The Olivers In Thailand

We had the privilege to stay at Hoay Maw for a 24 hour period where we were able to document a day in the life of the children of Hoay Maw.

Their schedule was as follows

• 5.30am wake up and get dressed
• 6:00am prayers and worship in church led by house-parents
• 6:15am Chores – sweeping, litter picking, make beds, tidy shoes
• 6:40am Breakfast of rice with some chillies and egg mixed in 7:00am Line up and walk to school – more chores at school
• 8:00am School starts
• 12noon Eat packed lunch at school (rice from breakfast)
• 3:30pm Home from school
• 4:00pm Chinese school for 2 hours
• 6:00pm Play and Meal
• 7:00pm Time in church
• 8:00pm Homework (or “family group” time on Fridays)
• 9-10pm Bed-time

The children have a very long hard day compared to that which most children are used to. It was
however a joy to capture fun moments as the children are developing relational and recreational skills
in their “family groups”.

You can download the video below:

• Full Resolution MP4 141MB (if your player does not play this, try using VLC which does)
• Low Resolution MP4 30MB (if your player does not play this, try using VLC which does)
• Full Resolution MP2 DVD Quality - VERY LARGE 574MB file

PocketWeather V2.0.8 code names "Doi Mae Salong" has finally been release - the day before we fly back to the UK, and in the middle of packing and moving house...oh what fun!

Full details of the new release can be found here.

The moving of all our stuff was entertaining. We hired a company, who provided 6 Thai guys who were fantastic. The loading of the lorry was straight forward. However the unloading was a bit problomatic...

and we had to get everything into this room...

The quickest and by far easiest was via the outside - straight up and over the balcony!

The only item that got damaged was a crack in the corner of our large mirror - which I did...

Adrian

Got a call from "Keith" from DLink this morning (having said he would call yesterday afternoon- not looking good...).

He had tried the DWL-G810 connected to a DSL-G604T, but during the transfer of a large (>1GB) file, it TOO hung.

So both the older DWL-2000AP+ and the "new" DWL-G810 do not properly support WIFI client mode.

The initial through was that it was incompatible with the DSL-G604T, but I tried replacing it with a new WAG354G device - same problem.

Interesting that the DWL-G810 is advertised as "DWL-G810 is a high-speed Ethernet-to-Wireless LAN Client Adapter" - clearly this is not exactly true.

OK I am transferring extreme amounts of data - but with internet TV on the horizon, it won't be long before a 1GB transfer will be considered "small"...

Keith's recommendation was that I return my DWL-2000AP+ and purchase a different manufacturers device!

So back to CCL Online who once again have been extremely helpful.

What next? Certainly will not use or recommend using DLink WIFI devices in Client Mode - the DLink DWL-2000AP+ and DWL-G810 clearly have problems and do not work reliably in WIFI client mode...

Adrian

While we were enjoying camping in the New Forest this past weekend, our missionary friends in Thailand were having to work hard for their keep ... see here.

Adrian

The second replacement arrived yesterday morning by 9am.

Again, a refurbished device. It too still had some folders under "Build-In" storage, but no files. As it looked nicer than the day-before's one (i.e. that one the screen did not look straight), I deviced to accept it.

So far so good - got the BIS - just need to install all the software again...

I wonder how much it is costing Dell to handle each replacement due to the BIS failures...must be lots!

Adrian

Replacement X50v arrived this morning.

Was not a new device but a refurbished device - the guy on the phone said it would be a new device - oh well - never mind.

But this device still had some data in the built-in storage from the previous owner - might have been one of you guys :)

So I rejected it and called Dell - waiting for the supervisor to contact me now...

Adrian