joekicker

Maybe not at the very moment you read this message you don't, but within 10 minutes you could have one at Yola.com or sites.google.com or officelive.com. For example. Officelive is a terrific deal, you can have a real website (your own name, not "something.officelive.com) and thus your own email server (cousin at cousinpatts.com, say) for free for a year before you have to pay. But Yola and Google are excellent and very quick websites and you never pay. I'd say Google is better because Google won't go broke like, er, Yahoo just did with GeoCities. It's really, really easy but if you can't do it, get the office or neighbourhood geek to give you a hand and show you the ropes. These days a website is a decent idea, you can backup stuff just for starters.

Put it on a website, and reference the html address - not on your own disk. That will normally work.

Yes, I'm with you. I think it is (first of all) browser specific. These days folks go back and forth between browsers. When I crank up a new browser, I need a new cookie and have to log in. For example. I try to keep this site up in the same browser all the time, and I have no problem that I've noticed with staying logged in. Browsers these days "help" you by deleting cookies (why??? I LIKE cookies) and so do some alleged "security" programs, so I'd look there first.

My "stay logged in" works fine FWIW. As Bruce said, it SOUNDS like you're deleting cookies, maybe one of your "security" features?

Actually not. You need a national licence to OBTAIN an international licence. But when politely interrogated by the Thai police, the visitor/tourist requires only the international licence OR the national one and not both. If the session escalates, you'll need more than two driving licences anyhow. In fact, if it escalates that badly, you won't need any, there will be much more at stake. Legend has it that an international licence is the best, because it's legal AND most police have almost no knowledge about it, and so will let you go rather than try to engage you about it. Legend has it.

If you are careful about following the law as you describe, then it is a piece of cake for the lawman to know how long you have been in Thailand from the passport you carry because you are a scrupulous law-obeyer.

An international licence or any national licence is legal for tourists/visitors to drive regular vehicles -- cars, pick-ups and motorcycles included. That is no guarantee of what Somchai Peeler might tell you, however. That is a matter between him and you.

Tiger's father is by heritage black, white, (American) Indian and and Chinese (his grandmother). His mother, as you say, is fully Asian. Tiger REFUSES to call himself black, and has made up the word Cablinasian - Caucasian, black, Indian, Asian. He is not black because you say so, nor are others of mixed heritage. They are what THEY say they are, first of all - but they are what their "blood" background says. For example, Tiger Woods, by race, is mostly Asian - but by his preference is a Cablinasian. "One drop of blood" just isn't "none the less", not in the US it isn't.

Microsoft doesn't make your screen go blank if it decides your Windows XP is pirated. It MIGHT try to nag you to death but it doesn't stop anything from working. So whatever your problem with Microsoft, making your picture go away is a separate problem. Good advice above on starting in Safe mode. Then start working through the problem, like for example adding one startup program at a time until the screen blanks again. As for Microsoft, if your Windows is legit, you can call them at the place in their nag, and they'll listen to your explanation. No, I'm ALSO not a huge fan of Microsoft but I also don't think they have horns and carry a pitchfork. They don't turn off your computer and they may accept your explanation.

If you don't "trust" Active X, most screen savers and most video of every kind won't work. You trust a screen saver but don't trust Active X. I think you've got your trust backwards.

Huh? Impossible. No such person. Reminds me of the impossible description you often see of Senator Joe McCarthy of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Not possible.

Sounds like you need to upgrade or update Flash Player Ver 10 at Adobe.com

I don't think any of those listed are black unless you're a slave owner where "one drop of blood" is pretty important to your profession. I think every one of them is mixed race. The golfer is nearly 70 per cent Asian for example.

You're fortunate, although a little poorer for paying for your peace of mind. Everyone should go with the security solution they think best, whether it's the Thai security situation or computer security. However, for people who ask, I actively recommend against any Norton or Symantec security product on a PERSONAL computer. If the IT Department wants to fight them, fine. These are invasive, intrusive, rude, arrogant, slow down your computing and in no measureable way by any review ever are they better than the free stuff.

Yes, search and destroy.

This one and Ad-Aware, used separately (serially) will get everything you can get. Both free. Ad-Aware is at: http://www.lavasoft.com

Each one of them is way more likely than Thai gangs. A four-gang coalition of the above which might bomb Pattaya is also more likely than any Thai Muslim bombing in Pattaya -- southern, local, Bangkok or Chiang Mai Muslims included.

I'd sure like to hear all follow-up on this. Sure sounds deceptive and seems like AA should be responsible for a LOT of first-class travel. I wonder what the govt will say.

Well, there you go. Babies on flights don't pixx me off but people who don't read my posts they're replying to piss me off. So a bit of balance achieved. Give me a good reason why you should be on a flight.

Your tie must have been too tight when you were a kid. Not all babies on planes are going on holidays. But if they are, not all parents want (or are able) to leave their child behind on a trip.

Sorry about that. St Louis is a very big hospital on Sathorn Road in Bangkok.

What do you figure people with babies should do then? Drive? Or does having a baby in Robin's World mean you must simply stay home? Don't get me wrong, I don't actually have any babies, but I used to be one.

Strength in numbers. People who travel with young children help one another AND create enormous pressure on the airline to provide more helpful facilities. Plus, almost all people who travel with children certainly have no intention of inconveniencing others. Hmmm, weird choice of words. I have never "allowed" my kids to miss school, I INSIST on it.

According to the story you got me to click on, it IS part of the tournament round, to be used as the first extra holes in case of a tie, as I then repeated in my first post. I think it is brilliant, different and fun. I just commented I don't think it belongs in a golf tournament because it is a trick hole like a miniature golf hole. Do you think it is good golf to throw in this hole to break a tie in an otherwise ordinary tourney at an excellent course?

It looks like good fun and I'd probably play it if I got in the neighbourhood. But I'm not much for trick holes, and the idea that a really big miniature-golf trick hole would be used in a tournament playoff makes me shudder. I hate that hole, I think it's the 15th at Valderama, where if you don't hit the green exactly right, the ball comes back off the green again - exactly like miniature golf. I don't think it's a legitimate hole for real golf, sorry. Several Thai courses have a hole like that, greens sloped so that you can get close to the hole but your ball still rolls 20 yards off the green anyhow. Sorry, that's not real golf. I don't put down miniature golf but there's more luck than skill involved at these places, or at least more luck that true golf skill. You can't practice for this South African hole, you just hit some balls and hope.