Christian Dating Web Site

Information for Christians wanting to find new relationships or dates.

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Video Slide Show

In Praise of Asian Women -- is a video slide show of nude Asian (mostly Thai) women. It's in WMV format, so won't run on a Mac unless you have Bootcamp or Parallels.

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Thailand-Related Videos

Videos about Thailand, Thai Culture, Thai Food, Learning Thai, Thailand Tourism, Thailand Ladyboys, Thailand Bar Girls:
http://www.learn-faster.org/Thai/Videos/

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Real Life Thai Soap Opera

For quite a while now, I have been following with fascination the writings of Bill Yaryan on his blog located at http://wyaryan.blogspot.com/

Starting a year ago, when he arrived in Bangkok in late August 2007, he has been chronicling his life in Thailand, including falling in love with a Thai lady half his age. He has been writing about his feelings and emotions as the relationship had its ups and downs, and now in September 2008, it has ended. The primary problem was "loss of face". His Thai partner, Pim, could not tell her family and friends that she was living with an old farang. At one point, she suggested he marry her mother.

He lived on Sukhumvit Soi 4 for quite a while, and includes a lot of pictures of that area. This makes me homesick for Bangkok, as I spent 2.5 years in that area, living at Amar Garden on Soi 2 and then Nana Condo on Soi 4 while I wrote Speak Easy Thai and got it packaged and finished and into the bookstores.

Bill was in Berkeley, California, in the sixties, and got into the music business and met many famous people, such as Bob Dylan. Berkeley was the centre of the "flower-power revolution"; I was a teen in Toronto, Canada, at the time.

His story of his relationship with Pim, including the letters she wrote to him, makes for fascinating reading. I suspect his relationship is typical of many young Thai woman - old farang man relationships, but I do have two Canadian friends who married educated Thai women close to their own ages; those relationships have lasted many years. Sphere: Related Content

Amazing Thailand - Prime Minister Convicted

Today Prime Minister Samak was convicted of a conflict of interest by the Constitution Court because he hosts a TV cooking show. Or perhaps one could turn it around: TV Cooking Show Host Convicted for Impersonating a Prime Minister.

Thailand never ceases to amaze me. Sphere: Related Content

The Latest Thailand Unrest

Whatever you think about Thailand's version of "democracy", there is no denying that Thai people themselves care deeply about freedom and good government, even if they don't always get it. In Western countries, most of us are pretty passive about the government. In the US, where millions loath George Bush and the Military-Industrial Complex, only a few people actually protest. Most people are apathetic, loath to do anything confrontational.

Not so in Thailand.

Here is a BBC news clip about today's activities in Thailand.

I never really understood why George Bush attacked Iraq after the World Trade Centre bombing, rather than Saudi Arabia, where the attackers originated, or Afghanistan or Pakistan which supposedly harboured Osama Bin Laden. Oh, I forgot, Iraq has oil and the despotic rulers of Saudi Arabia are friends of the Bush family.

But in Thailand, people either support the government or don't, and when they don't, they are not quiet about it. Sphere: Related Content

Got a Dog?

New site on pet training and health care.

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World's Best Anti-Virus Just Got Better

Symantec Norton 360, 2008 edition, is the world's best and most popular anti-virus and Internet security software. It now uses 1/4 the amount of memory as previous editions and runs considerably faster as well.

I have used AVG Free Anti-Virus and got annoyed with the intrusive pop-up messages whenever it does an update. I would be typing something in Microsoft Word and then all of a sudden, my system starts beeping madly with each keystroke. Turns out AVG popped up a message saying it had done an update, press the OK button to continue. All my keystrokes that should have gone into Word instead went into the OK button, which beeped because they were the wrong keys. Arrgh! Why can't they just do the update and not tell me about it? It was so stupid and happened so often that I deleted AVG.

I have also used the free PC Tools Anti-Virus which has a "Smart Update" which is not very smart. It pops up a message in the right corner of the screen saying an update is available, but most of the message is immediately hidden by a Windows security message saying PC Tools is not up to date. The Windows message goes away after a few seconds, and about 1 second later, so does the PC Tools message. There is no time to click on it. Then the PC Tools icon stays grey, indicating that it is not up to date. Well, come on, you just told me the update was available, why didn't you download it? Instead, I have to open PC Tools, click on Update, watch the update window appear, click OK to download, then OK again to get rid of the damn thing. Not very smart, but you get what you pay for.

Worse, one day I did a full system scan with PC Tools and let it run in the background. When I checked it a couple of hours later, it had deleted over a hundred files that it said were infected with a virus. Now I know there is no virus because I scan frequently. I did a Google search on the error message and sure enough, it was a "false positive"; that is, PC Tools recognised something that was not actually a virus. The PC Tools web site said yes, they did a boo-boo, download the latest update, which I did, but it did not fix the error.

So I switched back to Norton. The 2008 edition is what it should have been 5 years ago. It runs fast, takes less memory, and has silent updates. Yes, you have to pay an annual subscription, and yes, it costs money to get started, but like I said before, you get what you pay for.

Free stuff is sometimes not worth the price.

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An Amazing Young Woman

While wasting time browsing the Internet the other day, I came across the story of a young American woman named Holly Mann, who is an Iraqi war vet, and a single mother of a 3 year old boy. She's only 25 and lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

What's remarkable is that, after her service in Iraq, she was living in the US, pregnant and penniless, and decided to do something bold to change her life. For six months she read all she could about Internet Marketing, read about the scams, learned what successful marketers do, and after her baby was born, sold everything to pay for her airline ticket, and flew to Thailand. She had a small pension coming in from her Army service, and lived on that.

Within 4 months, however, she was bringing in over US$12,000 a month through her Internet Marketing efforts.

The story of how she did that makes fascinating reading. She bases her success on offering straight-up, honest ways to make money, no scams. She calls herself "Honest Holly" and has written a book called "Honest Riches" which is available here. If you've been thinking about trying to make some money on the side, you would be hard pressed to find a better mentor. Sphere: Related Content

High Fuel Prices and What To Do About It

With all the excitement over rising gasoline/petrol prices, I did a little research on using a water-based fuel cell. They are cheap and easy to build. Basically, they use electrolysis to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen gases. The unstable mixture is called Oxyhydrogen and has the chemical symbol HHO (as opposed to liquid water which is H2O). The gas is injected into the incoming air stream to the engine, which means that the efficiency of the engine improves. When HHO burns, it recombines back to water. This means that the pistons now have water in them, as well as gasoline. Does this damage the pistons? Apparently not. People report that the engine runs smoother, less pinging and knocking.

I have read reports from many people saying they got 50% or better gas mileage.

Since water is a lot cheaper than gasoline, this seems like an obvious way to go. One wonders why car manufacturers don't provide this as an option, or even as a permanent feature.

What does it cost? Less than $100, including the self-help instruction guide.

And how do you do it?

The equipment necessary is not complicated, basically a glass or plastic jar of a litre or so in volume, with electrolysis plates or coils inside, filled with water. You need electricity to make the electrolysis happen; this comes from the car battery. You also need a hose to connect from the top of the jar to the air intake of the motor. This feeds the gas into the engine.

I made a web site to talk about this in more detail. It's at
http://www.maximize-income.info/Water4Cars Sphere: Related Content

Why I Travel

Where the hell is Matt?

http://www.vimeo.com/1211060

If the video is jerky, press the pause button and let the buffer fill up, then press play again.

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Isaan Blog

Today I discovered another Thailand blog; this one has a lot of good pictures about Surin and other parts of Isaan. It’s at http://isanthailand.blogspot.com/ Sphere: Related Content