Thursday, December 30, 2010

Life in Lille-Part10

I was a bad boy when I stayed in Lille.

One night after came back from Brussels, I took a night train from the Gare de Lille. At the time, I entered the station without buying the ticket because I did several times as other Lillois.

The jackpot had hit to me. When I was approaching the second-to-last targeted station, the officials flew into the train to check the train ticket. Of course, I was a pirate, no ticket in my pocket.

When one official walked to me, and said 'Please show your ticket please'. I pretended to rummage into my pockets and purse and replied him back I lost it somewhere.

He didn't believe it and invited me to go outside the train. The negotiation and drama started.

I tried to pretend once more that I actually had it but lost. I showed all used tickets I had but no better impact.

He eventually decided to offer the highest fine rate to me. But I asked him about another rate which was lower around 10-15 euro.

We talked rather long and ended with paying fine in the moderate severity, not highest. Maybe he had little mercy when he saw my used tickets that indicated I did not do like this very often.

Anyway, thanks to him and this experience, I was sad. On the other hand, that taught me, you had to be a good man in every place where you are. Otherwise, counter bad effect will destroy and attack you.

Will never do it.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Life in Lille-Part9

I daresay I may be only one Thai who knows best about Lille. I discovered the city all routes and alleys. I visited all big and small places. I joined the sacred ceremony. I was a host when my Thai friends visited my city, Lille.

I was very proud of being this city citizen. Even it's small, peace and nature are its charm. Cathedral, churches, museums, gallery, banks, supermarkets, mini-marts, cafe, hotels. schools, OFI office are the examples where I attended.

When my friends saw Lille, they said this city is very cute and people here are very friendly. While we were taking a photo together, strange girls came to join us to have a nice photo. No border of nation, here.

What I missed is Opera. In the future, I would like to visit this city and enter Opera to appreciate heaven melody. See you Lille ^^

Business ThinkTank No.15- Self-prepared bento

This bento is allowing users to design their meals by themselves through smart web application. Customers have to register to the system and in turn are able to arrange their breakfast/lunch.

Again, customers are required to be local users near the pick-up stand. This business offers the new experience of food as well as enjoyment of virtual cooking.

Business ThinkTank No.14- Air plane business model to other business platforms

When we book the air tickets more beforehand, the large amount of discount will offer to us happily. In short, the more advanced you reserve a seat, the more you obtain percent discount.

Hence, if we apply this idea to other business, it may works most prospectively.

Like, I sell musical instrument but would not like to keep the stocks if there is no order. Well, I will develop the website where customers can place their order. If they order a product in advance for 2 weeks. 20% discount is benefit. Less attractive, if they order the same product but time to receive the product is nearer, less discount is offered.

Customers have to pick up their orders at the shop by themselves. In this respect, the business is focusing on local customers, reducing inventory/delivery cost, even less profit margin but worth to experimenting.

Business ThinkTank No.13-Brand Management for Fruit Wagan

Normally we see many fruit wagons around the city of Bangkok. Most of them are selling fruits that I think they're not clean and best. That means the opportunity is there.

I would like to promote the brand over this business by stressing quality and cleanliness. And change look of this business by offering some member cards or recycle container for frequent buyers. As such, customers can get the discount percentage and at the same time environment has been preserved by reducing to use plastic containers/bags.

Brand management can also apply to other businesses. Just open your eyes, look around and make little consideration. We'll find opportunity is abundant.

Business ThinkTank No.12-The self-weighed luggage

Always, international students or long-stayed persons face up a problem when they are going back to their country. That problem is luggage's weight.

To solve that circumstance, they simply buy a new weight scale so that they can make sure that weight doesn't excess allowed weight capacity. They use it one time and leave it. That weight scale costs them some amount, around 200-300 baht.

So, if we can invent some device that implement into luggage, that would be a good idea. They do not need to worry about their luggage's weight anymore, both departure and arrival.

Nevertheless, so far I have no idea such that equipment, just some characteristics that should be featured. For instance, light-weight, durability, easy-to-read.

This is most prospective business that I am seeking out the answer.

Business ThinkTank No.11-Vendor Machine Shop

As I stayed in Japan for 5 months, I could see many vendor machines standing at various places and the products sold are ranging from water to umbrella.

In Thailand, even though doing this sort of business may pose some risks to entrepreneurs, if good management and prevention are put in place. I believe there is a big gap of profit waiting for someone to bait the grand success in this regard.

To me, I may find a dedicated shop to put diverse vendor machines. Customers may feel free to buy things from machines rather that directly from seller in some cases.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

My past artworks

I summarize the links directing to my artworks in purpose of job application that demonstrate as below:

Artwork Suite#1

Artwork Suite#2

Artwork Suite#3

Onishi Website

Addition to artworks, let me propose one more link,

Testimonials

:)

Thank you for your attention.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

SEO in Joomla

To enable SEO function in Joomla, we must do the following matters.

1. Activate mod_rewrite function of Apache by the follows
1.1 Go to xampp\apache\conf (I use xampp package which includes Apache), and open file, httpd
1.2 Find the line #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
1.3 delete # in this line to turn on mod_rewrite function
1.4 save the file
2. In Joomla Admin Backend, select Global Configuration and then look for SEO settings
2.1 for Search Engine Friendly URLs: choose 'Yes'
2.2 for
Use Apache mod_rewrite: choose 'Yes'
2.2 for Add suffix to URLs: choose 'No'
3. create .htaccess in Joomla directory
3.1 In Joomla directory, open htaccess.txt and replace texts with

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# RewriteBase /
########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section

3.2 Save as and set
File name: .htaccess
Save as type: all types

Now URLs showing will be like,
www.testjoomlaSEO.com/about-us/
instead of www.testjoomlaSEO.com/index.php/about-us

4. remove tag Meta name="generator"
The file you want to edit is called head.php and is found here:
/libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php

Comment out the following code by inserting "//" in front of it (~line 167):
//$strHtml .= $tab.'generator" content="'.$document->getGenerator().'" />'.$lnEnd;

source: http://www.cocut.cn/tips/48-tips-and-tricks/3282-generator-joomla.html