About Author: Scott

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Scott is our renaissance man. Combining his love of community development, varied cultures, travelling and computing skills he helps guide the web site towards one which shows our projects and good works whilst maintaining user privacy and promoting Open Source software.

Posts by Scott

  • Finally, a page I can direct people to before I allow them to open their mouths and say anything at all about anything whatsoever! This must be the most simple way of understanding computing basics since...well... BASIC! Guys and girls, techs and taters – allow me to show you a new offering by Google:  Teach Parents Tech. This [...]

    The ultimate beginners guide to computing!

    Posted on December 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Finally, a page I can direct people to before I allow them to open their mouths and say anything at all about anything whatsoever! This must be the most simple way of understanding computing basics since...well... BASIC! Guys and girls, techs and taters – allow me to show you a new offering by Google:  Teach Parents Tech. This [...]

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  • The Vice-President of the Dominican Republic,Rafael Alburquerque, has upgraded his personal site to an HTML5 site which is both bold and impressive in it’s presentation. A little known secret amongst us lurkers of the internet with community development values is that the additional tags and protocols surrounding HTML5 will allow for a better flow of traffic, and possibly funding, due to [...]

    Rafael Alburquerque goes HTML5

    Posted on December 14, 2010 | No Comments
    The Vice-President of the Dominican Republic,Rafael Alburquerque, has upgraded his personal site to an HTML5 site which is both bold and impressive in it’s presentation. A little known secret amongst us lurkers of the internet with community development values is that the additional tags and protocols surrounding HTML5 will allow for a better flow of traffic, and possibly funding, due to [...]

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  • His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates his eighty third birthday today, December 5th 2010, in his royal palace in Bangkok. This is a national holiday within Thailand which is celebrated by everyone in the Kingdom. We cannot do justice to the wide range of successes his Majesty has brought to all areas of Thailand over his time serving as [...]

    Happy 83rd Birthday to the King of Thailand

    Posted on December 4, 2010 | No Comments
    His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates his eighty third birthday today, December 5th 2010, in his royal palace in Bangkok. This is a national holiday within Thailand which is celebrated by everyone in the Kingdom. We cannot do justice to the wide range of successes his Majesty has brought to all areas of Thailand over his time serving as [...]

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  • Arched over holding onto the world Your grip is tight, your try to keep hold Others gaze from all around and sing with glee Stoically silent, not a sound Alone you are, no others to see Your passion glares in colours unfurled Precious light, you look down on gold Yet value of material is of no worth to you Majestically etherial Alone you imbue Into [...]

    The loneliest rainbow

    Posted on November 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Arched over holding onto the world Your grip is tight, your try to keep hold Others gaze from all around and sing with glee Stoically silent, not a sound Alone you are, no others to see Your passion glares in colours unfurled Precious light, you look down on gold Yet value of material is of no worth to you Majestically etherial Alone you imbue Into [...]

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  • The atrocities brought by cluster bombs must start by cleaning them up Dalyn Simmons, a current Mundo’s board director and founder, who also  helps local Thais with volunteer cross cultural orientations and is an overall cultural liaison attended the First Meeting Of State Parties To The Convention On Cluster Munitions held in Vientiane, Laos. Dalyn stated that as well [...]

    Cluster Munitions Coalition Many Nations Agree on Clean Up Campaign

    Posted on November 10, 2010 | No Comments
    The atrocities brought by cluster bombs must start by cleaning them up Dalyn Simmons, a current Mundo’s board director and founder, who also  helps local Thais with volunteer cross cultural orientations and is an overall cultural liaison attended the First Meeting Of State Parties To The Convention On Cluster Munitions held in Vientiane, Laos. Dalyn stated that as well [...]

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  • Camille from Australia decided to help out with some elephants during her time in Thailand. Having a natural apathy with nature and seeking a fairer balance between humanity and other life on this planet she felt it her duty to investigate the treatment of local wildlife. Camille has a biological science degree majoring in ecology [...]

    Giving elephants a better life

    Posted on June 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Camille from Australia decided to help out with some elephants during her time in Thailand. Having a natural apathy with nature and seeking a fairer balance between humanity and other life on this planet she felt it her duty to investigate the treatment of local wildlife. Camille has a biological science degree majoring in ecology [...]

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  • King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates his 60th year of coronation today. The King, also known as Rama IX by farang, has reigned as monarch since June 9th 1946. Upon the day of his crowning ceremony he was officially wed to Queen Somdej Phra Boromarajini and stated to “reign with righteousness for the benefit and happiness of [...]

    60th anniversary of the coronation of The King of Thailand

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
    King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates his 60th year of coronation today. The King, also known as Rama IX by farang, has reigned as monarch since June 9th 1946. Upon the day of his crowning ceremony he was officially wed to Queen Somdej Phra Boromarajini and stated to “reign with righteousness for the benefit and happiness of [...]

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  • The ancient Celtic practise of celebrating New Year Photo by Calum Hutchinson (CC-BY-SA-2.5) Beltane (and Beltaine or Bealltainn) is an ancient festival which celebrates the end of the cold and the beginning of the warm. It comes from the ancient peoples of the Celtic Nations and is generally seen as a New Year celebration. Bealtane is a cross-quarter [...]

    Happy Beltaine 2010

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    The ancient Celtic practise of celebrating New Year Photo by Calum Hutchinson (CC-BY-SA-2.5) Beltane (and Beltaine or Bealltainn) is an ancient festival which celebrates the end of the cold and the beginning of the warm. It comes from the ancient peoples of the Celtic Nations and is generally seen as a New Year celebration. Bealtane is a cross-quarter [...]

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  • The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has produced another information sheet to keep people here and at home aware of any information they should know. It is very safe here and the matter appears to be completely internal with no harm being directed at tourists of visitors to Thailand. They main concern appears to be [...]

    State of emergency in Bangkok information

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | 6 Comments
    The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has produced another information sheet to keep people here and at home aware of any information they should know. It is very safe here and the matter appears to be completely internal with no harm being directed at tourists of visitors to Thailand. They main concern appears to be [...]

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  • In order to keep everyone outside of Thailand informed we have included information from the Tourism Authority of Thailand here to allow others to follow the story of the protest as it develops. Please understand that this has been a peaceful protest so far and is expected to continue to be until it comes to its [...]

    Political protests update 15/03/2010

    Posted on March 15, 2010 | No Comments
    In order to keep everyone outside of Thailand informed we have included information from the Tourism Authority of Thailand here to allow others to follow the story of the protest as it develops. Please understand that this has been a peaceful protest so far and is expected to continue to be until it comes to its [...]

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