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Changkhui (Thai, Mondays)

The program focuses on technology, IT, telecom, books, etc. Depending on each individual schedule, we usually have 2, 3 or 4 of us in the podcast. Since one of us lives in New Jersey, we sometime use Skype to exchange the experience over there.

Changkhui: 96. Life in LA by MonoBangkok: Direct Download; MP3 17 MB 37 minutes - August 25, 2008; Having been chatting on MSN for a while, we felt like we could make an episode out of this, so we might as well. MonoBangkok was one of our listeners, who resided in LA for the last 6 years. However, his life there was not on bed of roses. He had to work in a Thai restaurant for 2 years before he could afford a place in a MBA class. It could have been an episode on Study Abroad, but more the content was more on life there rather than on the study part, so we decided to put it here, saving us another episode, too.

Changkhui: 95. iPhone by DTAC and Thailand Next Web Apps 2008: Direct Download; MP3 26 MB 56 minutes - August 20, 2008; As to mark the event, we launched this episode for our 2nd-year anniversary. We managed to get Pakorn, Senior Vice President of DTAC, to share some information about iPhone, what's the big deal of having it in Thailand and when we can see this. We were very thankful for the info. And then we put mEnE, one of our listeners, Kangg (Siampod) and Ford to share their experience at the Thailand Next Web Apps 2008 on August 16, 2008. It was nice to hear such movement in Thailand and hopefully, we would see much more than this at Bar Camp Bangkok 2.

Changkhui: 94. Internet at Work: Direct Download; MP3 20 MB 42 minutes - August 18, 2008; This was supposed to be a four-man episode, but due to unscheduled work, we had to settle with three. Piyatad (Job) was back, sneaking from the back door at home, to join us. We talked about work-life balance at the office. It was getting harder and harder to say which was work and which was not. Also, we talked about the use of Twitter and Job had an idea to use it at work and family.

Changkhui: 93. 3G iPhone Apps: Direct Download; MP3 24 MB 52 minutes - August 11, 2008; We engaged Koson to share his 3G iPhone experience, now that he had it. The usual suspects turned up during the conversation, such as short-battery-life problem and MobileMe, but the apps were nice, and some were even free. We ended our conversation on our appearance on Prachachart Thurakit.

Changkhui: 92. Notebooks 2: Direct Download; MP3 39 MB 1 hour 25 minutes - August 4, 2008; Due to comments on our webboards and, also, lack of creativity on my part, we talked about the notebooks. This time, we focused on monitor, battery, mouse, keyboard, harddisk and power supply. We also mentioned the up-and-coming BarCamp Bangkok 2 (http://www.barcampbangkok.org) on Saturday August 30, 2008.

Changkhui: 91. Being a Manager 2: Direct Download; MP3 32 MB 1 hour 8 minutes - July 28, 2008; Had we known that this would be a popular episode, we would have prepared much more. Obviously, this was recorded directly after the previous episode. As usual, Wiroon prepared a script and everyone contributed accordingly. Again, don't quote us or use this as a guideline, we just shared our experience here.

Changkhui: 90. Being a Manager: Direct Download; MP3 25 MB 54 minutes - July 21, 2008; Having heard a few arguments lately, we decided to share our experiences on this. Facing some difficult staffs, who would like to be managers, but were not qualified, we talked about what kind of qualities we look for when we promoted ones. We would like to emphasize here that not everyone wanted to be a manager and we were not discussing about leadership and manager, either. Nothing ideal or theoretical, we just shared our experiences.

Changkhui: 89. Notebooks: Direct Download; MP3 32 MB 1 hr. 8 min. - July 14, 2008; In reply to a fan's request, we talked how we went about selecting our notebooks or laptops. We started from what we used and liked and ended up in what criteria we used in selecting one. Also, we talked about the notebook companion, the case. At the end, Passakorn also talked about the latest seminar that he attended at Bank of Thailand, a new process for cheque handling.

Changkhui: 88. Singapore: Direct Download; MP3 17 MB 38 min. - July 6, 2008; Passakorn went to CommunicAsia 2008 in Singapore a few weeks ago, so he talked about what he saw over there. Worawat, who was, at one time, a frequent visitor, also shared his experience when he went there for training.

Changkhui: 87. Windows: Direct Download; MP3 40 MB 1hr 27 min. - June 30, 2008; In tradition of bidding farewell to Bill Gates leaving Microsoft, we dedicated this episode on Windows, hate it or love it, this is the most successful operating system in the world. Ford and Passakorn shared their experience and opinion about Windows. It seemed that they got carried away, this was one of the longest episodes of Changkhui, so far.

Changkhui: 86. 3G iPhone: Direct Download; MP3 29 MB 1hr 3 min. - June 23, 2008; Due to a trip overseas, the show went missing for a week. Also, because of the trip, we could not have come up in timely manner with the launch of 3G iPhone almost two weeks earlier. However, Koson was still able to come up with some materials from the event. We talked mostly about the platform the phone promised and what to expect in the future.

Changkhui: 85. Pizza Boy: Direct Download; MP3 15 MB 33 min. - June 9, 2008; We had a guest on this episode. Felix was our fan, who lived in Pangan Island. He was the one who paid Passakorn a visit during his stop in Bangkok a month ago. We both read an recommended topic in Pantip.Com and shared comments on this episode. Thank you Felix and hope to host an episode with you again, sometime.

Changkhui: 84. Interent Traffic: Direct Download; MP3 21 MB 46 min. - June 2, 2008; We went off topic this week. Our friend, Chalermporn or Ning, just came back from Tasmania, so we decided to invite her over to share us her trip experience. She also brought along some photos so we put this episode in M4A format, and you all can view them. Sorry that we were off topic this week, we should be back to normal next episode.

Changkhui: 83. Computer Crime Bill Seminar: Direct Download; MP3 58 MB 2 hr. 5 min. - May 26, 2008; Once again, we used our corporate resource to our advantage. There was an interesting seminar, organized by UIH (where Passakorn worked with), about Thailand computer crime bill. The issue involved around the log management which would require all enterprises that provided internet access to have a centralized log files. There were six in the panel, there were Mr.Chaiyakorn Apiwathanokul, CSO (Chief Security Officer) PTT ICT Solutions Company Limited, a company of PTT Group, Mr.Kumpol Sontanarat, Director of Information Technology Department – Securities and Exchange Commission, Miss Surangkana Wayuparb Director of Ethical, Legal and Social Impact of Information Technology Research Division / NECTEC, Assoc.Prof.Dr.Sujate Jantarang, President, Mahanakorn University of Technology, Pol.Col.Yanaphon Youngyuen, Department of Special Investigation and Mr. Prinya Hom-Anek, President and Founder ACIS Professional Center. This was an interesting topic and the conversation cleared up a lot of fears, uncertainty and doubts among those who were yet to implement this. Hope it would be useful. Highly recommended to share this among office colleagues.

Changkhui: 82. Tasmania: Direct Download; M4A 30 MB 1hr. 6 min. - May 19, 2008; We went off topic this week. Our friend, Chalermporn or Ning, just came back from Tasmania, so we decided to invite her over to share us her trip experience. She also brought along some photos so we put this episode in M4A format, and you all can view them. Sorry that we were off topic this week, we should be back to normal next episode.

Changkhui: 81. at MCOT FM100.5: Direct Download; MP3 21MB 45 min. - May 12, 2008; Out of the blues, we were invited to air at FM 100.5 at MCOT on the very day we were called. Of course, we obliged. A lot of the stories we talked about were mentioned a few times here and there in our podcasts, but for the major audience of the shows, these should be quite new. Anyway, we would like to thank MCOT for honoring us to introduce ourselves.

Changkhui: 80. Connection 2: Direct Download; MP3 21MB 44 min. - May 5, 2008; Recording directly after the previous episode, so the mood of the discussion continued. Ood elaborated more on what he had read from Bundit Uengrungsri book. Surprisingly, Wiroon shined on this episode, and was quite funny. Sorry for the language, it was a little informal and vulgar.

Changkhui: 79. Connection 1: Direct Download; MP3 14MB 31 min. - April 28, 2008; Sutin was inspired by an article he read about the power of connection, so he hosted the episode and gathered some friends to share their networking experience. The sound quality was not at its best but the fun should make up for it. Due to the technical reason, we decided to divide the episode into 2 parts to fix the technical problem.

Changkhui: 78. HSPA: Direct Download; MP3 16MB 33 min. - April 21, 2008; After a long holiday, we came back with some laziness still sticking on us. A somewhat lazy episode. We talked about the movement on HSPA by AIS and the response from the DTAC. Before diving into the topic, we talked some various issues, such as fan mails.

Changkhui: 77. Lost in Translation: Direct Download; MP3 22MB 48 min. - April 7, 2008; Having attending a presentation recently by overseas company, it triggers us to think of the topic. All these presentations could have been much better if they paid more attention on customers background and, also, the Thai culture. We invited our friend, David B. Aldridge to share his experience in dealing with the situation as both a listener and a presenter. We luckily caught him just a few days before he went overseas.

Changkhui: 76. Black Hat: Direct Download; MP3 26MB 56 min. - March 31, 2008; We watched the Kapook press conference at http://duocore.ch7.com/xxxkapookcom with great interest. we were quite sure that not many people outside of the IT world would be able to understand the conversation, at least I don't know the term Black Hat that was mentioned a few times in the video. Also with after-press blogs from http://blog.aanthe.com/?p=28 and http://www.prachatai.com/05web/th/home/11656, we decided to talk about what the issue really was and pay more attention to the technical side, rather than the social implications.

Changkhui: 75. SongBuri.Com: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 17MB 36 min. - March 24, 2008; From the TK Park event on Sunday that we mentioned on previous episode, we met quite a few interesting sites. One of the sites that we were interested in was SongBuri.Com, they were trying to be the musical web portal, they even tried to sell songs back in 2006 and found out the hard way that the business might not be there just yet. We talked to khun Nirun Chaiyadet, Web Application Programmer of SongBuri about the site business. You may want to find out more at http://www.songburi.com

Changkhui: 74. Mix08: Direct Download; MP3 26MB 57 min. - March 17, 2008; From Windows Weekly (http://www.twit.tv), we went on to see the event at http://sessions.visitmix.com, this was a MicroSoft Web Developer seminar. We then asked Ford to share his knowledge on MicroSoft's SilverLight. The Keynote was interesting, it featured an interview between Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO). This was a rather technical episode. Also, we were invited by DuoCore (http://www.duocore.tv) to join a seminar at TK Park, Central World, on Sunday March 23, 10:30-12:30. There would be a few Thai internet TV producers there. If you are interested.

Changkhui: 73. Hero Master: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 24MB 52 min. - March 10, 2008; We first heard about Hero Master from the Manager.Co.Th site, this was a role-playing game developed by three Thai guys, who loved playing games. It was great for the facts that they did get a lot of exposure on IT media, they were mentioned in BlogNone.Com, DuoCore.Tv, BearTai TV and a few other sites, all encouraging. Then a few weeks later, there was a post at DuoCore.TV that they might have to close shop much faster than they had anticipated. What happened, we had to ask. It was the same old story keep repeating itself in different industries, they has to succumb to the power of software piracy. So we invited them over to, at least, give them some exposure and share their thoughts on the situation. You could visit them at http://www.bigbugstudio.com, and our guest on this episode was Warit Achavanantakul.

Changkhui: 72. Angel Investing: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 15MB 32 min. - March 3, 2008; Intrigued by what we listened from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, Stanford University, iTunes U, we decided to make an episode about it. We referred to the episode on January 23, 2008. Ron Conway, Founder of Angel Investors LP, and Mike Maples, Founder of Maples Investments, talked about their thoughts on their careers. We can't help but think of SIPA projects when they talked about the importance of being at Silicon Valley.

Changkhui: 71. WiMax Trial in the middle of the sea, at Phuket: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MOV (QuickTime) 266MB 48 min. - February 25, 2008; I was away for a week due to heavy workload and I had a video to prove it. I was a part of the WiMax trial team at UIH (http://www.uih.co.th). Our president, Vichai Bencharongkakul took a few press to demonstrate WiMax capability by taking them on a cruise and demo internet connection at 1km away from the beach. Things went well as you could see on the video clip. There were some surprising moments here and there, but all were good. This clip could be a little bit personal but I think it's still fun to watch.

Changkhui: 70. Bar Camp Bangkok 2008: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 45 min. - February 11, 2008; Ford attended the Bar Camp Bangkok 2008 on January 26, 2008 at the Indus restaurant, Sukhumvit 26. The event was widely considered a great success, considering the amount of people who turned up and the sponsorship received. Too bad, this went unnoticed from Thai mainstream media. More at http://www.thaicyberpoint.com/ford/blog/id/458

Changkhui: 69. What's Your Degree?: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 31MB 1 hr 7 min. - February 4, 2008; Inspired by two incidents, we decided to share our experience in seeing people from non-tech degree to perform fairly well in tech field. During an episode at BoagWorld.Com, the interviewee said that the reason she came into web design industry because she was pregnant and out of curiosity, she decided to explore what she could do on the Internet and she was a dancer! Passakorn also witnessed a pretty good technical presentation on computer security from a guy who had a degree in political science!

Changkhui: 68. When to Buy: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 31MB 1 hr 7 min. - January 28, 2008; This was one episode where we did not really talk about the topic that we intended to. Inspired by Steve Job´s presentation (again) on MacBook Air, Wiroon asked what would trig us into buying a new gadget. Then he talked about what to consider when getting a new computer.

Changkhui: 67. The Wired Article on iPhone: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 14MB 29 min. - January 14, 2008; We talked about the article that was mentioned in Digg, the TWIT podcasts and CNET. The article "The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry By Fred Vogelstein" was well-writen and insightful about the creation of iPhone from the business perspective.

Changkhui: 66. Home Media Center and Google 101: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 25MB 54 min. - January 7, 2008; 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.

Changkhui: 65. iQuit 2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 26MB 56 min. - December 31, 2007; 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.

Changkhui: 64. iQuit 1: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 58 min. - December 24, 2007; 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.

Changkhui: 63. Can Factory by Ben: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 59 min. - December 17, 2007; 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.

Changkhui: 62. Net Neutrality: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 16MB 35 min. - December 10, 2007; 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.

Changkhui: 61. Bittorrent: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 17MB 36 min. - December 3, 2007; Worawat and Passakorn thanked our fans for showing 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.

Changkhui: 60. WiMax Update and Uncle Add: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 21MB 46 min. - November 26, 2007; 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.

Changkhui: 59. Working with Thais by David Aldridge: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 19MB 40 min. - November 19, 2007; 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.

Changkhui: 58. Justice Online by Sarinee Achavanuntakul: Direct Downlaod; BitTorrent Download; MP3 11MB 24 min. - November 12, 2007; 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 Prachachart 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.

Changkhui: 57. Last.fm and Justice Online: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 7MB 30 min. - November 5, 2007; 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.

Changkhui: 56. Working in Hong Kong: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 17MB 38 min. - October 29, 2007; We have a guest. Khun Pisit is a CitiBank manager, who has been working in Hong Kong for a few years. He was an office-colleague of Koson during their IBM days and is visiting Koson in New York, where he is attending a training. This episode is a light episode, only touching on what living in Hong Kong is like.

Changkhui: 55. Helping "Big" and SOA: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 34MB 1 hr 13 min. - October 22, 2007; Supposedly a direct sequel to the previous episode, but we would like to insert some PR news. Due to the blog post at http://badzboy.10thingsabout.com/archives/195, we would like to make some contribution. The blog owner was one of our fans, who was still working at the RS company. We invited him for a short interview and helped spreading the news. As for the conversation with Koson, he touched on a few more topics such as current programming trends, CEP and SOA. We left it for your judgment for what SOA was.

Changkhui: 54. Grid Computing: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 23MB 50 min. - October 15, 2007; We crossed the Pacific to talk to our old friend, Koson in New York. Since he worked in Research and Development field, so it was appropriate to let him show us the current development in the industry he was in. This was financial sector. We talked about various topics, and the conversation was quite long. So we divided into 2 episodes. For this week he talked about Grid Computing.

Changkhui: 53. Freshy Ceremony 2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 15MB 42 min. - October 8, 2007; A news triggered us to talk about the topic. This was a tradition, carrying on for as long as ones could remember in Thailand to throw a ceremony or a party to new comers especially for first year university students. And every year, things tended to get out of hand, there would be some injuries or sickness caused by such events at various universities throughout Thailand. Therefore, another nostalgic episodes on our experience during those years. However, since there were many of us, we had to divide the conversation into 2 episodes. This was the second one.

Changkhui Special: iPhone by Kangg Siampod: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP4 279MB 35 min. - October 6, 2007; Kangg, from Siampod called to discuss his passion for iPhone. Well, in order to spice things up, we decided to meet and record an episode about it. But once, we met, we switched to a video recording since we also brought a notebook. We then discussed about the incident at Apple Thailand press conference on September 18. This incident was well published at Siampod. It involved an petition to Apple to support Thai in iPod.

Changkhui: 52. Freshy Ceremony 1: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 10MB 42 min. - October 1, 2007; A news triggered us to talk about the topic. This was a tradition, carrying on for as long as ones could remember in Thailand to throw a ceremony or a party to new comers especially for first year university students. And every year, things tended to get out of hand, there would be some injuries or sickness caused by such events at various universities throughout Thailand. Therefore, another nostalgic episodes on our experience during those years. However, since there were many of us, we had to divide the conversation into 2 episodes. This was the first one.

Changkhui: 51. Office and Factory: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 16MB 1hr 9 min. - September 24, 2007; One of our fans, Ben Thaiaporn, shared his working experience. He used to work in Bangkok as a service engineer, went back home in Saraburi and worked in a factory, so he was able to compared life as an office worker and a factory engineer. Some of the stories were laughing matter now, but surely were not laughing materials when they happened. The sound quality might not be of the best quality, we recorded this via Skype connection, but the content should more than make up for it. We would like to thank khun Ben for his courtesy for the interview.

Changkhui: 50. 2007: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 15MB 1hr 5 min. - September 17, 2007; Back to the present day on this episode. We compared notes on what we had been through for the last 13 years. Lives went through all kinds of ups and downs. We exchanged our ideas on buying cars, homes and working experience. Unfortunately, mid-way through the episode, Passakorn had to leave to pick up his car, but our Indies Girl managed to pick up where he left and carried on the conversation. Surachai also jammed the session at the very end.

Changkhui 49: 1994: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 11MB 46 min. - September 10, 2007; We went back in time to 1994 to refresh those memories when we had been working a few years. Some stories were nostalgic stories, such as technologies and software being used at the time, but some were intended to share some frustration among new graduates. We hoped we did not confuse anyone when we opened the episode with the 1994 date.

Changkhui 48: Interview Preparation 2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 26MB 57min. - August 27, 2007; This was the 1st year anniversary of our program and site, we touched a little bit on our site statistics. Since a few of us were going through a few interviews lately and also, the job interview episode was the 3rd top download episode in our program, so we decided to revisit the issue again. Since there were 7 of us, the discussion went much longer that we anticipated, so we had to divide into 2 episodes. And this was the second and last one.

Changkhui 47: Interview Preparation 1: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 12MB 52min. - August 20, 2007; This was the 1st year anniversary of our program and site, we touched a little bit on our site statistics. Since a few of us were going through a few interviews lately and also, the job interview episode was the 3rd top download episode in our program, so we decided to revisit the issue again. Since there were 7 of us, the discussion went much longer that we anticipated, so we had to divide into 2 episodes. And this was the first one.

Changkhui 46: Work Overseas: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 58 min. - August 14, 2007; As requested from our fan, we gathered to discuss about our experience in project management, in terms of experience and certification. Wiroon pretty much prepared most of the materials discussed in the episodes. Since there were six of us, so there were quite a few stories to tell, so we had to split this into 2 episodes, here was the second episode.

Changkhui 45: Project Management 2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 22MB 48 min. - August 6, 2007; As requested from our fan, we gathered to discuss about our experience in project management, in terms of experience and certification. Wiroon pretty much prepared most of the materials discussed in the episodes. Since there were six of us, so there were quite a few stories to tell, so we had to split this into 2 episodes, here was the second episode.

Changkhui 44: Project Management 1: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 24MB 53 min. - July 30, 2007; As requested from our fan, we gathered to discuss about our experience in project management, in terms of experience and certification. Wiroon pretty much prepared most of the materials discussed in the episodes. Since there were six of us, so there were quite a few stories to tell, so we had to split this into 2 episodes, here was the first episode.

Changkhui 43: RS Digital: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 37MB 1hr 21 min. - July 23, 2007; A fan arranged this for us and we almost missed it. Please always check the SPAM or Junk folders in your email accounts. Vorapoj Nimvijit, Senior Vice President of RS, in charge of RS Digital, was kind enough to provide us an interview. He explained the four products and services that he was responsible and cleared some of our nagging questions about iTunes and music copyright. We would like to thank khun Kitti, khun Nongluck and khun Vorapoj for making this interview possible.

Changkhui 42: Web Hosting experience: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 33MB 1hr 11min. - July 16, 2007; Out of curiosity, we invited the Siampod team, Kangg and Ford to share their web hosting experience. Changkhui has been hosted at GoDaddy, in the USA from the beginning due to budgeting reason, that left a nagging question, what if we hosted in Thailand. Well, Siampod has switched to the same company, GoDaddy, for the last two months, so they surely had enough experience to tell us if this was a good move.

Changkhui 41: Podcast Tips: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 26MB 56 min - July 9, 2007; This was supposed to be episode 40, but due to recording schedule conflict, we had to shift the recording to this week. We had some recommended sites for those who were interested in producing podcasts or listening to more podcasts. We recommended the site http://www.joecipriano.com to find a link to an online seminar by Apple on how to produce better podcasts. This was a very good content for those who were interested in producing ones. Also we talked about iTunes U, an excellent educational content available freely on iTunes that not too many Thais were aware of.

Changkhui 40: iPhonemania: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 20MB 43 min. - July 2, 2007; Koson managed to get an iPhone for himself, though he was suspicious about it five months ago when we recorded a podcast on the topic. You could say that he was drawn into the dark side. So we discussed about what he felt about this gadget, or should we say toy? The downside for Thai would be the facts that Safari on iPhone did not support Thai fonts yet, but the upside was the internet connection was faster than expected. Hear it for yourself about the experience.

Changkhui 39: How to Produce a Podcast: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 11MB 48 min - June 18, 2007; Having seen a few Thai podcasts popping up recently, we decided to share our experience in producing our podcasts. Also, we have now switched to MAC, so it's time to share our Windows and Mac experience in producing our podcasts in the last 10 months. For those who are interested in producing ones, this would be a start.

Changkhui 38: Wi-Fi Deployment: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; M4A 14MB 57min - June 11, 2007; Somewhat a commercially sensitive issue, Wiroon shared his experience in deploying in a public area; Siam Square. He told his experience in dealing with shop owners, sub-contractors and the project owner. This was supposedly a 3-month project, that turned into a 5-month project. This was a rare story to hear and hope you all enjoy it.

Changkhui 37: Emails: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 31MB 1hr 8 min - May 27, 2007; Wiroon was on a roll! He was the only one of us who prepared a script for the program. This time we asked him to prepare the topic and went with the flow with him. This time we shared our bad experience in writing and sending emails.

Changkhui 36: Backup: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 29MB 1hr 2 min - May 21, 2007; Wiroon shared his experience in the importance of data backup; some were his first-hand experiences and some were what he had witnessed. Surachai showed his good practice in backing up data.

Changkhui 35: Office Security, part 2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 22MB 47 min. - May 14, 2007; Part 2 from the previous episode. Wiroon stressed on the cautions of password selection, used document, the importance of using a shredder and recycled papers. It looked like Wiroon would be a regular host from this episode onwards.

Changkhui 34: Office Security, part 1: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 23MB 50 min - May 7, 2007; After being away for two weeks, we almost made it three. Pattanapong was overseas, Piyatad and Worawat were busy with their families. It came up during a conversation before dinner that we decided to have a recording session about it. This time Wiroon commented based on his working experience in issues about securities in working environment.

Changkhui 33 (audio): Google: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 18MB 40 min - April 16, 2007; We took a look at Google business model and revenue structure. We used Yahoo and Microsoft financial information to make some comparison. Well, Google was really in great shape, but not as big as Microsoft, just yet.

Changkhui 32: Paysbuy.com: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 25MB 54 min - April 11, 2007; Suchote Cheewakoset, CEO, and Somwang Laungphaiboonsri, GM, gave an interviewed on April 9, 2005.This is a Thai company, started by two years ago. At the time of the interview, they had over 60,000 members with over 1,500 business customers. They also provided Sanook Wallet for Sanook.com. You may want to visit them at http://www.paysbuy.com. In short, they are in the same business as Paypal, which we discussed in episode 15.

Changkhui 31: WiMax in Thailand: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 30MB 1hr 6 min - April 2, 2007; It's topic that we heard a few times, without really knowing what it was, so we decided to discuss about it. It also happened that Worawat was quite knowledgeable on the topic, especially Thailand aspect. We also talked about careers in telecom and information technology.

Changkhui 30: HDTV Experience in the USA: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 58min - March 26, 2007; Koson just had his first HDTV installed, so he shared us his experience, so far. This is something we can just dream about it on this part of the world. However, as discussed in the program, Koson was not entirely impressed with it, simply due to lack of content, which will improve over time. I did get confused over connecting all these HDTV, TIVO, Apple TV, Blue Ray / Hi-Def DVD and a home theatre.

Changkhui 29: Six Degrees of Separation: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 18MB 39 min. - March 19, 2007; Six Degrees of Separation, a topic we covered this, and went on to talk about the Tipping Point by Malcalm Gladwell. And, in the end, Passakorn talked about his one degree of separation to a world famous cannibal case.

Changkhui 28: An Inconvenient Solution: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 32MB 1hr8min - March 12, 2007; A discussion on the content in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth". Pattanapong, as the only one who had seen the movie, explained on what the movie was about. We pulled in Surachai to give us some angles on current development in construction. We also opined on how the current trend in wearing yellow shirts to work and how it could help reducing the global warming effect.

Changkhui 27: Web Sites We used and Column 8: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 18MB 37min - February 26, 2007; Finally, we had a payment on our paypal account, and it came from overseas for our T-shirt, thanks so much. We also openly ask for sponsor on our show. Hope there is a taker. This week we talked about web services we used on regular basis, such as SCBEasy.com, SCBBusinessnet.com, KimEng, Royal Orchid and Bangkok Bank. We also opened a new section in our show, Column 8, since we used a material from the Book The Best of Column 8, from the Sydney Morning Herald.

Changkhui 26: Ig Nobel: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 24MB 51min - February 20, 2007; This was first meant to be for Mai Hlap Mai Non, but once the recording started, we changed our mind and decided to put it in Changkhui instead, due to the nature of the subject. In this episode, we had Ood, Gan, Boy, Aum and Passakorn, discussing about Ig Nobel. For more information, you can look for it at http://improbable.com/ig

Changkhui 25: Intelligent Network: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 26MB 55min - February 16, 2007; Thank god, we came out alive for the last episode, this time we were back in tech. We explained what IN was for, fundamental concept, applications, and how much it cost. We also talked a little bit about maintenance agreement, Worawat shared his experience in dealing with it. We also used the PCT as an example for IN, and how it could be an opportunity for a Thai software company, but it would be very tough.

Changkhui 24: Al Day in a Monk's Life: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 40MB 1hr25min - February 5, 2007; Yes, we know, this is really nothing to do with tech. But heh!, the conversation was really fun and full of energy. We have gathered three guys who, at one-time, became a monk. We then took turn asking questions what it was like. Also, we also asked the FAQ if monks wear underwear.

Changkhui 23: Presentation: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 25MB 53min - January 29, 2007; Inspired by Steve Jobs's presentation of iPhone, we talked about our presentation experience. We all had been listening to ones, and, occasionally, we also had to give ones. Some of the techniques used were discussed here and some of the more annoying ones are discussed here. We also quote the book "You are the Message" by "Roger Ailes" and "The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling" by "Annette Simmons" as guidelines.

Changkhui 22: iPhone: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 45MB 1hr38min - January 23, 2007; Koson shared his experience in using a blackberry and his take on the newly-introduced iPhone by Apple. We mainly shared our view, rather than going through specification. Also, one of audience, khun Preecha (http://www.popidols.net) shared his knowledge on DRM and what he thought of the impact of iPhone in Thailand.

Changkhui 21: Ghost: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 29MB 1hr2min - January 15, 2007; The topic http://www.pantip.com/cafe/chalermthai/topic/A5021490/A5021490.html triggered us to discuss about the issue. Does ghost exist? A trivial question that can never have an answer that satisfies both sides of the argument. We discuss if ghosts exist, we certainly would like to ask a few questions or, even better, interview them.

Changkhui 20: CamFrog: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 58min - January 8, 2007; Feeling rather odd about the famous CamFrog program, Passakorn seeked an advice from a real user. He asked about what you could see in the community and what type of people used it. A curious look from an outsider.

Changkhui 19: Password: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 21MB 45min - December 25, 2006; A light discussion on what we have been experiencing in using Passwords, whether they are for emails, corporate logins, ATM, locks, etc. The TOP 10 passwords was taken from http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/top-10-most-common-passwords.

Changkhui 18: Dilbert: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 12MB 26min - December 18, 2006; We decided to take a break by doing something light. We heard the story from Buzz Out Loud and followed up on to the Dilbert's writer, Scott Adams. This is a strange story. And then some other stories that caused some inconveniences to others.

Changkhui 17: ToHome.com: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 26MB 56min - December 11, 2006; Passakorn interviewed the founder and the Managing director of http://www.ToHome.com, Teeravut Wongvibulsin. He kindly explained how he started the business in 1999, the current trends, etc. Thank you khun Teeravut for the interview.

Changkhui 16: VM Ware by Koson: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 33MB 1hr12min - December 4, 2006; Obviously impressed with the show, Koson shared his experience and commented on VM Ware conference. He explained in general what it was, its advantage and its application. This should be interesting to those in the IT industry. I felt out of my depth here. He also told us his experience in converting to a MAC user. And the crazy Christmas shopping in the USA.

Changkhui 15: PayPal: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 17MB 37min - November 27, 2006; Piyatad prepared the foundation of the discussion by preparing some materials about what PayPal did and how it was started. We then exchanged our opinions and comments to some related services in Thailand.

Changkhui 14: AIS, DTAC and True Move Frequency Allocation: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 26MB 56min - November 20, 2006; Worawat explained in general about the issue that AIS raised to attack DTAC. This is about the GSM frequency allocation in Thailand and what each operator had in operation.

Changkhui 13: Woman as a Civil Engineer: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 58min - November 13, 2006; Passakorn interviewed Chalermporn Kaoian, a lady civil engineer. she told her story from going through engineering school, working in a design firm, a construction firm, a consulting firm and an owner firm. She criticized the hard and easy part of each role, and how her gender could, sometimes, is an obstacle.

Changkhui 12: Job Interview: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 27MB 58min - November 6, 2006; We shared our experience in interviewing candidates; what we usually asked, common pitfalls among candidates, what qualifications we were looking for and some common questions we usually asked.

Changkhui 11: Thai Engineer in the USA, Part2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 33MB 1hr12mins - October 30, 2006; Part 2, we talked about how he had an interview with Microsoft, but he did not like the offer, so he decided not to. Then he told us his story how he went on to other firms before he arrived where he was at the moment.

Changkhui 11: Thai Engineer in the USA, Part1: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 23MB 49mins - October 23, 2006; He told us from his graduation from KMITL with GPA 3.43, to his joining IBM Thailand and how he went for his degree at USC. It was a long interview so we made it into two parts.

Changkhui 10: Science in Movies: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 30MB 1hr 6mins - October 16, 2006; Interesting topics but the movies were probably a little bit old, such as "The Hunt for Red October", "Jurassic Park" and "The Abyss". We discussed if the science being used or referred to in the movies were real. It turned into an interesting discussion that lasted about 1hr.

Changkhui 9: Emails: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 19MB 41mins - October 9, 2006; Back to Tech Talk as usual. We talked about the use of Emails, misuse of emails, etc. Some mails were mistreated as "SPAM" , when they should not be treated as such. Also, our first commercial ads. But it's simply an introduction to our other program.

Changkhui 8: Life at Schlumberger 1 of 2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 23MB 50mins - October 2, 2006; I just happened to find a time slot to talk to Khun Derek Kongsawat, an ex-Schlumberger. The company was well-known of expertise in oil and gas exploration and production. It's also well-known for its high-paid salary. K.Derek gave me the whole 90mins to explain his 3yrs in the company. Thanks khun Derek.

Changkhui 8: Life at Schlumberger 2 of 2: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 22MB 49mins - October 2, 2006; I just happened to find a time slot to talk to Khun Derek Kongsawat, an ex-Schlumberger. The company was well-known of expertise in oil and gas exploration and production. It's also well-known for its high-paid salary. K.Derek gave me the whole 90mins to explain his 3yrs in the company. Thanks khun Derek.

Changkhui 7: Continuation on Security: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 18MB 39mins - September 25, 2006; With sheer co-incident, Passakorn received an email trying to trick him into acting as a merchant for credit card fraud. On the wake of the announcement of banning phone tapping, we dug up an old-but-true joke about one of us (Wiroon) was convinced that his phone was tapped during the NPC-ruling day in 1991 as he worked in the student council in Thammasart. We also shared the story in the latest edition of Fortune magazine (with Eric Schmidt on the cover), a very basic form of insider Trading.

Changkhui: 6. General Discussion about Security: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 19MB 39min - September 17, 2006; We lightly talked about what we had read, heard or witnessed about security. We referred to a few books that we read such as The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll), Takedown (sutomu Shimomura and John Markoff), Catch Me if You Can (Stan Redding (Author), Frank W. Abagnale), The Art of the Steal (Frank W. Abagnale) and Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye (Warren Olson). We also talked about what we had seen in Thailand.

Changkhui: 5. Mobile Network Framework and Some Thai Stats: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 22MB 48min - September 12, 2006; We originally recorded this as the 3rd episode, but because of Koson's schedule, we decided to put his sessions in for the "newness" of the content. So instead of wasting this tape, we decided to put it here. We talked about the framework of mobile networks and design consideration. K.Worawat, who is working in this field, chipped in his 2cents of experience.

Changkhui: 4. Internet Banking and Home Loan via Internet in the USA: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 22.6MB 50min - September 11, 2006; Koson again shared his experience about Internet Banking in the USA and how he obtained his home loans in the USA. The Internet Banking he described is no longer using Internet as a medium, it had become a business process onto itself, talking about Web2.0! He also secured his home loans twice via the Internet.

Changkhui: 3. Talk about Tivo and Netflix: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 10.3MB 23min - September 4, 2006; A friend of mine, Koson, shared his experience with me for this session. He is a software engineer, working in New York, having lived in the USA for 8 years. We talked about Tivo and Netflix, how they work, how much they cost, etc. Something new for this side of the world. Pretty bad sound quality but hope the content will make up for it. Enjoy.

Changkhui: 2. Interview with Game Masters: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 28MB 59min - August 28, 2006; We followed up on the previous interview with K.Taweechai, we went to NC-True to talk to Game Masters, about what they do, how they do it. Let me tell you, these guys are real hardcore gamers, they could play non-stop for two days. Again, this is still in Thai.

Changkhui: 1. Interview with Khun Taweechai Pureethip: Direct Download; BitTorrent Download; MP3 23MB 49min - August 21, 2006; K.Taweechai is the CEO of NC-True, a joint-venture between NC Soft (Korea) and True Corp (Thailand), which distribute packages of game on-line such as Linage in Thailand. He shared us his experience and view about the game on-line market in Thailand, the up-and-coming market of Vietnam, how a customer drove all night from Pitsanulok because her player was banned from the game on that very night, how he perceive the Thai game market, regulatory, etc. Sorry folks, it's in Thai, at this point in time, this is what we have to make do with it.

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