Changkhui: Changkhui

Koson had been hooking up his place in New Jersey with all kind of media players he could put his hand on. He tried Apple TV, he liked it but was not totally impressed, he had his PS3 player as a Blu-ray player, Wii, HDTV and a few other stuffs, but all in all, he had not finished it yet. So on this episode, he shared in experience in trying these things. We then talked about the story on Business Week a few weeks ago about cloud computing and Google 101.

On this episode, we also talked about being in a "Boss" position and having staffs quitting on their jobs. Some of us also had some of those difficult moments of firing people or being fired ourselves. Simply put, do the best you can do on your jobs.

The episode was released during the New Year period, so we decided to do what a few working people do at this time of the year, we talked about quitting ones' job. Wiroon, Sutin, Worawat and Passakorn shared their experiences in dealing with leaving ones' jobs; the reasons, the real reasons and I-did-not-think-that-this-could-be-a-reason reasons.

Ben, our guest on the 51st episode, came back to share his working experience. He was working at Thai Beverage Can in Saraburi. So he told how cans were produced and issues about cans in general. We felt so grateful for this since Ben was gracious enough to prepare the discussion topics for us. We learnt quite a few things on this episode, such as, always open a can in two-motion; pop and fizz.

We waited a year until the discussion died down in the USA, then we decided to talk about it, simply because we did not really understand the issue back then. Not that we really understood it now, but we thought we had a fair grasp of the topic. Worawat and Passakorn exchanged their understanding of the topic. If we did not hear much feedback on this, we thought we would steer away from the telecom topics and try something else.

Worawat and Passakorn thanked our fans for showed their supports on our webboard. They discussed various issues in VoIP as a carry over from the previous episodes. Then, Passakorn talked about Bit Torrent as he was about to launch Changkhui in BitTorrent.Com.

Worawat updated the progress of WiMax in Thailand. In short, there was none. We tried to explain what happened during the last few months in Thailand, comparing to the development on the US side. Then we picked a recommended topic in Pantip.com from the Silom community. This post/topic were series written by Uncle Add, a well-known contributor in Silom community, he shared his experience on how he became involved in selling computer in 1972, representing Burroughs. The most interesting part, so far, was how his company, Yip In Soy, managed to beat IBM in the Thai Farmer Bank (the name at the time) project in the early years, when his company virtually had no footprint in the industry. You might want to follow up the story from http://www.pantip.com/cafe/silom/topic/B6072388/B6072388.html (his latest post, with links to previous posts in the thread) and at this blog, http://lungadd.pantown.com.

Passakorn managed to get a classmate to join a session in Changkhui, he was David Aldridge. He had been in Thailand for some time, had been with a multi-national firm and currently with a Thai firm. He gave us his 2cents on interviewing Thai and working with Thai. We touched a little bit on software pricing in Thailand.

Passakorn finally had to make a monologue episode, sort of. Due to hectic schedule, we could not arrange any meeting. Instead, khun Sarinee Achavanuntakul, the writer of http://www.fringer.org, gave us a telephone interview about the Justice Online course that we discussed last week. She had her first-hand experience during her years at Harvard. You might want to follow her articles at her blog, at Prachart Thurakit and at http://www.onopen.com. Finally, we introduced an interesting blog at http://angkul007.wordpress.com. This was written by khun Angkul Artornpathai, a retired policeman. He was quite famous during his hey days. He shared many interesting stories with direct experience. Some were quite scary, in a sense that, yes, justice was only a concept, not a reality.

We touched lightly on three different topics; two of our friends are spending more and more time on Nintendo WII and we asked what it was like. Then we invited our fan to share his use of Last.fm, which none of us were using but we thought it was interesting. And at the end, we talked about the content that we saw at http://www.fringer.org, a writer's blog. There was one item that she talked about Justice Online at Harvard. It was a series of lecture given at Harvard university about Justice. It was quite interesting, entertaining as well as educational.