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.... I wonder if there is a way to block them like in FB, or Google+ (from my side)?

Yes there is. Click on your username top right of each page then Manage 'Ignore' prefs, and add their username to your ignore list.

Good for the airport. The majority of lanterns are drifting away from it this year.

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You might find a backpacker around town who is heading to Laos who will buy it. Or perhaps one of the Laos tour agencies might buy Kip.

Then drop the proceeds in a charity box

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Btw, the salt plates will go cloudy fairly quickly if not stored in a dessicator

Could you ask the Faculty of Chemistry to help you out? Cylindrical salt plates about 2.5cm in diameter are used to sandwich samples going into the IR Spectrometer. These are highly transparent (when new) , defect free and pre-polished.

Like the ones in this article http://orgchem.colorado.edu/Technique/Procedures/IR/IRliquid.html

In the 2006 plan the network would be underground in the inner city and then run above ground. Only the red and the blue lines would be built initially.

A feasibility study was done over 10 years ago and routes were laid out. This looks like the same plan getting an airing again.

Here is an article about it from 2006 that shows the proposed lines and stations.

http://2bangkok.com/2bangkok-masstransit-chiangmain.html

http://youtu.be/EI-_dKFQNPg

PSY has said he just wanted to make people smile and not take themselves too seriously. Here are a few Thais who get the joke. These 'gangstas' need to get with the program! This song has made millions smile. That cant be a bad thing.

if the machine you are looking at has a connection to the internet just go to this page and cycle through the black, white, red, green and blue page links as instructed. Dead pixels can be black or stuck on one colour of white, blue, red or green these single colour pages make them stand out.

http://jasonfarrell.com/misc/deadpixeltest.php

Try one of these players.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1819844.html

The main brand for this type of trap in Thailand is Black Hole. Homepro usually only carry the smaller sizes but can order the big ones if that is what you want.

Fiberglass insulation batts might work. Really you want the proper industrial stuff, but I don't know about your chances of finding it here. There must be a supplier in Bangkok somewhere though.

Something like this http://www.industria..._insulation.htm

Temperature limits of some common insulation materials are indicated in the table below:

HINT: do not believe everything (or is it "anything") you read...

In your case that is probably a good idea.

Richard Barrow reported it via Twitter:

Photos here

Richard Barrow ‏@191Thailand

Manager Newspaper: A bus with students from Phichet hit a pick-up truck in Chiang Mai after the breaks failed. 3 dead & 47 injured.

Updated

Richard Barrow ‏@191Thailand

UPDATE: The teachers & students were from Tetsaban 2 Tapanhin School in Phichit. Latest news 4 dead, 4 seriously hurt & 42 injured

The UN and ADB sponsored Asian Highway Project still shows the route from Myanmar running through Bangladesh. Perhaps India is going to upgrade the route through Assam itself to avoid the political difficulties of going through Bangladesh.

Partial map below. Click to enlarge. Full Asian Highway network map here as a zoomable pdf

With THAI and buying in Thailand you may well get a cheaper price from a travel agent than at the THAI office or online. Easy enough to check prices at a THAI office and then compare.

The Department of Provincial Administration publishes the population statistics for the whole kingdom, down to Tambon level, every December.

You can find it here: http://stat.dopa.go....at/popyear.html

A few notes:

1. It is not sortable, so you will have to go through every province manually.

2. It is in Thai, so if you don't read Thai, it will mean a little more work. Google Translate returns some hilarious translations, but you can still work your way through it.

3. You may need to change the text encoding of your browser. If you get gibberish (¨Ñ§ËÇÑ´/ÍÓàÀÍ/µÓºÅ), select 'View' > 'Text Encoding' from your browser's menu and change it to Thai. (This will not mess with any other page.)

I thought I would help out a bit with this. Anyone who wants to take these figures and update Wikipedia please do.

Saved at this link are the figures for 2011 from the above site transferred into an Excel spreadheet. So this list of province populations is now sortable. I wanted to upload the xls here but it is not permitted to upload that file type, so you will have to get it from this link. https://dl.dropbox.c... 2011 2554.xlsx

Here is the pdf version. Thai Provinces Population Statistics 2011 2554.pdf

I have translated the Province names to English and included them as a new column alongside the name in Thai.

In both the pdf and xls the Province names are active hyperlinks so you can go from there and drill through to the list of Tambon populations by Province online (in Thai)

Makro usually has them

While trying out these different options it would be handy to be able to see more accurately how much received signal strength is improving as you move the receiver or antenna around. Inssider a free program for Windows and Mac is great for this. http://www.metageek....ducts/inssider/

Another alternative would be to forget the wifi in the apartment and get a cheap android phone and 3G plan and use that as your wifi provider.

Emirates transport golf bags for free.

In addition to your checked baggage allowance, you may also check in

one set of golf clubs

and

one pair of golf shoes

free of charge in any class of service on any Emirates flight.

If you mean true audiophile gear you will probably save money and definitely have more selection by buying in Bangkok and shipping it back to CM.

There is a small store in the Kad Suan Kaew shopping centre that carries both new and secondhand quality gear. I think they are on level 3. Follow the signs to walk to IT City from the main part of the shopping centre and it is on the left halfway along the link between the two areas.

This might be the guy I met one day when he came into the Ninja Ramen Restaurant opposite the Apple store on Sirimankalajarn Road. He came in with several trays of pastries and some nice bread and went around the tables selling them. He was around 50 I'd say. We bought a few and they were pretty good. Looked like he was making his way around the restaurants in the area. You could try asking the staff at Ninja or other places in the Nimmanhaemin area if they have seen him lately.