Purpose of this Blog: 

To provide visitors to Thailand with interesting information that might be useful before and/or during their visit to this amazing country. The navigation here is quite simple. Click on the large W6AZ to the left of Links up above and you will get a listing in reverse chronological order of all the postings here. Click on any article title to read just that posting. From any particular posting, you can go to the previous posting by clicking on the green arrow on the left side. To go to the next posting (later), click on the green arrow on the right side. 

This software was written by Dave Winer, famous for being the first Internet blogger and for having created RSS, an essential tool for bloggers and readers of blogs, as well as having invented podcasting with Adam Curry in 2004. His Scripting News website is one that I followed daily for several years, during which time Dave developed many great tools for bloggers, this being one of them. Dave has routinely made his tools available to bloggers for free. I have tried many different blogging tools and blog websites over the years, but have come back to this one, as it is the best one for my purposes. I am very grateful to Dave for all his hard work in providing many tools to the blogging community, many of which I use frequently and routinely. Previously I posted My Ten Essentials for Travel in Thailand, using another one of Dave's blogging tools.

This particular instance of Dave's software is installed on a server I rent on the Internet, so I have control over what appears here. This part is entirely due to the hard work of Andy Sylvester, a software developer who I met through the Dave Winer blogging community, who configured the server for me and installed Dave's software on it. I made a number of attempts to configure a server myself, something which Dave Winer has encouraged over the years, but I'm a blogger and a tax accountant, not a software developer. So this blog truly would NOT be here, if it weren't for Andy's considerable help. Huge thanks to Andy! 

Image by Anonymous (Thailand) - Walters Art Museum (via Wikimedia). In Thailand white elephants are considered sacred and are a symbol of royal power.