First 24 hours in Thailand
Thailand is hot, like really really hot and after an 11 hour flight on British Airways where they ran out of both the beef and Heineken, followed by a much shorter 1 hour flight and then a 1 hour tax drive, I made it to Tiger Muay Thai and Signature Phuket at about 15:00. After checking my bags in to Signature I went down to Tiger Muay Thai and was given a tour and had a meet and great with all the people that worked there. The meal plan was explained as well as all the other activities that go on around the camp and how to sort out personal training. By the end of the tour I’d been awake for over 26 hours so had no intention of eating right or doing any exercise so decided to have a ‘last meal’ of the Signature Burger with Bacon and Cheese for the very modest sum of 100 BAHT (about £1.80) then crashed at about 17:00.
Travelling With High Blood Pressure
The biggest reason for my trip to Phuket and Tiger Muay Thai is to relax, rejuvenate my health and kick myself back in to the shape I used to be. At the moment I am suffering from High Blood Pressure which hopefully will sort itself with eating healthily and regular exercise.
Travel Insurance For High Blood Pressure
Having High Blood Pressure counts as a pre-existing medical condition, something a lot of insurance companies are not fond of covering. This is compounded by the complexity of getting insurance for extended trips of world travel with no set itinerary.
Is This The Most Important Script You’ll Ever Write?
Since my first IT job ever, I’ve taken part in a tradition started by the guy I was replacing. A tradition known to us as escape.pl, and something people in my local Linux Administrator community have kept with for well over a decade now.
The Most Important Script You’ll Ever Write?
The first time I saw it it was written in Perl, I’ve since written them in Bash, Java and now Javascript. I’ve just seen one written in AWK. Some are cleverer than others, some just do the bare minimum. Some are executed by hand, others are run each time a new terminal is opened thanks to .profile, .bashrc or whatever’s managing your shell environment.
First Item Sold
I’ve been working on several product niches, following Anton’s Drop Ship Lifestyle system for a few months now, along side all my other projects, and this week I got my first sale so I’m very excited for the future.
Drop Ship Lifestyle has a very vibrant community, both online with their members only forums and in Chiang Mai, Thailand where Anton is based at the moment, and watching everyone else getting results has been extremely motivational for me. However there is nothing like actually getting results yourself and it’s very reassuring to know that the Drop Ship Lifestyle system really does work.
yum error: Couldn’t fork Cannot allocate memory
I’ve been doing some awesome things to a new VM for work, namely installing CouchDB, Apache and running Node.JS apps along side a WordPress plugin using Angular.JS. It’s pretty cool. But computer’s are dicks so when it came down to installing Monit to ensure everything was lovely I got the following error: Couldn’t fork %pre(monit-5.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64): Cannot allocate memory. Bum.
error: Couldn’t fork %pre(monit-5.5-1.el6.rf.x86_64): Cannot allocate memory
Seem’s simple enough, for whatever reason Yum cannot allocate memory, so lets take a peak
Downsizing And Travelling Light With A Kindle
I love reading but reading for myself is something that only happens nowadays if I go on holiday. There’s far too much work related material to read instead.
One of the things I want to do is read more, and for myself. There are at least a dozen books going dusty that I haven’t read yet and many more that I need to catch up on!
12 Weeks in Thailand: The Good Life on the Cheap
I’d been toying with the idea of escaping my 9-5 for a while and came up with 2 different ideas. The first was to go to the Mana Retreat in New Zealand, volunteer and live for free whilst meditating and doing yoga.
The second idea was a Thai fight camp.
Googling lead me to JohnnyFD and this book, 12 Weeks in Thailand: The Good Life on the Cheap, a sort of motivational biography about how Johnny visited Thailand on holiday and then decided to move there training in Muay Thai and becoming a scuba instructor.
The Trip Is Booked!
Today I took action and booked flights out to Phuket, Thailand and made arrangements for my first week out there.
Most People In Life Don’t Show Up
Technically I started making arrangements last year, when I handed in my notice at work, only to ask for it back and change role.
I also booked a trip to Turkey over Christmas which I didn’t go on as I wasn’t feeling it.
The Albert Burger – Best Burger in Brighton?
It’s rare that I’m genuinely in shock and awe of something, but that’s how I felt last night in The Albert, down under Brighton train station!
The menu came with a crazy amount of options, so for the burger I added bacon and cheese and for the chips, thick cut rather than skinny and chilli and cheese. Not chilli cheese mind, as that was a separate option, as were the beef brisket, hash browns, onion rings, guacamole etc etc etc TOO MANY CHOICES! The entire thing came to £10 on the nose.