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I have written about how to test your broadband speed using free internet utility in the article “ Check your Internet Broadband Connection Speed “. Someone who is quite experienced with testing broadband speed suggested another site for testing the internet connection speed. The test meter at Check Speed shows ...... Read in Another broadband speed test .

“Look to the southwest after sunset on Dec. 1 for a close conjunction between three bright solar system objects: the moon, Venus and Jupiter. If you have binoculars, you might even be able to fit all three of them in the field of view. Between now and then, you can see Jupiter and Venus getting closer together each evening.” I just read these lines from MSNBC website. Although it is not yet December 1 ....... Read in Venus, Jupiter shine on Monday Night .

Here is a new Myanmar music mp3 site. This site has a collection of Myanmar music mp3 files from various artists. The Myanmar Music Online mp3 site is the latest in a series of Myanmar mp3 sites currently setting up on the internet. The Myanmar Music Online site has ..... Read in New Myanmar mp3 download .

If you want to know how linux feels like or if you just want to test linux on your computer, you can download one of these linux installers freely available on the internet. However, installing linux on the computer also is risky. The worst is your computer refuses to reboot, and you end up reformatting the whole hard disk to reinstall windows, thus losing all your important data. Believe me, it already occured to me once. In other instances, your linux will not recognize some peripheries such as mouce and key board. And many times, linux is difficult to uninstall. However, there is a risk free solution. The solution is a portable linux. I found a truly portable linux ........ Read in Really Portable Linux - No installation Needed.

(BangkokPost.com) - Army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd on Thursday afternoon denied that the army was preparing to stage a coup d'état after the widespread coup rumours triggered panic among the public throughout the day. According to the spokesman, the military tanks moved to the First Infantry Division (King's Guards) for the cadets to see, and the vehicles had already returned to the Fourth Cavalry Squadron (King's Guards). The national army chief, Gen Anupong Paojinda, and the army chief of staff, Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, were reportedly travelled to meet the Statesman and Privy Council president, Gen Prem Tinsulanonda, at Si Sao Thewes residence Thursday. Source: Bangkok Post

Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat will declare state of emergency specifically for the Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi International airports to empower police to break the demonstrations, a source said. The prime minister would not use military forces to deal with the protesters but would use police. The source said forces from the Metropolitan Police Bureau would be deployed to crack down on protesters at the Don Mueang airport and police from the Provincial Bureau 1 would be used to deal with protesters at the Suvarnabhumi. Source: The Nation

Suvarnabhumi Airport will remain closed until 6pm of November 29, according to Airports of Thailand Acting President Serirat Prasutanond. Serirat also added that Don Mueang Airport would be shut down until 6pm of Friday, November 28. He said on Thursday that he has sought an injuction for the court's protection of Don Mueang Airport. Source: The Nation

Here is a brief update on the current situation in Thailand. Suvarnabhumi Airport, the country's main airport and one of the major hubs of Asia is closed, because of PAD protesters taking control of the airport. Don Mueang Airport, the old airport is also closed today, after some PAD protesters seized control of the domestic passenger terminal. The prime minister is currently in Chang Mai. Army commander in chief has suggested the parliament should dissolve and call for a new election. PM refused to accept the suggestion. A group of 30 PPP (the government party) MPs asked the PM to fire the Army commander in chief. PAD refuses to back down. Now, everybody is expecting another military coup. And I cancel my trip to Bangkok.

The head of Thailand's powerful army has asked the government to dissolve parliament and call new elections. Gen Anupong Paochinda denied the move amounted to a coup, and also called on anti-government protesters to withdraw from Bangkok's international airport. Members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) took over the airport on Tuesday, after months of protests. It was the PAD's most dramatic move so far after months of calling for the government to resign. It is unclear where Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, who was due to return to Thailand on Wednesday from an Asia-Pacific summit in Peru, now is. However, Gen Anupong said the government was still in control. "This is not a coup," he told a news conference. "The government still has full authority. These points are the way to solve the problem which has plunged the country into a deep crisis," Gen Anupong said. The protesters, who have also been occupying a government compound in t...

Myanmar Space is a new social networking site for Myanmar speaking people all over the world. There is a char room, private messages, photos, video upload, forum, polls as well as ........ Read in Myanmar Social Networking Site - Myanmar Space .

There are very little blog directories that list the Myanmar blogs. However, there are still few Myanmar blog directories with an extensive list of Myanmar blogs. Here are some of them I discovered. The first one is the Myanmar Blog Directory . It is a blogger based blog with alphabetical listing of Myanmar blogs. There are also some useful articles on ....... Read in Myanmar Blog Directory .

The most famous song about Chin Hills and Chin Land, by the same song writer Salai Thaw Na. This song was sung very frequently in Chin Land as well as aired on Myanmar TV quite frequently. This song is also in Burmese. Enjoy.

Here are high resolution Myanmar Maps created my Myanmar blogger Nyi Lynn Seck. He requested some body to make all of them into a .rar file so that people can easily download these maps. These are .................... Read at High Resolution Myanmar Maps .

The above is a music video by Kyo Kyar and Cindy , two Chin singers about Chin Land. The title is " The Home Land of Chin People " and composed by a Chin song writer Salai Thaw Na . The lyric is in Burmese, not in Chin. Please enjoy.

I set up a new wordpress blog at my own server at Bamarlay's Diary . I imported all the posts and the comments from this blog to my Bamarlay's Diary . However, this blog will still be running and I will still be posting new articles here. The new blog, Bamarlay's Diary is still a beta and will be running parallel to the current one. Please check it to see any errors and help me by let me know. You can drop a comment anywhere about my new blog. Thank you very much.

If you are looking for high resolution maps of Myanmar (and the states and divisions of Myanmar), blogger Nyi Lynn Seck has posted the links to the maps on his blog. The first maps released include Kachin State, Kaya State, Kayin (Karen) State, Chin State and Mandalay division. These are high resolution maps of 2048 x 2880 jpeg files downloadable free and usable for non commercial and academic use. EPS version also availabe if request from him personally. You can download these maps here at High Resolution Maps of Myanmar Release (1) .

Many people reached my website by searching Myanmar (Burmese) astrological sites. So I think it would be a valuable to my visitors if I could compile a list of all the websites about Myanmar astrology. Here is a few sites that I have found on the internet. http://mmastrology.myanmarbloggers.org/ http://myanmarastrology.blogspot.com/ http://7spherehere.blogspot.com/ I hope these links will be of interest to my readers.

Yesterday, I stumbled upon another new Myanmar blog with useful and interesting articles. The blog, Myanmar Technology , has a collection of articles on computer and related articles as well as other useful tits and bits, all written in Myanmar. This site is intended for Myanmar people only as it is written entirely in Myanmar. The most useful article here would be the link to downloads of Myanmar Computer Journal, which is a popular computer and IT journal in Myanmar. The downloads of Myanmar Computer Journal is here . There are also links to other e-books written in Myanmar on this site too. If you want to download e-books on Technology written in Myanmar, this site is worth a look.

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across another new interesting Myanmar blog on the internet. Diary of IT Men is a blog of a group of IT professionals from Myanmar. It started just a few months ago but I found a lot of interesting and useful articles on computer, internet and IT technology. The blog is hosted as a sub domain on myanmarbloggers.org . No, don't go and try to find the website for www.myanmarbloggers.org. The website does not exist. But I found a number of subdomains on myanmarbloggers.org. The purpose of the domain name is to overcome the firewall set up by the Myanmar ISPs. If you want to find out more about those blogs hosted on Myanmarbloggers.org, you can make a google search here for myanmarbloggers.org . Alternatively, you can find the list of all the blogs hosted on this domain here at directory.myanmarbloggers.org .

A few months ago, I posted an article on a simple and easy way to insert an image into gmail message. Everybody knows that it is difficult to insert an image into a gmail message directly. Many people found it very useful and I am pleased to be able to help you all. Many people give me some neat, useful and easy ways to insert images and pictures into gmail messages. I will sum up some of them here. 1. The one I mentioned is to compose your message, either simple one or html message, in google doc, then copy and paste the whole message into gmail. 2. If the pciture is on the internet, just right click , select view image, click ctrl-A (to select all, not just the image) and ctrl-C (to copy the html codes). Then go and paste it in gmail. Remember one thing, don't click the image and copy. It won't work. You need all those html codes, not just the image. If your image is not on the internet, then upload it to either flickr or picasa , and do the same thing. 3. You can download a ...

I recently stumbled upon an interesting Myanmar personal blog on the web. The blogger is Myo Kyaw Htun, a Myanmar computer and IT professional from Mandalay. He is currently working as a PHP programmer in Bangkok, Thailand. He set up his personal blog mainly as an IT related blog. I found many interesting and useful articles on his blog and here, I share his blog to all my readers. Mya Kyaw Htun

For those of you who want to read the proposed Myanmar Constitution 2008 by the current Myanmar government, here is the document on scribd. You can see it online or you can download it. It is the official translation and publication. Myanmar Constitution 2008 English version Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Politics Asian 2008 constitution Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008) Printing September, 2008 (10000) Copies Printed by Printing & Publishing Enterprise, Ministry of Information CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Preamble Basic Principles of the Union State Structure Head of State Legislature Executive Judiciary Defence Services Citizen, Fundamental Rights and Duties of the Citizens Election Political Parties Provisions on State of Emergency Amendment of the Constitution State Flag, State Seal, National Anthem and the Capital Transitory Provisions General Provisions ... ... ... ... ... ... P...