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Line seems to be the best option for Burma telecommunications
Like it says in the title, Line. My wife is in Myanmar/Burma for a week. I looked up the best options for calling to/from that country before she went, but the telecom market is in a state of constant flux and it seems they the government controls the sales of SIM cards. What sad state of affairs: Third world telecom service with first world bureaucracy! As it turns out, most of the airports and hotels she’s been to have had barely decent wifi, which has left us experimenting with voice/video chat services. Here are the results for using chat apps on Android to/from Yangon, Mandalay, and maybe other places in…
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First day of School
Today marks the first day of the regular term. Max and Mina both went to summer school, but it was more casual and the days were shorter. Today is the real deal. Nam left on a trip to Burma (what an ideal example of poor rebranding – what’s the adjective for “Myanmar,” anyways? What language do they speak there?) yesterday, so the kids are totally on their best behavior because they are with Bad Cop. No crying, no pleading, no nonsense: “Are you guys ready to go to school?” FUCK YEAH, DADDY!
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ornamentals
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Tablets and tablas
Just bookmarking this one here for future chillaxation reference, since you can’t bookmark playlists in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVkReLGpBk&list=RD03qsnwftjlW5o
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Windows 8: Face Thump
Humor transcends language. I will definitely use this clip in one of my classes.
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what’s going on
So I took the fam on a trip with my coworkers from the English program last week. We went to Hua Hin, which I had passed through but not enjoyed since our honeymoon. We saw the resort we had stayed at (Nern Chalet) and the massage parlor my dad got groped at, and the kids had a great time at the beach. Max learned how to stay underwater at the hotel pool, and was very proud of himself. Mina could put her face in the water, but is still scared to put her ears in, I think. I have many photos, but alas, the start of the new term is…
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Accidentally turned my Tilapia into a Grouper
It took a few hours to research and get a custom ROM installed (SmoothROM v5.1), so I was dismayed to see that it lacked 3G support. Oops. So I started over again using Nexus Root Toolkit and pushed the latest cyanogenmod nightly for Tilapia (Nexus 7 3g) and gapps via my laptop. Success! cyanogenmod is kind of boring because it’s so stable – and that’s a good thing. Regarding the title above, grouper = Nexus 7 wifi tilapia = Nexus 7 3g
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What to do if you can’t find Developer Options in Android settings
In Jelly Bean 4.2 and higher, if there is no “Developer Options” shown in the “Settings” menu, go to Settings –> About Tablet –> Build Number and tap on it 7 times to unlock/unhide it.
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Thailand’s True Move H APN settings for internet
So basically create a new APN with the following settings: Name: TRUE-H INTERNET APN: internet User name: true Password: true MMC: 520 MNC: 00 APN type: internet Personally, I think anyone using MMS in this day and age should just give up and go back to using a typewriter, so I won’t cover that. You can find device-specific info on the True page from which I borrowed the above graphic: http://www.truemove-h.com/helpsupport_apnsettings.aspx True seems dedicated to the curious corporate tactic of changing the location of any helpful information on their website every few months, to the point where I can no longer find it. Anyway, the settings described above are still valid…
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All hail Nexus 7
I have started down a new path on the way to tech happiness by (almost) throwing away my smartphone and replacing it with dedicated tools: a dumb phone, a tablet computer, and a camera (when I need one). I am tired of carrying around a device that is a compromise in every area it was designed to cover – a smartphone is the Swiss Army knife of handheld devices, and while it can be used for many things, it does none of them as well as tools designed for those jobs. A smartphone, in general: Is too big, complicated, and laggy to be considered a good replacement for a simple…
