After reading NoNT's blog about his internet topic, I decided to log mine as well. This entry is directly re-log from my wedding site

I am looking for internet service for my new home at Ratchapruek Rd. Well, the project office told me that they have TOT node right in front of the project entrance. Having heard several rumors about TOT and been using True for years, I first want to try whether my new place falls under True's wing. I called the call center a few days ago, the promotion is quite promising. For around 900 Baht + one-time ~2000, I would get free TrueVision (the most basic package with just the FreeTV and the demo of true vision channel) plus 300 credit for one new TrueMove number and 3M ADSL. The only catch is that they have to check for a few day whether my house is on their coverage. On Monday saying that my home is out of their reach, what a bad news. So I went to nearest MaxNet booth just to have the same answer which mean that I am stuck with TOT.

Today, I contacted TOT and they said that my villa has a special project where I could get 3M for the price of 590 per month, quite interesting... BUT... of course, there is a catch. They don't know yet whether I could have that speed. (I don't know what is the factor.) Anyway, I have to spend 3,585 for the registration fee, noticeably higher than True and MaxNet. I paid it anyway. Let see whether it comes to fruition.

Several updates have been posted to my wedding site

Some might know already, but I am going to tell it anyway. I am getting married!!! Yeah!!! Next month. The detail is

Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009
Place: Narai Ballrom, Narai Hotel
Time: 18:30
Banquet Style: Chinese Table

More detail can be found at http://www.bo-dae.com

A few months ago, I bought an earpiece of the brand TDK, discounted @400 baht. The sound is good but I don't know whether it worth THB400. Anyway, last week I went to Pantip and saw an earpiece of the price THB69. Obviously I grabbed it and the result is that it is damn terrible. Seems like the TDK is a good deal for me.

The funniest point is that I was not satisfied with the TDK until I bought that THB69. Human, imperfect...

My old phone is broken, she freezes up every now and then for weeks. So, yesterday, I bought a new cell phone. After a series of reviews and lots of constraints optimization, I ended up with Nokia 3120 classic. Let's start from the requirements, listed by higher impact.

• Bluetooth (for my headset, this is top priority)
• GPRS, EDGE (3G is bonus)
• Nice alarm clock (yeah, I said I no longer need that, but having it would be a plus)
• External memory slot (music player is always a plus)
• Camera

Of course, my old one (Samsung E250) meets minimal requirement. Her camera is just for show and it is damn slow to transfer music file from her to PC. Don't take me wrong. She serves me right for almost two years and if she did not (untimely?) die, I would still be very happy with her.

Formerly, there were other six contenders: SE T303, SE W380i, Samsung L700, Nokia 3110, SE K660, Samsung E590. Each fails short for the following reason.

• SE T303: Very good! It's bang for the buck. However, it lacks external memory.
• SE W380: I always want to try a clam shell phone but this one is very hard to open by a single hand. Not a good thing.
• Samsung L700: A little bit too tall and the price tag of 5,400 baht is a little bit too high.
• SE K660: Has everything I need but is bulky and pricey.
• Samsung E590: Very very good! Somewhat chubby. The feature is better than T303. slot and if there were no Nokia around, I would definitely go for it.
• Nokia 3110 classic: I almost goes for this one. The only problem that it is quite too big. I really like its mini USB connector and its separated small talk connector. Unlike Samsung universal port, i can charge the unit while connect the small talk at the same time.

I almost goes for Samsung E590 if I haven't met Nokia 3120. The plus of 3120 overs E590 is that it has LED flash, minimalist 3G (both 850 and 2100) and higher resolution camera. Also comes with 512 microSD. The price of 3120 is 800 baht higher than E590 and the fact that it has separated connector is the final nail that concludes my decision.

I Just change the theme to Sky. To my surprise, Sky is highly customizable. A user is allowed to change the default font, font size, alignment, width of the theme. That is exactly what I want from a theme. Now, the only problem is that I believe that the skin is a little bit sober. Will try to change that soon.

The HDD of our server is broken and I almost lost all my data. The failing drive is the OS drive, not the data drive and ,yes, I set up raid5 on my server but I forgot to put MySQL data directory (/var/lib/mysql) into the raid array (still keeping it on the OS Drive).

Hiren rescue disk saves the day, however, some table is fubar and I can't do anything about it. You can notices that all tags are gone. Anyway, everything is up and online. On a bright side, it is a chance to upgrade from Stentz (FC4) to Hardy Heron.