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A Step Forward For Music Streaming in Australia

It seems my predictions of 2011 being the year of streaming has official begun, with the introduction of Australia’s first on-demand music service available on Sonos. In a lot of ways, Australia has been a few steps behind in media streaming. Services like Netflix, Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify being unavailable in Australia, has highlighted the problems with licensing media streaming internationally. Companies are having to individually negotiate licensing deals with each country and frankly, Australia hasn’t been number one on the to do list. This is why, I am happy with... Read The Rest →

Sleeping On The Sea Junk – Day 8 – James Bond Tour

Today was our trip to James Bond Island. It was going to be a long boat ride to the island, so I decided to take two sea sick tablets. Although it is great at ensuring I don’t get sea sick, they do cause drowsiness. It was a one hour drive to the pier and we were picked up from the resort by car at 7:30am. Within five minutes of being the car, I had fallen asleep and didn’t wake up until we arrived at the pier. Share → Tweet

Another Night In Patong – Day 7 Thailand

Yesterday, we spent the first half of the day relaxing at the resort, we were tired from the Koh Phi Phi tour. We have been very happy with our choice of resort. It is away from the hustle and bustle of Phuket Town and Patong, but we’re still close enough to go there to shop and experience some of the controlled chaos. I have been fascinated by the Thai language and have been trying to learn as much as I can. I have been asking waiters, shop keepers and our... Read The Rest →

A Cold Phi Phi – Day 6 in Thailand

I am going to keep this post short. Because I am pretty tired! Today we went to Phi Phi Island. We woke up nice and early, had breakfast and were then driven to a pier twenty minutes from our resort. There was about ten people on our speed boat, including a couple from Adelaide that we had met at Pat’s Home Thai Cooking. It was raining heavily at the beginning of that day and improved to a drizzle in the afternoon. One thing that I learned today was that Phi... Read The Rest →

Elephant Trekking And White Water Rafting – Day 5 Thailand

Sawadee Krap! We woke up at 7:15am today, which would have been fine, if we didn’t have to be at the lobby by 7:30am to leave for the day’s adventures. We skipped breakfast and made it just in time. We were driven to a location fifteen minutes away, where we were then greeted by Tam. “My name is Tam, like Tim Tam. Welcome to the land of smiles” He said as he grinned ear to ear. We sat and waited as other people from our group arrived from different hotels.... Read The Rest →

Cooking, Swimming & Sunset Dining – Day 4 In Phuket

Today we attended our first activity that we booked through the travel agent – Pat’s Home Thai Cooking. We were both excited to learn the different techniques in cooking one of the worlds most recognised cuisines, Thai food. We were picked up from the lobby at around 9am, after another big breakfast at the resort. A lady was driving the car. She didn’t talk much and wasn’t very confident in the traffic. She was tooting her horn and yelling a bit, which we hadn’t experienced when driving with Mr Game.... Read The Rest →

It Keeps Getting Better – Day 3 In Phuket

It is now 10:30pm Phuket time (2:30am Melbourne time). We have had another fantastic day and felt that I needed to blog about it to make sure I never forget. Bree is in bed trying to sleep. I am pretty annoying in the sense that I like to wake her and talk to her. Anyway, she can rest, while I write. To be honest, we were a little worried this morning. We woke up to rainy weather. It had been such fantastic weather the last couple of days and to... Read The Rest →

The First Two Days in Thailand

Breana and I left for Thailand at 11pm Melbourne time. Flying with Thai Airways, we arrived at Bangkok at 4am Bangkok time. The flight was good, there was a fair bit of turbulence at times, but there was always plenty of warning by the captain. I planned on spending the nine hour flight listening to a long audiobook. Unfortunately, I fell asleep shortly after turning it on. My legs struggled to fit under the seat, so every time the flight attendant would go past with a trolley, they would hit... Read The Rest →

How to Force Good Customer Service

Do you feel like you spend half your time on the phone to customer support departments, with little avail? I do. Whether it be a telco, courier company, or electronic device customer support, a lot of companies are pretty terrible when it comes to fixing problems. How many times have you said “I will report this issue to the ombudsman if you do not sort out this issue”, hoping that it will finally push them to actually fix your problem. Well, over the past two weeks, I have been dealing... Read The Rest →

A Geek’s Bag

I am going to Thailand for 10 days with my girlfriend Breana. It’s hard being a geek and trying to pack light. Here is what I plan to take in my camera bag. Click on the image to check out what each item is (On Flickr). Is there something i’m missing? Let me know! Also, on the subject of packing for travel, I found a great video by Timothy Ferriss on travel packing tips: Share → Tweet

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