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Over the past 10 years, Word and Sound has been many things. Most of the time it's been an online playground for Robert Pratt, a journalist, web application programmer and professional musician based in Santa Cruz, Calif., U.S.A. for 18 years beginning in the mid-1989. Home base as of March 2008 is Muang, Phuket in Thailand. At present, this website is in the process of being redeployed using a new content management system (CMS). For those of you interested in such things, the new CMS is Joomla! The slick interface is a pre-baked design that I downloaded from Rocket Theme, which is a group that designs and implements interfaces for Joomla! Soon to come on Word and Sound is a new blog (of course, with archives of previous blog entries). I decided to switch to Joomla! over MoveableType, the previous CMS, so that I could do more with the thousands of pictures I have collected during my travels the past year. I have other features in mind, too, including a section on the many amazing Thai foods that my boyfriend, Chaiyakorn "Duk" Pinprapaipong, cooks up in his "magic pot," a rice cooker.
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Robert Pratt
Robert Pratt lives and works as a journalist in Phuket, Thailand. He's also a professional musician (retired at the moment), a web developer (again, retired) and a private pilot (ditto). Things that he has considered as a profession or hobby by not yet tried include novelist, nudist, Buddhist monk and English teacher.
Chaiyakorn Pinprapaipong
Chaiyakorn "Duk" Pinprapaipong lives in Phuket. Trained in Thai massage at Wat Po, Duk aspires to open his own massage studio. For now, he's looking for work in the hospitality industry. He's schooled in many other traditional Thai arts besides massage, including fruit carving, flower making and Thai-style drawing.
