Monthly Archives: March 2012

The book is dead–long live the book!

Few people have not noticed the diminishing number of bookstores. We’ve had several in Tamsui close in the past two years, and many others have much ‘slimmer’ collections of books… it seems that bookstores as we grew up with them are about to go the way of the dinosaurs, CD stores, and other esoteric products. Most of this… Read More »

The Leaping Lady

P1040582, originally uploaded by TaipeiCityGuide.com. I thought I’d share this picture from a wonderful vacation we had! She looks like she’s about to take off!

Windows 7 Sound Recording Tip

Here’s a tip for Windows 7 users who have trouble using recording functions, because they have an error: "Error while opening sound device. Check input device settings and project sample rate" when using a program like Audacity. The issue is probably the common behaviour in Windows Vista and 7 that recording inputs are not always enabled in the… Read More »