Microsoft successfully created a hype over its up-and-coming operating Windows 7. Their Thai marketing effort has been impressive, they went to various IT communities and gatherings. We invited our 2 friends and hosts, @9aum and @FordAntitrust to review Windows 7, after having been using and reviewing it for sometime. So far, our judges gave a go-ahead sign for the upgrade.

We heard it on This Week in Tech episode 213 with John Graham-Cumming (http://www.jgc.org) to tell about his blog and petition to the British government about Alan Turing. It was a fascinating story. Something everyone wished he or she could accomplish in a life time. Anyway, we talked briefly about Alan Turing and the petition. We also have a new section in Changkhui, asking listeners to contribute their stories. This week, it was a story from twitter.com/attasun.

I meant to be there to record the event so that we could distribute it on Changkhui, but I ended up being a moderator. Arthit (Twitter.com/bact) was s'posed to be there but due to family matter, I was asked to perform the duty. Anyway, it was fun. The event was held at TCDC to promote Creative Common awareness on the Music theme. There were Kittsak Triyanont (Monotone) Patchara Kerdsiri and Jakkrit Talawat (TiGERiDEA), Athip Jittaruek (Underground Thrash Metal Project), Sarinee Achavanuntakul (Creative Commons Thailand), Kanes Paktrakasettrin and Pornpat Chevewat (Kanesha) to create awareness. It was fun and full of interesting conversations. This is the second part.

I meant to be there to record the event so that we could distribute it on Changkhui, but I ended up being a moderator. Arthit (Twitter.com/bact) was s'posed to be there but due to family matter, I was asked to perform the duty. Anyway, it was fun. The event was held at TCDC to promote Creative Common awareness on the Music theme. There were Kittsak Triyanont (Monotone) Patchara Kerdsiri and Jakkrit Talawat (TiGERiDEA), Athip Jittaruek (Underground Thrash Metal Project), Sarinee Achavanuntakul (Creative Commons Thailand), Kanes Paktrakasettrin and Pornpat Chevewat (Kanesha) to create awareness. It was fun and full of interesting conversations. This is the first part.

A light-hearted episode on miscellaneous social etiquettes. We gathered the original Changkhui podcasters to mark our third year anniversary episode. Also, the day coincided with the Twitter Bangkok 3 event, which was held right next door to our place, so we had 3 Changkhui listeners who went to the event and passed by to join us. Due to insufficient resource, we had to suffer another poor audio-quality episode, with very noisy children background noise.

Still tired from many activities before and after the seminars, both personal and business, so I decided to cheat by adding an audio version of the introduction to Audio here. The introduction music was recorded due to the fun of making it. You can find out more about the event at our blog, http://changkhui.wordpress.com.

This was one of those unplanned and unscheduled episode. We meant to record an episode with Arthit but he was nowhere to be seen, so I thought we would cancel this. But then k.Wichai was on Twitter so I invited him to over to share his experience on producing podcasts for the Siam Technology College. This was the college that was presented on Apple Pro Day in Bangkok last year, we also talked about them in episode 101. About 7 minutes into the recording, Arthit turned up on Skype so we invited him over to join the conversation. Turn out to be quite an interesting mix. Sorry for the sound quality but the content should more than make up for it. Thank you both khun Wichai Chareonchokepanich and khun Arthit Suriyawongkul

Just to compare notes, we talked about webs which we visited on daily basis. This time, we had a regular listener to join us, Champ (Twitter.com/Sitdh). Of course, we have the usual suspects for Thai geeks, such as Siampod, Freemac, BlogNone, ThaiMacClub, but there were quite a few surprises.

We intended to try do some experiments on Skype and ended up recording an episode. mEnE (Twitter.com/mEnE078 and mEnE078.wordpress.com) helped us out in preparing the script for the show and we had an honor of having Mor Maew on our show. Mor Maew (Twitter.com/Mor_Maew and Mor-Maew.exteen.com), was a well-known figure in Pantip.com community, with a reputation of providing scientific facts to counter baseless rumors and forward mails. Of course, he was a long-time Changkhui listener. No need to mention much about mEnE, by now, she was considered a regular host. We talked about etiquette in sending and replying mails and Mor Maew also shared his experience in how to counter some persistent rumors. You can see a sample of this at http://topicstock.pantip.com/wahkor/topicstock/2009/03/X7678016/X7678016.html with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrlovRMUgk.

From one of the most famous books that came out in 2008, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. Worawat did all the hard work of preparing information from the book to produce this episode. The book focused on Behavioral Economics. Dan became very famous from the book that he was invited to talk at TED talk. The book were full of interesting experiments so we invited Chalermporn (Ning), Surachai (Chai) and Sutin (Ood) to comment on these experiments.