Apr
29
Photo: Reflecting yourselves
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This is a picture post from a Sunday afternoon trip to Tamsui and Sanchih!
And that’s it for Sunday’s Picture Post. Albeit one day late!
Apr
20
Greenday: Boulevard of Broken Dreams
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Apr
14
Notebooks vs. desktops: Why notebooks are becoming the no. 1 choice!
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Portable computing is currently all the rage and now notebooks are beginning to outsell desktops. On Saturday, I was reminded why.
In school I had to sort out the schools pcs properly, and the amount of wiring that I had to plug, unplug, untangle, retangle… was just incredible. Wires for power sockets (still not enough), wires [...]
Apr
12
Michael Johns: Out … and that’s because…?
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Well, I’ve been following the performers on American Idol this past few weeks. One of my favorites is Michael Johns… But he was eliminated in the last episode. To my sheer surprise!
It seems he was eliminated for no particularly good reason that I can see except to save someone else who needed the votes more.
His [...]
Apr
7
What are you sitting on right now? Come on, tell me? Well this is one of my favorite chairs, but that is because of its proximity to other ‘items’…
I have this cheapish chair in SOHO from Ikea that’s got one loose arm and is getting a little uncomfortable. I have sat on worse, [...]
Apr
5
It’s a sad event when a person jumps from a tall building like ours. Last Sunday we were just heading out when an older lady decided to do just that. We don’t know much of the facts other than she succeeded in ending her life. Unfortunately it also created quite a spectacle outside on the [...]
Apr
4
The Taiwan Haze: How to spoil good photographs?
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I have taken thousands of photos over the years, with many in Taiwan. But one of the perennial features of winters, springs and autumns is the haze that causes light to diffuse and overexposes the sky views of many photographs. A good example is the one above. Even Michael from Taichung commented on this phenomenon. [...]