With the relative success of my primary coffee site, I’m looking at ways of developing both traffic and income. I’ve taken a look at both affiliate programs and hard goods such as promotional items. It’s difficult to know what will work well, esp. as my site isn’t particularly proximate to the market I’m trying to…
Teachers to strike in Taiwan? Will they actually do it? Teachers traditionally and legally haven’t been able to go on strike. I honestly don’t know why… so this is a revolutionary change. Legally, they should have that right as other workers do. Otherwise… Teachers at British Council Taiwan to take strike vote next week –…
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….
True story time: Last year, my wife took some carpentry classes at the local community school in Tamsui. She worked hard, and made quite a few great objects, including a chair, small table, spice rack, a stool, etc. Anyway, I have a friend who really likes to exercise on treadmills, esp. the one he has…
I got started by accident blogging a few years when I discovered that my host was offering WordPress. I then started InvestorBlogger as a way to express myself. I had particularly wanted to focus on exploring the connection between investing, blogging and life. I guess I have somewhat achieved this. I discovered “a certain paid…
We went to a local coffeeshop for coffee and a cake! Seemed like a good idea at the time. Pity! One glass of water, one menu and one hour later, we were still waiting. And we felt like we got blamed but it’s … not our fault there was a rush of customers, not our…