haybilly

OK--apologies if this has been asked before [ I feel certain it will have been but have not input correct search criteria to get any findings--so, apologies]--is there a work-around for the need to go through the minor hassle of getting a Re-Entry permit prior to making a very short shopping trip to Tachilek on the Burmese side of Mae Sai--I seem to remember getting a paper document issued on the spot by Thai Immigration at Mae Sai which allowed me to cross to the Burmese side without the need for passport/Re-Entry paperwork; am I misleading myself or does this practice still take place???
Many thanks for any info/help. Incidentally I will not be there for any visa update requirements--purely to go to buy some stuff on the other side.

Hello,
having opened up my Thomson Wireless Router, supplied free by True Vision when I signed up for their 9 MB broadband package--I cannot find any DNS settings--in fact DNS is not enabled--is this just a case of getting the settings correct??
This may seem like a dumb question to the computer literate but I am far from that.

HELP needed----

I am, at present, not in the Kingdom and read, with no little concern, that SCIB has been bought up, lock, stock, etc.., by Thanachart Bank--ok, so far, yawn, yawn,--but, I was possibly foolish to leave a sum invested in a High Interest Fixed Term account with SCIB, prior to my departure from Thailand--the fixed term has now finished and the lump sum will, theoretically, have been moved bank into my long standing current/savings account with SCIB--OK, so far so good, but now, with the recent purchase by another Thai bank--what should be the outcome?? Will I return in January 2012, just in time to renew my Retirement visa and find that I am the proud owner of a brand new account with Thanachart bank, and God willing, find all the funds happily sitting in my newly created account--or should I panic and catch an early flight and go chase up my money??
   Any sensible or pertinent answers out there???

Over the last couple of weeks gradually more and more very large black ans--larger than the big 'Mot Daeng' -- up to 1 cm. in length--have started to appear wandering around the house, it's obvious that they have established a nest somewhere but just where is very hard to tell--my best guess is behind/underneath the farang-style wooden sink unit.
     I have applied several types of ant-poisons in the vicinity but this doesn't appear to be getting to the root of the problem--i.e. not getting carried back to the nest as is supposed to happen.
   What are these little beasts--do they, as my cleaning lady says, indeed eat wood?? And, presumably, the only solution is to dis-assemble the kitchen units and find their nest--any ideas as to who would be capable of dealing with this job--satisfactorily, that is?

   Any recommendations for bug control companies--that do what they're supposed to do?

Up until today I have had no problem accessing the Wikileaks site--not  so today; anyone else find this to be the case? If so, is this Thai  censorship, U.S. Government or Chinese Gov. attacks or what?? Or is it  my permanently jittery connection?