Invoice Lottery!

ByObblogatory August 23, 2024

I sometimes win a few hundred dollars doing this. It’s Taiwan’s ‘free’ lottery! Did you check your numbers?
eTax Portal,Ministry of Finance (nat.gov.tw)

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6.4 earthquake and I didn’t feel a thing

ByObblogatory March 4, 2010

Apparently, there was an earthquake this morning, a 6.4. The first I knew about it was the lunchtime news,… Neither Christine nor I felt a thing. But there has been some damage, and some casualties, though non fatal. Here’s the news bulletin. Did you feel the quake? Or not?

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Secret to my bread: 1918

ByObblogatory July 4, 2024

It’s hard to get stoneground flour in Taiwan, at least in the bigger shops. I found this. Damn it makes good bread, that plus I’ve been adding a lot more water. The result is that it makes really soft sandwich bread, which is great for our purposes. For 400g of flour, my recipe used to…

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LCD TVs: it’s all lingo and wattages

ByObblogatory June 29, 2009

They’re hot, they’re getting cheaper and more powerful. The picture tubes are excellent. What am I talking about? That’s right. The LCD TV. We’ve been looking for quite a while for a replacement for our CRT 29″ Philips TV. But the unit is so reliable, and so fuss-free that it hardly seems worthwhile to throw…

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Photos of North East Coast: Giant Beehives and Sunsets

ByObblogatory June 13, 2010

Interesting naturalistic type ‘beehive’ houses. These have just been finished, but since it’s private property, we daren’t go and take a look. Photo by Christine.

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Paper doesn’t seem to go out of fashion, does it?

ByObblogatory May 22, 2013

I notice a lot of people looking for Web To Print Solutions for their digital products. Whether you’re doing apps or websites or ebooks, there is a lot of demand for web to print solutions, whether it’s Printing on Demand, printing hard copies for your ebook, etc.. It seems that tree-based output is here to…

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Longshan Temple. The Mural

ByObblogatory June 2, 2024

Timothy Fox This is the image we took in Longshan Temple. The Mural. Lots of light reflections. So it’s quite a tricky one to edit without Photoshop. Share

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