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May also be worth looking at and posing the same question on http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/ Alan

Shellman, you may also find some useful information on http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/ However, as the others have said, make sure that you have a valid work permit before undertaking ANY kind of work. Alan

I've noticed the same, Emil Alan

The Germans were less than impressive in their draw with Latvia earlier today and could now fail to qualify for the knockout stages. Now, all I need to make me REALLY happy is to see both Croatia and Switzerland win on Monday. Alan PS A recent poll suggested that 60% of Scots would be supporting England during the championships. It seems that I and many others I know are in the minority

My return ticket from Edinburgh to Bangkok (via Heathrow) shows taxes totalling £84.80. Part of this will be the UK's tax for 2 internal flights. On top of this there is the 500 baht departure tax payable on departure from Bangkok. (I assume that this hasn't increased since I was there last November). Alan

On a tv programme about the 80's the other night, they had Tina Charles on who reached number 1 with "I love to love" in February 1976. - A remix re-entered the charts reaching the dizzy heights of no 67 in 1986 hence the reason she was on the 80's show Also, Art Garfunkel's "I only have eyes for you". Alan

You haven't eaten this as well, Monkeyman, have you? Alan

Not yet, but heading that way soon. Alan

Just a follow up - Continental's inaugural flight from Edinburgh was today (to Newark) rather than New York. The flight was 15 minutes late departing due to "equipment problems". I'm not sure what planes they're using - probably a 777(?) as I don't think that the runway at Edinburgh is long enough for 747's. easyJet have good deals to Luton and Stansted though the downside is that you will probably still have to get over to Heathrow or Gatwick for the flight to New York. It could work out cheaper (certainly more convenient) flying down to Heathrow or Gatwick with BA as many of their in

Hub, as far as I'm aware the only airline that fly to Edinburgh from New York is Continental Airlines. I did a quick search on Expedia - www.expedia.co.uk - and depending on dates the lowest cost seemed to be around £392 but this was flying via Amsterdam! I dare say that cheaper options will be available - particularly via London. It may also be cheaper to fly from Glasgow rather than Edinburgh. Alan

Accessed it now. It seems that when I copies and pasted the address the www. from the previous web-site I had visited wasn't over written hence the error! Alan

Dave, Tried to access the web-site but it seems that the address you posted may be wrong. Can you re-post the address, please? Thanks. Alan

I thought that there had been a limit for some time on the maximum weight for any particular case. What concerns me more as a passenger though is the weight of the bags taken into the cabin. I am sure that there is meant to be a limit of around 7 kilos for them but many bags are obviously well in excess of that. Someone could easily be killed if one of these heavier bags were to fall onto their head. Also, many of the bags are considerably bigger than the maximum dimensions that are supposed to be allowed. It would seem that some people are trying to avoid paying excess baggage by taking

So I take it from some of the comments here that the Hammers didn't live up to their name? Ah well, tomorrow will doubtless see Scotland's next footballing disaster as they beat Trinidad & Tobago 1 - 0 thanks to an own goal in extra time. Alan

I didn't have any problems with the safe during my stay at the RG but I DID have a problem with the door to my room. I had paid my bill at Reception and had gone back up to my room to bring my cases etc down and I couldn't open the door. So back down to Reception where they re-set the mechanism on the door. Back up again but still no joy. It ended up with the receptionist coming up to the room with a device they must use in emergencies or power cuts, Now that WOULD have been a novel excuse for missing the plane home and for being a day late back to work Alan

Gus, A couple of possibilities. I seem to recall that the last time I had to log on, there was a box which said something along the lines "Remember me in future". Have you tried checking this box? Also, for the site to know who you are in future you have to allow cookies to be stored on your PC. I occasionally delete all cookies stored on my PC and when I do this I then have to log back on to this site. I try now to check out what cookies have been stored on my PC on a regular basis and delete those I don't want. Alan

I've never had a problem with hotel safes though be warned that many of the electronic ones require a battery for part of their operation. A fellow guest at the RG experienced battery failure one night and it was 2 hours before some one came down from Bangkok to fix it! Still. he had his tg with him at the time so unlikely that the wait was totally wasted Alan

Pieman's right, Jack. One advantage of getting the 60 day visa in the UK is that it can then be extended for, I think, a further 30 days. The cost of the visa in the UK is, I think £30 for a single entry visa. Check out the Thai Visa site for more information http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/ I think the visa can be obtained from any of the Thai consulates in the UK but those in Hull, Birmingham and I believe, Cardiff are apparently particularly helpful. Alan

Triplegee, you're a genius! I ran Hijack This again and deleted the files you suggested and then restarted my PC. That seems to have done the trick as the Systems32 folder did not open up automatically. In fact neither did my calendar but I know how to fix that. I haven't so fat tried deleting some of the other files you suggested but I'll look at these later. Thanks for all your help. Alan

Triplegee. Thanks for that. I use AOL and AIM but I'll have a go at deleting the others. I'll let you know how I get on. Alan

Expensive repair, yes - but look on the bright side - at least this didn't happen when the plane was landing. Alan

Babepecker, I seem to have got rid of the verisign.com web-site trying to start up AOL. I've had a few problems with this in the past but deleting all unwanted cookies has usually resolved the problem. Triplegee, I've now download and run Hijack This. The attached is what it produced - Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 21:46:36, on 27/05/2004 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsas

I ususally tip taxi drivers 100 baht. One guy wanted more but I wasn't having it particularly as his ability to navigate form Sukhumwit Road to the Residence Gardens was virtually non-existant. I had to tell him at one point to do a U turn on Sukhumwit Road as he had gone way past the right turn off. Alan

OK guys, I tried Housecall but it found nothing untoward on my pc. Also, I updated my Ad-aware programme, which removed a few items that had previously been undetected. None of these have solved the problems I've been having. I don't think there is anything major wrong with my PC as I'm sure something else would have manifested itself by now. It's just a pain in the arse having to close down the system 32 folder every time I switch the PC on. I have hidden the contents of the folder so I can't inadvertently delete anything that is vital to the PC's operation. Any other suggestions?