18 December 2007

The World is Flat

Last weekend, my friend's company organized a staff seminar. I was asked to give a speech for an hour at Huahin. I decided to tell all those youngsters the story from the book that I had just recently read. I was written by Thomas Friedman with th ebest seller title "The World is Flat."

The story is really enjoyable to read. The reference cases inside the book was under my trail all the time. So I enjoyed telling the story, plus the knowledge I had known before was used to make the story more enjoyable.

The audience was laughing all the time and participated in answering the questions. It made my little one hour to be a very enjoyable.

At the end, I hope the younsters understand and see clearer picture where our world, especially with IT driven steroids, are heading into. It can sparkle them of what new invention and paradigm may brings and may even inspire them of what their power is adn their boundary is limitless.

07 December 2007

iPod 5G and new firmware(1.2.3) upgrade with Thai font

I had just recently upgraded my iPod 5G with the latest firware (1.2.3). I was so relucktant to do so because I had the Thai font installed on it. Many of my songs are Thai with names written in Thai. Anyhow, I finally decided to give it a try as I beleive the moethod that I used for Thai installation are just Thai font unicode. It should not affect with any operations.

So what I did was I downloaded the firware from apple and have it installed. As I thought, the Thai font disappered from my iPod. I could only see the blank space when it comes to Thai characters. I was so sure the songs were still there as I can still scroll up and down on those spaces where I beleived the song would be. Then I bagan the procedure to install Thai font.

I found this method from the website. which I used before for my last installation, except the font to use was having different typeface. I have to thank to the instruction as posted here for the simple step-by-step to follow. It's simple and safe as you did not modify the firmware directly, but work on a copy version then overwrite it later.

After rebooting, the screen appear blank. I was a bit schocked. So I detached the iPod from the PC and did a reset by pressing the menu and play buttons simultaneously. After rebooting, my screen appear nicely with Thai font just as you seen in that referred article.

Prior to doing anything, you must download the iPodWizard 1.3 and the Thai font first. From doing all this, I did not loose any songs or movies from my iPod. it's safe to try krub.