Help with my I-Pad2 with WIFI + 3G

Dear Editor;

I have just bought an I-Pad2 with WIFI +3G and was told there was a manual for this. There is nothing, yet, for this new model 2, and nothing in English.

Can someone help me please to set it up, download all the right programs and get me started. I have tried and tried but cannot get any of the main applications to work, through my own inadequacy. I have downloaded the I-Pad2 manual in English but have not printed the 170 pages, but just kept referencing it with my I-Pad in front of my computer...but after more than a week, still nothing achieved.

So, please, please, please can any of your readers spare me some time and help me to get it loaded and working properly? If you have the time and experience to help a 72 year-old Englishman out of trouble, please ring me: Derek: 081.838.8163 (email: [email protected]) I would be SO Grateful.

Best regards

Derek

Protest sympathy?

Dear Ed,

I find it difficult to find sympathy for those who died in the political protests a year ago this month. No one deserves to die for their political beliefs, but no one has the right to destroy other people’s property, threaten lives and livelihoods, and hold honest, law abiding citizens hostage for as long as they did.

I’m all for peaceful, non threatening protests. But putting up barricades in the center of Bangkok, setting fire to tires, threatening to blow up a petrol truck, threatening violence to anyone who dare suggest they shouldn’t be there, as well as violently attack government officials’ homes and cars is not right.

Closer to home, lest we forget the breaking and entering of the PEACH at Royal Cliff, smashing windows to gain entrance, forcing visiting dignitaries from other countries to be airlifted out whilst fearing for their lives, and even attacking the prime minister’s motorcade on the corner of 3rd Road and South Pattaya Road. I could imagine what would have happened to the attackers if they had attacked Prime Minister Cameron’s motorcade, or President Obama’s motorcade. They would have been shot dead on site.

One might argue that the violence only came from a portion of the protesters, and that perhaps those shot and killed might not have been part of the violence. To that I say, if I was at a political protest and some rogue idiots started setting fires, breaking things and injuring people, I would take that as a sign to get out of there and go home. Anyone who stays, inadvertently or not, implicitly agrees with the violent tactics. I could almost guarantee that before the shootings, everyone in the protest camp was caught up in the mob mentality, rooting on the violent minority. Of course, no one would admit to it. That would ruin their chances of getting money from the government; the same government they were protesting against. Many even said they’d be willing to die for the cause. And when they actually do die for the cause, suddenly the survivors cry “foul!”

Before anyone reading this thinks I am a yellow shirt protesting the red shirts, I feel the same way about the yellow shirts who took the airport hostage the year before. True democracy is not holding people hostage until they agree to your demands, just because you lost an election.

So, yeah, it’s a sad thing that people had to die in order to stop the mayhem. But don’t blame the government, military or law enforcement, blame the protest leaders, who were either there or directing in abstensia, for allowing the wanton destruction to continue for so long, forcing law enforcement to take drastic measures to return the country to normalcy.

My main hope now is that the upcoming elections don’t throw us back into that same dark period in Thai history.

And please! No more Purachai Piumsomboon, Mr Anti-Sanook, responsible for, among other things, no alcohol sales in the stores from 2 - 5 p.m.!

Mickey Manton

Splish, Splash, Splush

Editor;

Going in one year and out the other, Songkran represents a chance to begin again by vowing yet another chance to get it right (or at least less wrong). Resolving to live life fully and well, to look, to listen, to laugh, to love, to learn what to do, how and why - jumpstarting good old bad bah-humbug habits, igniting a rusty, stalled engine; revving up internal combustion motor, refueling an almost empty tank, then shifting fast-forward into high gear. Drive safely and soberly, nuh.

Chanchai Prasertson
Bangkok

Help with my I-Pad2 with WIFI + 3G

Protest sympathy?

Splish, Splash, Splush