Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭

@patrickv
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Born & raised in #Belgium 🇧🇪, retired from long career in software #development and software #architecture. 
Worked all over the world, migrated to #Thailand 🇹🇭 with wife & dog in 2020, living happily in Khon Kaen, a city in the #Isan region in the east of Thailand.
Spending my time riding my Honda XL750 Transalp through this beautiful country, keeping my coding skills up to date, following tech news, and writing about what I see, hear and experience in Thailand.
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Nov 26, 2024
Planning a little trip on the Honda XL750 #transalp with 3 friends.
5 days, 1365km, lots of very curvy roads.
d1: Khon Kaen to Phrae 466km
d2: Phrae to Pua 188km
d3: Pua to Ban Khok through Doi Phu Kha National Park (max altitude 1700m) 275km
d4: Ban Khok to Loei 219km
d5: Loei to Khon Kaen 207km
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Aug 13, 2024
Refreshing to see there’s still civil servants that are eager to provide real civil service. Kudos to the helpdesk person at @FODFinancien who helped to finally get my (weeks overdue) tax return paid back to me, but also identified & fixed what was blocking its payment. 5 Stars.
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jun 12, 2024

Apple rebranded AI to mean Apple Intelligence.

Prediction: starting now, the words “artificial intelligence” will never ever appear again in any written or spoken text from Apple. Even the abbreviation “AI” will always mean Apple Intelligence.

Hate it, but you gotta hand it to them: they’re really good at that kind of usurping.

Must be nice if you can live in your own self-made world, where every word has its own different and special meaning than it does to anyone else outside that bubble.

Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭May 7, 2024
Well, it had to happen one day, didn’t it? Four years after the rest of the world, I’ve finally joined the club…
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 9, 2024
I just saw someone letting their dog lick them all over their face and even - god forbid - in their mouth.
Don’t they know that dogs can (and do) reach certain places with their tongue that no human can? 😀
I love both my doggies like they were my children, and a friendly lick on hands or even chin now and then can’t be avoided and that’s fine, but the thought alone of them licking in my mouth makes me want to🤮
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 8, 2024
The Thai press never ceases to surprise me… #thailand
Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 7, 2024

More out of curiosity than anything else, I decided (perhaps foolishly) to join Threads today.

These were the first 3 posts I saw on the top of my very first view of the Threads timeline.

Mankind is doomed...

Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 4, 2024
Up to a few minutes ago, I was enjoying a beautiful cool and sunny morning here in Khon Kaen.
Then I saw a tweet that had Modern Talking's "Cheri Cheri Lady" as background music, and now that's stuck in my head. FML.
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Patrick V. 🇧🇪🇹🇭Jan 2, 2024
Being a Belgian living in Thailand, I asked ChatGPT to create a few pictures combining some famous cultural items from both countries (with some more hints on the subjects, of course). I was pleasantly surprised with the results
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