Stories from monland, etc.

[grrr]

Hi...

I live in a pretty remote Mon (Burmese ethnic minority) village in central/western Thailand. My girlfriend (from Chiang Rai) and I teach English to children and teenagers for free, and I also teach web design and programming to a dedicated Mon guy. We generally have fun. Anyway, I've made a website where I post stories from here, along with other random things to read from friends all over the world. Stop by for a look: http://technokracy.net

[MaiChai]

What did you use to build your site?

[grrr]

The main site is based on Geeklog (http://www.geeklog.net/), a very well done portal/blog package that is open source and uses PHP and MySQL. I'm a PHP programmer, so I played with it a little, and also created my own "theme" for the site from scratch. My blog page uses Blosxom (http://www.blosxom.com/), an incredible single file (450 lines of perl) script. I played with that a little too. Both are working out great! I wrote a PHP command line script allowing me to simply send an email to a special address I set up and have the email body posted on my blog page. Great for travelling!

[bangkokblue]

Hi grrr, Interesting stuff. Will the new immigration regs be of any fret on your lifestyle and obvious benevolent self.

[grrr]

If you are referring to the visa agent/fake visa crackdown, no problem for me. We take a trip to Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, and Mae Sai every three months. It's nice to get away...