
Everyone’s a pundit, but ‘Buddhist Adjunkt’ sums it up better than most with an on-the-spot running commentary: “Cambodia As Pawn: The Dream for Darfur Ceremony“.
You may not agree with every opinion the writer has, but I’m impressed by the ‘you are here’ quality of the writing.
Tags: cambodia,darfur
Posted in khmer rouge, news, weblogs | 1 Comment »

Exhibition “Drawing Room”
Opening- 6pm, 1 February 2008, Rubies Wine Bar
Corner of Streets 19 and 240, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Artists: Panca Evenblij, Sopheap Pich, Piteak, Ali Sanderson,
Kong Vollak and John Weeks.
Drawings may be representational, depicting objects, living beings, or scenes which the artist views, remembers, or imagines. They may be realistic to the point of lifelike resemblance (e.g. traditional portraits), architectural drawing or looser approximations of reality (e.g. sketches), and highly stylized (e.g. cartoons, caricatures), or abstract (e.g. automatic drawing, entoptic graphomania)……
…..and that’s what the show is.
For more info please email pancaevenblij [via] gmail [dot] com
[From What's On] Tags: cambodia,exhibition,exposition,comics
Posted in comics, stuff, visual art | 1 Comment »
For some reason, numerous businesses in Cambodia seem to think that it’s OK to send out random emails to as wide a mailing list as possible. This is generically termed spam. I’m thinking of starting a list of spammers, for submission to local Chambers of Commerce. The only problem is it would mean archiving each message as proof, another time-waster.
Then there’s something even more confusing: viral marketing.

I’m sorry Parith, but I don’t know you.

Same goes for you, Monirath. I have enough real friends as it is.
Want to be my internet friend? Fill out an application.
http://jinja.apsara.org/friends/question_form.php
And for something completely different: robotic content theft.
Splogs are ‘Spam Weblogs’ that steal content via RSS feeds to improve their search rankings for Google ads. Below are splogs using small bits of my content without authorization. Is someone using yours?
http://beautybesttips.org/news/apsara-org/
http://aiuta2004.org/directory/jinja-apsara/
http://easybookreviews.com/index.php?s=Jinja (even attempts to copyright the text!)
Tags: cambodia,spam,viral marketing,business,social media
Posted in information technology, news, stuff | 3 Comments »

A Western-style fast food restaurant caves in, and offers a new crowd-pleaser that had previously been lacking on the menu.
It’s almost unthinkable to have a meal without rice in Cambodia. The name for ‘kitchen’ is literally ‘rice house’.
Hmm… maybe I could start a franchise…
Tags: cambodia,rice,cuisine,food
Posted in food, more stuff | 2 Comments »