This is one of my mobile phone pictures that I uploaded to Flickr. I took this on a Sunday one hot and sunny late summer day in a place near Tamsui that we like to visit. I’m posting this here because I’m surprised at the quality of the picture that I took. I never used…
Wow! I was using my wife’s laptop again this week for crunching numbers and writing lesson plans. It is excruciatingly slow at times as it gets bogged down doing the simplest things. We bought her the IBM Thinkpad Series R51 Pentium M 1.3Ghz model about 4 years ago. But we only got 256mb memory, with…
As we tidied up yesterday, I had an attempt at stripping parts from a PC that was no longer required. In fact, it had been in service for over 7 years, and was now approaching the EOL. I stripped out the CD rom, which was seldom used, the hard-disk to get at the contents, and…
Cleaning our equipment like A/Cs has me thinking that perhaps we need to be cleaning our bodies more thoroughly, so I started to make a list of body parts that I might clean: the teeth (of course!) – I haven’t done one of those in while; the mouth (… I’ve seen the Japanese do strange…
Traveling around the island on Provincial Route 2 takes you from Tamsui all the way around to Gongliao Township, then to Ilan. We’ve often driven the stretch from Tamsui to Jingshan or Keelung. Today we covered the stretch from Keelung to just south of Gongliao on the far center right… (more)
I just want to share this video with you about a great little mini-notebook. I am considering buying it… It’s available for about US$500 which is a little over NT$15000…