Silom darkness closing in, speck of light from the BBC

No food pictures today, but images (through the bird netting) of the early evening view from our place instead.

Boyfriend Maiyuu took these shots of the Silom skyline last night as the skies were closing in and rain approached.

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Thai-based blogger Western Observer has a post up for foreigners wondering how to watch BBC TV channels in Thailand. He rents space on a UK-based VPN hosting provider, which allows him to watch BBC programmes via its iPlayer service.

The BBC normally bars people outside the country from watching its shows on the internet.

However, if you rent space on a UK-based VPN hosting provider, you can log in to your account and gain access to iPlayer via the server instead.

I tried getting access to iPlayer at the BBC's website yesterday using an ordinary proxy server, which didn't work. It knew I was trying to get access to the programmes from outside the country, and told me to go away.

You can read Western Observer's post here (link harvested - it died).

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Martin Scorsese's The Departed gave me bad dreams last night. I didn't start to get decent sleep until about 5am. I stopped watching soon after Jack Nicholson's character, Frank Costello, gets shot. That unpleasant scene by the dumpster haunted me all night.

The only character I enjoyed in that film was the comically foul-mouthed Sean Dignam, played by Mark Wahlberg. I could have done with more of him, and much less of the blood and guts. I could also have done with a better night's sleep.