nidge

Last night i watched the movie Soi Cowboy. Luckily my wife was with me as there is plenty of Thai spoken and i didn't have subtitles. Some of it was in a strong Issan accent that even she didn't understand but for the most of it we understood what they were talking about.

Anyway, has anyone else seen this movie and can explain to me what was going on at the end of the movie? I have seen such a stupid ending to a film, the writer was clearly in a hurry to finish and probably had some beer and yabaa to help his progress.

If you haven't seen the movie, i highly recommend you don't even bother looking for it.

Here is a warning for people as stupid as me!  


I have just started a new job and need to use software that only runs on Windows XP pro. My company give me a crap computer to work on but i thought it would be nice if i could use my MAcBook Pro for work so i don't have to lug around 2 laptops. Anyway, i heard about Windows7 XP mode and thought it would work. I didn't want to use bootcamp because i didn't want to reboot every time i wanted to change Os's. I bought the latest version of parallels and Windows7 pro and installed them. All ok so far. Then i spent ages trying to download the software for XP mode. This is where everything came to a halt. XP mode runs a virtual machine inside Windows7. Windows7 was a virtual machine inside OsX. This wasn't possible. I contacted parallels help desk somewhere in darkest India and chatted with a guy that was absolutely clueless. I don't believe i was the first to run into this problem. After about 30 minutes of faffing around i was told "you can't do that".

So, in a nutshell, don't try to run XP mode using parallels, it won't work.


Nidge.

I've lived in Thailand a long time and never had a frog in my garden before. Plenty of ugly toads though. Anyone know what Frog this is?

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Does anyone know where i can get a copy (original), of Civ5? My local Apple store doesn't have it and the few sites i have tried to download from will not accept a Thai credit card

Nidge.