Monthly Archives: May 2007

I was surfing on graysonline yesterday and came across an auction for boxes of 250 stress builing block (like lego).  I saw these at Tech Ed last year and they are pretty cool as you can build stuff out of … Continued

While working on my migration to Version 5 of Virtual Earth I side track to look at the new method to customise the info box (pin popup) and find 2 showstopping issues. View the article here.

I got access to the alpha of popfly today and have been dragging and dropping mashups together all morning. This is simply hooking up the rss feed from Bronwens best of thailiand photos to a photo sphere control   The … Continued

Well it seems that 4 is the number of 2007.  For those who’ve seen my IM tags for the last few months.  We ordered a new bed from Forty Winks 4 months ago!  Today, after having 3 broken beds delivered, our 4th … Continued

Always hate trying to park in town and today remembered why.  Had a meeting at 10:30 in town today…thought getting there at 10:10 would give me heaps of time to find a park… I drive round a few streets and … Continued

My contract with Faces expired the day before we went on holidays..and I went away with them discussing my contract renewal terms.  Yesterday..still no written confirmation on renewal so I asked for confirmation before doing any work. This worked out … Continued

After a lot of culling etc we’ve finished playing with our pics we’re uploading our pics. If you want the short version the best of is here: http://bronwenz.smugmug.com/gallery/2845629#152503668 and the rest can be found here: http://bronwenz.smugmug.com/Vacation/298124

So we skipped the tigers, and watched 2 more movies…Next – Nicolas Cage which wasn’t bad and Shooter – Marky Mark which filled in time.  So now we’re at the airport..and waiting for our flight like 4 hrs away..and then … Continued

So we fly into Bangkok again today..only a few days before our journey home.  We’re over temples and after something to do…so we go for a journey to the cinema to see Spiderman 3.  The movie is crap by the … Continued

So we slept in today..so there really wasn’t much point in hiring a car.  Instead we used the vouchers i’d snigged at the airport with free transportation to the monkey place.  So we get the hotel to call for us … Continued

Today we get a private tour to the handicraft villages in Chiang Mai.  Our guide has forgotten us so the hotel rings him for us.  Works out well as it gives us some time to grab breakfast.  There’s somethig wrong … Continued

We get up pretty early for a huge breakfast..we’re talking a whole watermelone, 3/4 loaf of bread + a huge dish of something else…my foot is so sore (I can hear my Mum saying “why do you play those silly games?”) … Continued

We get up and are met with breakfast…too much food again…won’t be complaining about being hungry.  So today we go to see a tribal elder, a cave (no crawling this time) and sleep in the Karen village. We meet our guides … Continued

So this morning we get picked up for the start of our 3 day jungle trek. It’s raining so we’ll be needing our raincoats…So after a 1 1/2 hr drive to Chiag Dao Nest we get our brekkie and organise our … Continued

While at the cooking course i went to show some monkey pics…but couldn’t find them.  On closer inspection all the pics from Wednesday – monkeys, and night pics of ruins are gone!    I’m hoping they’re in a directory and … Continued

Today we learn how to cook.  We get picked up and taken to the cooking school.  We are joined by 2 Brittish boys.  So after choosing the dishes we want to eat, our instructor takes us to the market to … Continued

So we try to sleep in, but someone calls us like 6 times at 5am..grr.  We pack up our stuff, have a late breakfast, grab out stuff from the safe, jump on the internet and check out.  Our “limo driver” … Continued

So we skip out on Bangkok and stay in Ayuttaya tonight.  We have some dinner and about 8:20pm we wander out to grab a tuk-tuk to take us to the temples to take some night pics. The driver tells us … Continued

Michelle and Ewa recommended going to Lop buri – 1 hr north on the train from Ayutthaya.  I love monkies so off we went.  We’re running late for the 8:37 train and there’s no tuk-tuk in sight.  We arrive at … Continued

After the excitement of a new baby elephant last night everyone slept in.  So with nobody in sight I did a bit of a wander around the camp.  It’s raining today so the day spot for the elephants has turned … Continued

We get some news that one of the mother’s could give birth tonight!  It could be soon…or hours.  John and I decide to stay up and wait.  It’s not too long (not sure if it was just before or after … Continued

The director of Elephant Stay also owns a boat the cruises up the river in Ayutthaya.  Tonight we are priveleged to be invited to go to dinner on the boat.  So we all pile into 2 cars and head off. … Continued

Here at Elephant Stay the have had 9 babies in 2 years…now that’s a lot of little elephants.  They’ve currently got a 2 week old and a 1 day old.  The 2 week old is getting quite boisterous and runs … Continued

Joe from Aussie Dog toys has come to ElephantStay to fit some elephant shoes.  Odd you might think…but elephants need their feet protected too.  The slight complication is the elephant whose shoes need to be fitted is in musk and … Continued

Today was the start of our 3 day elephant experience at elephantstay. So for 3 days we get to look after – ride, scrub, wash, feed, walk etc. our own elephant (we’re sharing one which works out well as one … Continued

So we get a cab to the train station and a quick lesson on how to prounouce Ayutthaya. Helpful person #3 tells us where to go to buy the ticket and what platform to go to.  Our train tickets are … Continued

So we get up pretty early cause at 7am it feels like 10am and pack up our stuff ready to stash our bags for the day.  Go to put my Bangkok Lonely Planet in my shoulder bag and can’t find … Continued

So we arrived at the airport just over 3hrs early in hope of securing ourselves a decent seat.  When we found Thai airways we were met with a very long queue and came to the realisation that we were probably … Continued