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http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/just_for_you1 Check this for stays in March. Must be booked by Feb. 12.

We lost a few days worth of posts, photo uploads, etc in our server move. My apologies for the inconvenience. We moved to a new server and the hosting company made a mistake in the database back up. By the time we knew it we would loose date to restore. This was my responsibility and I apologize.

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I have a Mac and it is so easy. I just bought Windows 7 and installed it on my Mac so I can test my sites with it from time to time. OMG. I had really forgotten how many times you have to restart the machine. I only put in about 4 programs today but had to restart at least 20 times. Do you know how often I have to restart my Mac? NEVER

We are moving our server to a new configuration with more RAM and faster processor. It is at the same hosting company but it will change some things and if there is any downtime or any malfunction, this is the reason. My apologies in advance if any issues.

LOL Same here!

One of my favorite posters on the message boards in Gay Thailand has stopped posting on Baht Stop. I have always enjoyed reading his forum. But, his hopper is now down, not open to new threads, and he is no where to be seen. Does anyone know him personally and if he is OK? I hope all is OK and that he is fine!

Was anyone else stupid enough to pay for this reality show on ITunes? What was I thinking?

My mouth opened at the President's speech last night when he criticized the Supreme Court over their recent ruling. Did others gasp when they heard this? Was it appropriate for a President? Did he go overboard?

The Catcher in the Rye was one of my favorite books I read in high school. A great author, he will be missed.

Wow. Watching the event for the unveiling has been amazing. I am excited. The new IPad is a cross between an Iphone and a Notebook. Being an Apple geek, this is exciting. I wonder how long after it goes on sale before the cloners in Thailand will be able to reproduce it? 1.5 pounds. .5 inches thin. 9.7 inch display.

I am watching the event online via updates at engadget and the new device looks amazing! Very cool!

Great scene. Thanks. This was the bartender I thought was so hot at MJ's. Wow!

I am not sure why you are uncomfortable on this site. The vast majority of post are not negative at all. But, if you are looking for us to delete any post that is negative about someone or another site, you may be disappointed. Personally, I don't see the point of this thread but I also didn't comment on it and moved by it. I am not sure why you can't do the same. If you want to see less negative, snide BS, contribute to make sure the direction is headed the right way.

I love Damages with Glen Close. I think the show if full of great writing and a wonderful story. The last 2 seasons have been great. I saw the season premiere last night and look forward to another great year. I also love Lily Tomlin and hope she plays a great part in the season.

I agree with Stu. I have had some experiences that were only 20 minutes. But, damn they were a good 20 minutes.

We love both Virgins and Newbies. No problem!

Clients don't have links on the site. However, you are a twink. There is this real Twink Lover you should contact. His name is Oz. Just use the search on the Forum above to find his name and PM him. Signed Sealed and Delivered.

Love the guy on the right! Very sexy!

I had a nice time at both dinner and at MJ's. The hot bartender is most defiantly amazing. YUMMY!

Where can my friend find white guys for rent in Bangkok? He is coming to visit and wants to try all the gay bars and was asking for the Russian guys or Chezh guys. Any suggestions?

One of my professors wrote this article on Haiti. He has spent a vast amount of time there researching for his books. From Madison Smartt Bell For too long before this last natural disaster, Haiti has been full of hands with nothing to do, and a lot of those hands have picked up guns. In the pressing need to rebuild the capital and other regions leveled by the earthquake, those hands could be put to more constructive use. It will make a great positive difference for the country if they are. By nothing to do I mean no employment; it's not like Haitians just sit around. Most of them, the vast majority, spend every day figuring out food for themselves and their families for that single day. Better than most, they understand the line from Scripture, We are not promised tomorrow. That urgent struggle for day to day survival makes for mental as well as physical stress. As a friend of mine told me a couple of years back, It takes a lot of transactions in your head to make twenty dollars. I have known this man, now pushing thirty, since he was in his middle teens. He is trained and capable as a guide, driver, plumber, electrician, mechanic, small-engine and air-conditioning repairmen. Like most of the young men of Haiti, he can almost never find any work in any of his numerous trades, though not for want of trying. It's not to be denied that Haiti has internal problems. True, as David Brooks put it in a recent New York Times op-ed, there are some "progress-resistant cultural influences" (though I think it is gratuitously insulting for him to count the religion of the Haitian majority as one of them) as well as "high levels of social mistrust." But the straight-up paternalism Brooks recommends as a solution is likely to lose the whole opportunity. And yes, there is an opportunity here. There's money to be made in rebuilding a destroyed infrastructure, although, since Haiti has no oil, it's not the same kind of money some thought we were going to make in Iraq. However, we do have a chance to repeat the same mistake. Those who followed the military into Iraq wanted all the goodies for themselves, and so they imported all the labor. Iraqi young men, recently mustered out of Saddam's army, were tacitly advised to sit on their hands and starve. They started kidnapping and killing civilian contractors because they had, reasonably enough under suchcumstances, identified them as the real enemy. Before the earthquake, Haiti's persistent insecurity problem had come very close to being solved by intelligent, tightly focused cooperation between Préval's government, the Haitian National Police, and the military forces of the U.N. mission, MINUSTAH. This progress is real, so real that the U.S. State Department recently reduced its cautions against travel to Haiti to the lowest level since 1995. There is no absolute reason for that gain to be lost now, although it might be. Two factors have persistently driven the Haitian insecurity problem. The turmoil of the past ten years put more guns into the country than ever before, and a great many of these guns are in the hands of young men who have no other meal ticket. Rebuilding Haitian infrastructure could also rebuild the Haitian economy if the builders do one simple thing, hire Haitians. They are strong, quick-witted, adept at making something out of nothing, willing -- I mean desperate -- to work, and who could possibly be better motivated than they are right now. Hire Haitians. Hire Haitians. I feel the need to say it many times because insofar as the rebuilders come from the United States, where there is a considerable unemployment problem right now, there will be a temptation to grab all the goodies for ourselves. It will be a disaster if we do. Haiti is not considered an "existential threat" to the United States, but it's a whole lot closer than the countries that are. One day a couple of years ago a friend and I accepted the help of a couple of young men to cut brush in aid of a survey. They slashed into the job, like demons. I will never forget the single-minded ferocity in their faces. It was so inspirational that I picked up a machete and tried it myself, but in the broiling summer heat I lasted about ten minutes. The young men who accomplished the real job were not expecting to be paid, but had volunteered, as my friend explained, so as not to pass a regrettable day. Yes, I did pay them fairly for their work, but within a week I was gone from Haiti, leaving them with their machetes, and no other prospects. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/madison-smartt-bell/let-haitians-rebuild-hait_b_431219.html

Looking good to me. I am not sure many will be there with this hellish rain we are having, but I will be! I hope you are able to make it too!

I have a condo I am looking at in LOS. The owner is totally 100 percent unwilling to negotiate on the asking price at all. It is a very nice condo but I thought all things in LOS were negotiable. I offered longer lease, easier agreements, and many things that would benefit him. No to all. No negotiation at all.

I found these two posts interesting and wanted to be sure all saw them and could find them easily. Gaybutton has asked for some instructions on CamFrog and here is what was advised. From Fountinhall: I assume you have registered with camfrog and have a sign-in name. So, when you click on the camfrog icon, it should open up a small window with a 'click to start' box. This will then open another window which has a list down the left side and one across the top. Forget the left side ones and instead click on the third box on the top (think it's the third one!). This then opens up a new list of dozens of rooms in Thailand, and you will see that some have as many as 500 members on line, others as few as 10 or 12. Click on any room to enter it. Yet another window opens up. Some windows will give you immediate access to the room and those in it. Others will require you to click on 'Yes' - presumably meaning you agree to abide by the room regulations (all of which are in Thai). Once in the room, this room window has the main general chat section, two smaller windows at the top - one for your camera image and one for the person you want to chat with. Down the right side is the list of names of those presently in the room. This list has two groups, the first of which are guys who are happy for you to see their camera images, the second called "Lurkers" who are invisible to you. Place your cursor on any name (don't click) and within a second or two it will tell you if the person is a paid-up member (which means he can open up lots of images at the same time) or a non-paying member (which means he can only open one person's window at a time). It also tells you the guy's stated age. But don't be put off by an "88 year old" - it's almost certainly an 18 year old having his idea of fun! To see someone's camera image, click on the name. In most cases, this will give you his image alongside yours. If you like someone and want to chat, drag your curser along the top of the guy's photo and four little icons open up in sequence. Click on the one which looks like a bubble with some words in it. That will open up a separate dialogue chat box - probably on the right of your screen - and you can then chat individually to that guy. When you are chatting with someone, another guy in the room may also wish to chat with you. In that case, his 'name' will appear at the top of this dialogue box - a bit like the tab at the top of a file. You can then click back and forward on those tabs to chat with more than one guy if you wish. And if you are fed up chatting to a guy, you can close his dialogue box by clicking on the little 'cross' on the right side of his tab. If you have not opened up any chats, you may sometimes hear a sound and a little box with a name will appear elsewhere on the screen for about 5 seconds. This is someone wanting to chat with you. Click on that and the dialogue screen opens up to enable you to chat. Usually I don't agree to the chat until I see the guy's photo. So I make a note of the name, let the little box disappear and then check on the guy's name and photo. If I like his photo, then I'll move the cursor along the top of the photo to open up the dialogue box. I hope all this is making some sort of sense. The only other thing to note is that you can tell when someone is looking at you because a pair of funny spectacles will appear alongside his icon in the list of names of guys in the room. If you note someone is spending a lot of time looking at you, it generally means he is kind of interested, but may be shy starting a chat. You can then click on his photo to see if he is your type, and then start a chat if you so desire. You can also request to have a private chat, meaning others cannot see the two of you - and then you can get up to anything you wish. To achieve this, you have first to be chatting with someone and then click one of the icons at the top of the dialogue box - but I am sorry I cannot recall which one. Trial and error will solve that problem, though. Hope this works. If not, let me know and I'll see if I can find a friend here in Chiang Mai with camfrog on his computer. The only other point is that I find interest from camfrog members is much less direct than those on gayromeo. It also comes in 'spurts' with a lot of guys wanting to chat one evening and then no-one being interested for days thereafter. But from my experience, there are lots of young guys around the country extremely interested in getting to know older farangs! And there are quite a few randy guys anxious for you to see their wares! From MrBill: I would like someone to explain, step-by-step and very clearly, how to use CamFrog. I can't figure out how to chat with anyone. Nothing I try works. I can send messages to the main screen, but how do you start a chat with a specific user? "Explain it to me, like I'm a four-year old." -Denzel Washington, 'Philadelphia' Like a 4-year-old eh? OK, I'll give it a try. Today's lesson is brought to you by the letters C A M F R O and G and the numbers ... well, you get the picture. A couple things about camfrog to know... you increase your chances of chatting and connecting if you have a webcam. In some looms if you are a "Lurker" (without a cam) you will be "kick out", and if you try it multiple times, you can be permanently barred from participating in that room. Trust me on this one, if you have a cam just sit tight, boys will be coming to you! Next... you can pay a one-time fee for camfrog pro that allows you to open multiple winows (100 cams the Thais call it) within a room and carry on multiple conversations at the same tme. Otherwise, with free camfrog, you can chat with one person at a time in any given room. Some Thai moderators don't like falang with "100 cams" others will users might ask you for your code if you are a pro user, "I give you good show if you give me code." I'll assume, like most 4-year-olds you can figure out how to sign on/in So, if we start with the chat room list, at the top you'll see a drop down menu, left click on it and find "Thailand" further down you will see 4 tabs in green, select "18+". There you will find a list of adult looms, most of the ones you will want to visit have Gay in the title and all are written in English, so it's pretty easy for us Falangs. Alternately, you can select "join chat" to go to a specific room if you know where you want to go. One I would recommend is "Gay_Chonburi_Club_Za" When you enter a room some will ask you to agree to the terms of the room which are all written in Thai, I automatically click "yes" and hope to hell I haven't signed my life away. On the far right side you will see 3 gategories: "Visble Users" lists the parson(s) whose cams you have opened, if you have done so, "Hidden users" lists people with a cam in the room with whom you can chat, and "Lurkers" people just hanging out without their own cam. "Sorry my cam broke today." Scrolling your mouse over any of the names will give you basic info: User Name, Sex, Cam/No Cam, Status, age and Pro/No Pro user. To open someone's cam, just left click your mouse on their name. If you want to chat with someone, right click on their name with you mouse, a pop-up menu will give you several options: View Webcam, Add to (your)Contact List, IM User, View Profile etc. Left Click you mouse on "IM User" and a chat window will open. The rest is just like any chat program - Windows Live, Gay Romeo etc. Users have the ability to block other users from contacting them. If you are blocked 3 times within a certain time period, you can be kicked off the board temporarily. And that boys and girls is how you use camfrog and live happily ever after. Seriously though, I use it a lot. I find more and more boys with their own computers and Internet who are students or employed in some way. Many of the bar boys use Internet cafes like on GR. Some give you a little look see, others will do a complete no holds barred show. Some will ry the same bull they do in person, "Water Buffalo just die, mama in hospital..." Some ask for money for rent or food, but mostly it's a good time, I think. Hope this helps!