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The buzz in the news and around the internet is that the price of rice has gone up quite a bit in Thailand. Some local sources have confirmed this and they say they have seen in almost double in some places. I remember eating Rice with almost every meal when I was in Thailand, so I wonder how this will effect the Thai people. I also hope that the price increase is passed to the farmers so they can earn a bit more for their hard work.

I am very impressed with the new release from Ubuntu and will make this the desktop on many of my old computers. Simply download the image file from the internet then use your favorite program to burn the image to disk and your ready to go. It takes up a little under 700 MB on the disk and has many features you would need. Its comes with openoffice.org and the gimp for your graphics needs. The graphical user interface is perfect with not to much bloat dedicated to unwanted special effects.

I am very excited to try out the new Ubuntu desktop edition on one of my computers to check out some of the new features of this Linux distribution. For those of you who haven't yet given Linux a spin try out this distro and see for yourself how easy Linux can be. Its supports many languages and has all the features that you could ever need. I will be posting again in the next few days about my experiences with this new release. I am also interested to know if their is a big following for Linux… Continue

I like to listen to Thai Music even though I do not understand many of the words, its nice to hear some songs from a country I love so much. One station that I enjoy the most is Thailand Radio which plays a variety of different Thai songs, and most of them are really cool. I am a big fan of the old style traditional Thai music, but I also enjoy much of the modern songs. Continue

One Cool thing about Windows Vista is the option to create movies from your video clips from your video camera or other devices. You can use the movie maker feature in windows vista home premium and above to create some nice video clips with effects and titles for upload. I usually save my files as Windows Media Video and condense the size down quite a bit. Here is a clip I created using the windows movie maker option in Windows Vista Home Premium.… Continue