iPad Air 2

Along with the experience of many others, I have realised for a long time that the battery in my iPad Air 2 was a bit dodgy. I did a bit of research and then went down to the local IT floor in the Market Village in Hua Hin to find someone who could replace the battery. That was easy!

He told me it would take an hour ... then he saw the thing and spotted a cracked screen border and told me he would replace that, too: It bumped up the price a lot but still nowhere near the cost of replacing the entire iPad!

That took three hours and I have had a chance to test it now and the battery is 100% charged for the first time and all seems well.

I just checked and this model of the iPad Air came out late in 2014. Crikey! I cannot remember when I bought it but ten years ago seems like a long time!

Here it is:

DW

11th May 2024

Hot Wired Thailand

You probably know the phrase to be wired, hard wired, hot wired. You’ve also heard of Thailand, no doubt.

OK, put the two ideas together and you end up with wiring systems like this: photographed about an hour ago in Hua Hin, Thailand

If you've been to Thailand or you live in Thailand, you've seen this kind of thing everywhere.

Who knew there were so many wires in the world!!

DW

10/5/2024

Pran Buri Dam

We have just spent a bit of time exploring the Pran Buri Dam: it’s big! We drove past this dam last year but didn’t get down to it then: we were on our way to a sheep farm in the wilderness!

Anyway, there was a high quality dirt track going round the lake so we followed that for a few kilometres and you cannot imagine our surprise when we came across a local village shop, selling the usual village things. The surprise centered around there being no village! There were maybe four or five buildings in the entire few kilometres we drove down!

Immediately after the shop there was a smaller track going down to the lakeshore so we followed that, parked the car and took a look around. There’s horticulture going on down there and some form of aquaculture although I don’t know what.

The dam wall is very long at at least a kilometre and we drove across there,

The area below the dam was full of farms and plantations. It looks like everyone in the area benefits from the water and fertile soil.

DW

5th May 2024