I’ve asked people I’d met who had been to Angkor Wat before on how much time they would recommend to set aside to check out the ruins and many said about 3 days. I did some online research as well and learned the same thing: 3-4 days to “properly” see the ruins.
But since I’m not really a big ruins guy, I decided just 1 day would be enough for me.
I arrived in Siem …
I finally reached the point where my passport had only one blank page left, thanks to all these visas taking up an entire page each.
I just got 48 additional pages added to my passport today at the US embassy here in Bangkok. The process took less than an hour, but cost me $82 USD. You can choose to have 1 insert (24 pages) or 2 (48 pages) added. Cost is the same. I …
I sometimes connect my Ubuntu laptop to my LCD TV via the HDMI port to watch movies. When I plug in the cable the display works right away but the new sound device (the TV’s speakers) is usually not detected unless I log off and re-login.
An easier way to do this is to restart the pulseaudio service to detect the TV’s speakers via command line. To do this just type:
pulseaudio –kill
The pulseaudio …
I updated my Ubuntu's kernel (Sputnik kernel for the Dell XPS 13) a couple of days ago but I quickly noticed that this new kernel (verson 3.2.0-43-generic) broke the backlight brightness adjustment setting of my laptop. It was basically stuck at the highest setting which is way too bright for me when working in the dark.
I thought about possibly rolling back the version, but then realized there's actually no need to roll …
I spent 2 months in Chiang Mai this year, making this city the most I’ve ever spent time in during my round-the-world trip. I wanted to stay put in one place for a while and get some work done and Chiang Mai seemed like a great place to do it.
It’s a very popular place for digital nomads working on projects for the following reasons: