Well, that was a bit of a blur.
Five years ago today, I packed the unsold remains of my life into a suitcase, carefully rolling my trusty Mac Mini up in a beach towel, looked back one last time at the little Victorian two-up two-down mid-terrace that had been home, took a deep breath, then headed to Heathrow airport where I took a one-way flight to Bangkok, Thailand.
There is a UNIX tool called pv. It’s pretty cool.
You can install it on OSX via HomeBrew, which is pretty cool itself.
What is not so cool is that the Apple-supplied version of du does not support the -b flag, being BSD-esque rather than GNUful. Which is a rant for another day. This means that the standard example of how to use pv to give a progress bar for the tarring up of a large directory under UNIX doesn’t work under OSX.
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Tucked away over in Rayong province, a little way short of Rayong Town, lies a small town called Laem Mae Phim. A very small town, in fact. It’s more like a road.
On one side of the road – the beach with its overhanging restaurants and bars. On the other side – the hotels and a handful of shops. And for a weekend trip, I didn’t need anything more.
Eventually, I will run out of things to say about Cambodia, or at least its capital. By my reckoning, these were my fifth and sixth trips to Phnom Penh, three months apart.
After a little over two weeks in the USA, it was time to head East to Europe – to Ireland, and the UK.
