A few months ago, I moved all my Thailand-related blog posts to a new website: Thailand Starter Kit. Since creating that website, I received a number of commercial inquiries from people looking to buy exposure on it. Main reason is the website's prominence in search engines. My article on health insurance in Thailand alone receives close to 3,000 visitors from Google every month, resulting in between 50 and 100 requests for additional information by e-mail. Insurance companies pay commissions … [Read more...]
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"Earth-spast," R'osh muttered as he watched the wriggling figure on the ground. Cut off from its synthetic augmentations, the body on the floor spasmed, suggesting more of a struggle than was really left in it. It was those death throes that had given the slur its rise to prominence. Earth had gotten quite advanced in modifying what was a rather flawed concept to begin with: the human body. In fact, the bodies of Earth's citizens were probably way beyond what R'osh and his kind could handle … [Read more...]
Here’s Why You Can Stop Feeling Bad for Playing Video Games
You know what leading thinkers at Google, Glassdoor and US presidential campaigns have in common? They are die-hard gamers. Not just play-GTA-V-for-an-entire-weekend gamers, but invest-years-of-their-lives-into-their-World-of-Warcraft-guild gamers. The real deal. While their peers ramped up college credits in high school, polished their resume by volunteering in senior citizen homes and suffered through parent-pleasing piano-lessons, these guys went all-in on Mountain Dew-fueled, … [Read more...]
You Should Not Be Here
I wake up. The mattress below me feels too soft in a familiar way. I hear the noise of a passing car, muted through a closed window. Opening my eyes, I find myself in a small room. It's night. The faint light casting through the window reveals enough for me to recognize my surroundings. This is odd. Slowly I sit up and swing my legs over the side of the overly soft mattress. My small feet, free of socks, touch the memorably soft carpet. It's the softness of a fluffy carpet after being used to … [Read more...]
Camels, Kalashnikovs and New Year’s Resolutions
Things on karstenaichholz.com have been a bit quiet the last few weeks. One major reason for this has been my work over at traveloak.com, where I publish my travel writing. The site was due for a technical, design and editorial overhaul. The former two are pretty much done, and looking at what's online there now, I'm quite happy with the outcome. On the editorial side, some recent highlights published there include a trip narrative of a journey to Ladakh in India, an in-depth guide to … [Read more...]
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