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I have always stuck with IBM ThinkPad (now Levano) because I have always found them to be the most rugged and reliable. Not cheapest, and not always with the latest cool features, but reliable, reliable, reliable. And when I travel, that's what I care most about. I bought mine at PonTip Plaza in Bangkok earlier this year. The shop I got it at pre-loaded everything under the sun for me (ahem) and was very generous about maintenance. No regrets.

Nicely done. Thanks. Something to look forward to in my retirement. ;-)

The service is from a company called FuturePhone. The service is free until 2010. A bunch of articles say they don't currently support calls to cellphones, but guys here say they've done it.

The Times, Oct 6 2006 This year Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to... “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage” -- Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven for their subsequent medical case report.... WHEN a young man walked into the accident and emergency department of University Hospital in Jacksonville, Tennessee, complaining of hiccups that had lasted three days, Francis Fesmire, who treated him, had little idea he was about to make medical history. Yesterday, the American doctor’s innovative solution to the problem — an uncomfortable one that you might not wish to try at home — received the honour it deserves, an Ig Nobel Prize for research that “cannot or should not be reproduced”. After trying a variety of standard hiccup cures, such as pulling the patient’s tongue and making him gag, Dr Fesmire decided on a different approach. “Digital rectal massage was then attempted using a slow circumferential motion,” he wrote in his seminal case report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. “The frequency of hiccups immediately began to slow, with a termination of all hiccups within 30 seconds.” Dr Fesmire’s unconventional therapy has since been replicated, by Majed Odeh of Zion Medical Centre in Haifa, Israel, with whom he shared the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine, in Harvard University’s annual spoof of the real Nobel awards. The honour is given to science that “first makes people laugh and then makes them think”, and the prizes were handed out last night by seven genuine Nobel laureates. Marc Abrahams, who organises the Ig Nobels, said: “Quite why Dr Fesmire decided to try this in the first place, I am not sure. But that is why he is a pioneer of medical science, and I am not.”

Just keep in mind that happy stories are generally not written and don't sell, so the "truth" is not fully represented...I, for one, would be interested in knowing any facts from the book that stuck with you.

Don't have an answer, but a little concerned for my future consideration that you don't feel welcome in LOS. I assume it's more than just the ability to own land yourself. If you don't mind sharing, can you describe more about why you want to leave? Maybe would help others pick an alternative for you more accurately?

The title of this thread is Books on Thailand, so I won't restrict a recommendation to just the book on Sex in LOS. Consider the book The King Never Smiles. Came out in July. Not light reading, but very informative. For those that have some time on their hands...You can search the contents of the book at Amazon.

FYI, I haven't been getting this error anymore the past few night. So whatever you did, thanks!

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Duh, sorry, I found previous posts on this. I searched before but realize I didn't select to search all the threads first, so didn't find anything. QorToat!

To the left of each post is a short stat on the member, and one entry listed is "Member Group." For most members it says "Members", but for some, like myself, it says "SSG-Members". What does "SSG" mean? Is there any practical difference between someone who is marked "Member" vs. "SSG-Member"? Thanks

I've heard some U.S. gents talk glowingly about cost of living and quality of life in Costa Rica...but if you like SE Asian Women, that wouldn't do, would it.

Don't know if anyone else is seeing this, but I have begun to get this when I try to access the forum late in the evening here U.S. Central Time: IPB WARNING [2] mysql_connect(): Too many connections (Line: 131 of /ips_kernel/class_db_mysql.php) There appears to be an error with the database. You can try to refresh the page by clicking here. Error Returned SQL error: Too many connections SQL error code: Date: Thursday 21st of September 2006 04:28:26 AM We apologise for any inconvenience Presumably this is because of too many users trying to get on the forum at once. Maybe a setting needs to be changed for database connection limit ("pooling"?) Thanks, Ben

Wow. Hope the weather wasn't unbearable. When I finished the article, I noticed another link at the bottom of it that might be of interest to some guys here. Not to me, of course. But maybe somebody else... Pemature ejaculation drug said to work

I have a very fast broadband connection and a very fast computer. New version is defintely slower. Looks like the addition of some new features, slower code or database has slowed it down considerably. Maybe there is some ways to performance-tune some admin settings with Invision's help?