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Not sure why exactly but we stayed in Bangkok until Wendy came back. We had wanted to go to the coast but with the weather being so terrible we didn’t want to risk it. And with Matt keen to get on with www.stolencamerafinder.com we pottered about doing not much at all except that. Wednesday night we tried a kooky restaurant called Cabbages & Condoms in Sukhumvit. It’s a restaurant that gives some of its profits to HIV/AIDS charities....

Sunday we checked out of Sunflower Place and into Siam Heritage kindly paid for by W & S for our joint birthday pressies. What a place. So swanky. I’m going to sound like a complete child now but it had proper porters take our luggage to the room on one of those brass wheelie things. The bed is huge! The desk has one of those green lamps on it. There are satin dressing gowns and slippers....

We’re off to meet up with Wend & Steve in Bangkok. Given ourselves a day to get over the border so we get there in time! Haha of the day: Matt tried to give some not quite so poor woman some money whilst she was just sat waiting for the bus. Much embarrassment. The Poipet border crossing was quite painless. 20 mins queued up on Cambodia side to get our departure stamp followed by 30mins on the Thai border to be let in....

Yes I was right. Hangovers from hell. I think we went to sleep about 5am and were up and out in the midday sun packed and waiting for a bus to Battambang. Not pretty. Luckily the bus journey to Battambang was a bearable 3.5 hours. And trusting a tuk-tuk driver (Mr Bat from Battambang) at the bus stop paid off. The first hotel was full (an LP recommendation) so ended up at its sister hotel Asia Hotel a bit further away but one of the best places we’ve stayed in for comfort and cleanliness and wifi and a steal at $8 a night....

After 2 days of temples we are all templed-out. We decide to spend the day doing not much. So I decide to treat myself to a haircut. My first haircut in 7 months. I drop by the local hairdressers. Not the one just outside Palm Garden Lodge (there were no customers and since going back in April it has turned into AB Bar with a red strip light and pretty ladyboys so probably wasn’t doing such a good job as a hair salon – this has no reflection on Palm Garden Lodge) but the one just down the road towards town....

5am start to Angkor Wat for sunrise. At that time of the morning Siem Reap is already humming with the sound of tuk-tuks, mopeds and bicycles all heading in one direction. Making our way along the promenade we were stopped by ticket inspectors with torches before proceeding to join the hoards around the lake at the front of Angkor Wat. We managed to get a good seat on one of the small temples next to the lake and Matt set up his 7D for a timelapse that turned into a time lacks....

We arrived early on Sunday morning being dropped off in a derelict backstreet yard. It was still dark so we could have been in Timbuktu for all we knew. Luckily our guys at Palm Garden Lodge were awake and sent Mr. Long to meet us in his tuk tuk. 20 mins later we were snoozing in a lovely comfy room and 3 hours later we were eating noodle soup for breakfast....

Hmm, you want to add the “lastmod” node, but you’re too lazy to ever keep that up to date so you decide to update it with your Ant script whenever you deploy. Easy. So you’ve just written a valid sitemap.xml file for your website because Google said it was a good idea. Great. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <url> <loc>http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/</loc> <lastmod>2011-04-21</lastmod> <changefreq>weekly</changefreq> </url> </urlset> First, you’ll need the jar for a third-party Ant task called XMLTask....

Here’s a bit of info for you crazy HTML5 kids. You’ll need to include the handy Modernizr script for it to work. var browserIsSupported = !!window.FileReader && Modernizr.draganddrop;

Just look at the filename of your profile picture. The uid is in the middle. 186939_565140267_839650_n.jpg Er… That’s it. Bye.