En søker som er mor eller far til norsk barn …

Monarchies and Political Systems Discussed in Bangkok

Simon Roughneen

The Irrawaddy: December 8, 2009

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17365

online journalism imageToday’s demand for programmer/journalists is one sign of how the Internet has changed the newsroom. While the role has become crucial to many forward-thinking news organizations, traditional newsrooms are often still struggling to integrate programmer/journalists into their everyday workflow.

I spoke to some programmer/journalists about their hybrid roles in news coverage. They had much to offer about the new frontiers of journalism, and how programmer/journalists …

A few days ago PPT posted a link to a story on an Institute of Security and International Studies meeting at Chulalongkorn University and presentations was by the ambassadors of Japan, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands. Since then, the Bangkok Post has had a report or summary of some points masquerading as an op-ed by Achara Ashayagachat (9 December 2009: “Public support is key to royals’ survival”). Netherlands Ambassador Tjaco van den Hout seems to have a problem with her reporting and the …

It is a busy news day, and PPT hopes that readers will click back through the stories we are posting. The Nation has a rash of quite bizarre op-eds and reports in its 10 December issue, with the op-ed writers being more frenzied in their anti-red shirt tales than usual.

In this post, though, we half wonder if there is a tiny connection between two of their stories.

The first, widely-reported story, is of Thai Airways International seeking civil damages of 575 million baht from the leaders of the …

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King asked to pardon Internet users prosecuted on lese majeste or national security charges

Reporters Without Borders: December 4, 2009

http://www.rsf.org/King-asked-to-pardon-Internet.html

Reporters Without Borders has written to King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the eve of his birthday on 5 December asking him to pardon Thai Internet users who are in jail or who are being prosecuted in connection with the dissident views they allegedly expressed online.

“By agreeing to this request, the king …

For the developer evaluating programming languages the question of which languages to learn rarely involves "can this language do what I want it to do?" This is because virtually all programming languages (except ANSI SQL, if you consider it a language) are Turing Complete. Instead, what I see, over and over, is discussions over two things:

• Can I get a job in this language?
• Do I like this language?

So consider COBOL. Yes, I can get a job in that language, but do I like it? No. C is the same …

Hver dag fram til jul legger jeg ut en side eller et oppslag fra juleheftet Makan til julenisse! Siden dette er første "luke" har jeg lagt ut både en side og et oppslag - for å dra igang historien og sette julestemningen med en gang.

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Veera Prateepchaikul in the Bangkok Post (30 November 2009: “Pa Prem left by his ’sons’ to fend for himself after attacks”) worries that Privy Council President, General Prem Tinsulanonda has been abandoned by a bunch of ingrates who are allowing him to be attacked by foul-mouthed politicians.

Prem, accused of being the “invisible hand” or the “extra-constitutional power” behind the political events since the 2006 coup. Some would argue that he has been …

I've been working a new a project recently, Markdent, an event-driven Markdown parser toolkit.

Why? Because the existing Perl Markdown tools just aren't flexible enough. They bundle up Markdown parsing with HTML conversion all in one API, and I need to do more than convert to HTML.

This sort of inflexibility is quite common when I look at CPAN libraries. Looking back at the Perl DateTime Project, one of my big problems with all the other date/time modules on CPAN was their lack of flexibility. …

There has been some discussion recently as to whether the Thai constitution (2007 version) guarantees the rights of all persons, or just Thais. This is, in fact, a minor issue when compared with the special rights that some Thais have created for themselves, and which the rest of world knows nothing about.

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Yesterday’s leader in the Bangkok Post quotes Santi Vilassakdanont, President of the Federation of Thai Industries, on a proposed bill to give parliament the …

Yesterday I wanted to create a graph of 4 series of numbers along an x axis representing time. I know some GD related modules can do this so I wondered over to search.cpan.org and looked at some of the modules. The problem I encountered is lack of examples and lack of display of results.

Of course search.cpan is just a search engine that should display textual results but did not know where should I go to find a few charts created by a Perl module so I can see which module can generate the …

In recent days police in Thailand arrested and charged another person over causing a decline in the stock market by spreading rumours through the Internet about the king's health. 

According to news reports, Tassaporn Ratawongsa, 42, a radiologist at the Thonburi Hospital was arrested on 18 November 2009 and charged under section 14 of the Computer Crime Act BE 2550 (2007) with distributing "false computer data in a manner that is likely to damage the country's …

confused-full After you have played around with the latest Android package for a while I am pretty sure you have began to note the missing features and other issues. Most of these are probably being worked on as you read this and much of the result from that work comes out in form of new kernel images. If you already know about Glemsom's autobuild service, you can stop reading now. If you are still wondering what I'm talking about, keen on reading.

If you want to write tests for your JavaScript code from Perl, Claes’ module Test::JavaScript::More comes in handy. This module works by evaling everything from the use line as JavaScript. Of course, now you’re mixing two languages in one file, which is not going to make any of your syntax validators happy. However, loading it like this will please both perl and jslint:

m| /* |; # Comment out JavaScript
use Test::JavaScript::More;
__END__ = '';  // It's is all JS from here. */
ok(1,'Success!');

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android_kernelmake_251 After the release of the new Touch Pro package earlier today, I have gotten confirmation that it also works on the DIAM100. So it patched together a few things along with a correct startup.txt and uploaded the package for the Diamond. Its now available and reports say its equally brilliant as it is on the Touch Pro.

Give it a go and let us know how it works for you! :) Be aware that CDMA devices might have problems running it.

Use of Computer Act questioned

Thaweeporn Kummetha

The Nation: November 3, 2009

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/11/03/politics/politics_30115746.php

Critics have questioned the use of the Computer Crime Act against two Thais who were charged with spreading online rumors about the King’s health during the panic selling in the local stock market earlier this month.

The two suspects were yesterday said to be avid participants in the websites they posted information on. This weakened the …