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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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Joining the Queen Victoria
I joined the Cunard Queen Victoria yesterday after a very long series of flights from Sacramento. At the airport, I met the ship's youth coordinator, a nice British guy in his 30s named Paul Trotter, ... by robertmpratt
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The Norwegian Medical
I've written before about the excellent and inexpensive medical care at private hospitals in Thailand. My experience at Bangkok's Samitivej Hospital reinforced my overwhelming positive impression of
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No Explanations This Time
Somewhere far above Vietnam, I sit in the tail end of an Airbus A340-400 watching Mamma Mia! on my in-seat entertainment console. I have left behind Thailand, which faces an uncertain future as factio ... by robertmpratt
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Associate Editor Sails Away
My farewell letter to Phuket Post (as submitted):With the current issue of Phuket Post, Associate Editor Robert Pratt departs the newsmagazine after leading it for the past eight months during a perio ... by robertmpratt
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An Early Goodbye to Phuket Post
Despite my dissatisfaction with working at Phuket Post, I have loved working with all of the people there. They have made it fun for me, and I’m glad to have had a chance to get to know them. I
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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 (see "Who Is This Guy?" above). Based in Santa Cruz, Calif., U.S.A. from June 1989 to April 2007, he now lives and works in 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! Read more...
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