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Works, why it sucks now, and why M$ is making it worse not better…

ByObblogatory March 7, 2006

In reply to a posting on Forumosa.com It just confuses me. XP Home and Office, XP Pro 😛 I wonder what the real strategy behind it is (I know the must be one.) I don’t like to admit it, but I probably won’t get MS Money just because it’s a Microsoft product. I’m trying to…

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PageRank: updating again – Yawn!

ByObblogatory August 26, 2008

Seems Google is doing the big dance again with its pagerank. One of my blogs has seemingly gone from PR2 to PR0. And yes, I do sell links. No really I do. I have done for ages, through Text Link Ads, through my own sales, through “a certain paid blogging company”. I sell them simply…

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Time for Change: prison time for crimes against the world

ByObblogatory April 25, 2024

… and the ones who start wars will be given serious prison time for crimes against the world. Irony of irony: I think only violence or its threat would make it possible. Might make everyone nervous about even pointing a finger, much less a gun or missile or bomb. The people of the world should…

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Buzz: Taoyuen Nights Brings Daylight to Taiwan’s Murky Economy

ByObblogatory October 24, 2008

It’s great to find a blog about Taiwan that is interested in some of the things I am about Taiwan life. Today I’m recommending Taoyuan Nights which includes lots of great posts on a wide range of topics: Finance, Taiwan, UK, etc. I enjoyed his skeptical treatment of the local real estate market which I…

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I honestly think Auto isn’t great!

ByObblogatory June 11, 2024

So apparently, and not uncommonly, I shot this image at ISO1600 in broad daylight, albeit there was some cloud cover and I was in the botanical gardens. But 1/400 at ISO1600? Who shoots like that? I’m sure if I’d set it 1/200 and ISO400, I’d have got something quite useable and noticeably less grainy! Or…

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Fake Urgency Never Compelling

ByObblogatory September 17, 2023

I see these ‘urgent’ ads all the time. I wonder what ‘urgent’ really means when it’s not priced appropriately and it’s supposedly urgent. Can’t be THAT urgent.

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