I went up to Bangkok on the ‘sprinter’ train (two air-conditioned carriages, express service etc) on Tuesday, leaving at 2:15pm arriving at around 8:30pm. I caught a taxi to Loong Pon’s flat and took a few beers round. Loong Wit was working on the computer, and it turns out he’s working through a book learning PHP. I spent a few hours trying to help him understand stuff, but I have difficulty explaining things in English, so I doubt my Thai explanations were much help!

In the morning, I caught a taxi to the Embassy at about 8:30am, was finished by about 9:30am and caught the 10:30am bus back home, arriving at about 4pm. About 26hrs round trip. Not bad. Passport will be sent EMS (special delivery), and on receipt I will have to go straight to the nearest immigration office to a reprint of my visa (which will show me as being overstayed!). Hopefully, they’ll be understanding :)

I knocked up a new homepage for mail.gnome.org, stealing the FAQ from the GTK+ site (based on a URL Owen posted). I just need to find a few moments to steal the stylesheets and masthead etc from the main gnome.org site to make it look a bit prettier, then I’ll commit it. I also need to bring up the question of ‘is using a seperate CVSROOT for websites (e.g. /cvs/websites instead of /cvs/gnome a good idea?) and if so, how do we go about breaking the existing web modules down and moving them to the new repository? Will we need seperate commits lists and bonsai/LXR/viewcvs configurations for the new repository? It’s a can of worms, but one that probably ought to be opened.