http://www.pavion.net Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:37:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I advertised 350 DVD's on Cragslist. I got a reply yesterday that was - to me - very obviously a scam. I am interested to buy your item also Willing to make the purchase today for my pastor that is doing his 50 years aniversary in AFRICA. Is ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/can-you-spot-the-scam/ Why do Thai builders fail to understand that apartments cannot work with just one plug socket in each room? This week we added at least 10 additional sockets to our new place and I've realized now that Thais and farangs don't see eye to eye when it comes to living ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/thais-and-their-plug-sockets/ I really enjoyed this book as it was very different to what I expected from Archer.  I'd always assumed he wrote exclusively murder-mystery but this novel, set in England in the early 20th century was a refreshing change. It follows the life of a young barrow boy caled Charlie ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/book-review-as-the-crow-flies-jeffrey-archer/ Another disappointing read really so it's another book I'm glad I've finished.  The story itself was ok, it followed a group of imprisoned judges who operated a blackmail scam from prison that targeted closet homosexual professionals and also upon a man who the CIA had decided to pupeteer to ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/book-review-the-brethren-john-grisham/ The past 7 days have perhaps been the most productive I've experienced in Thailand. I've always claimed that it is impossible to do more than two things in one day over here.  Any task seems to take half a day of ones time or half a day of ones energy ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/getting-things-done/ It's rare that I give up on a book completely but my pleasure rfom this rubbish came from the exhileration I felt closing it for good, about 1/3 of the way through. The book I guess tries to be a psychological thriller about a madman who mubled crypic details ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/book-review-monster-jonathan-kellerman/ Despite the best of plan and precautions we found ourselves at the mercy of UOB bank today after deciding to work with them for our mortgage. Their credit scoring is based on income minus expenses each month and we were told that to get a 4 million baht mortgage we ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/uob-bank-do-not-keep-their-word/ One of my biggest grievances online is with people who confuse the words 'lose' and 'loose'. This week I was planning to buy myself a domain name to teach people how not to look so damn illiterate and I noticed many of the domains I wanted were taken. I decided ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/the-website-i-dreamt-of-making/ I tend to treat comparisons with "The Da Vinci Code" as a red flag when reading book reviews but I'm trying to clear out all the books people have left me. The reviews on the back come from such credible sources as the "Sunday Express" and the book has ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/book-review-the-rightous-men-sam-bourne/ It's been a long journey securing a mortgage in Thailand but we've had 2 offers now and all being well we'll get a good offer from another bank this week.  Our mistake was putting all our faith in just one bank and letting them dictate their terms to us.  ... http://www.pavion.net/index.php/a-pain-in-the-asset/