What are you doing to lose weight? I know that I have been trying hard, but until I get active on the starter stage, I won’t be making any progress at all. I recently came across another type of workout that looked interesting. Having been a workout fan, a former member of a health club,…
With the recent changes to my blog here, I finally figured out how to get zero spam. The recipe is quite simple: 1. Close posts from comments from more than a few weeks ago. Close them all. Nothing to spam. See "Settings" and "Discussion" 2. Set both "Comment author must fill out name and e-mail"…
With H1N1 sweeping the schools here, many students are having to take time off soon as classes are cancelled and parents can’t go to work. What would be better than taking a long weekend? Well, if your kid’s class is cancelled at school for the following week, you could simply benefit from a few extra…
I’ve been exploring the reasons I like where we live in Taiwan more than other places. There are still a whole bunch of reasons, and today I’ll add three more! 6. Tamsui is cooler than Taipei in summer and in fall. It doesn’t sound like much but a couple of degrees and a breeze really…
In the early part of my life, I lived in over 25 different locations, almost one a year on average. So living here for 10 years in the same place is quite a challenge to my restless spirit. The good news is that the area we live in has grown up nicely in those ten…
We’re spoilt for choice these days in the Second Browser Wars. There are at least five popular choices and quite a few non-mainstream choices as well. So if you have bought a new netbook or notebook recently, and didn’t get a choice of browser, just lumpy old Internet Explorer version 6, then some of these…
This is the second in my series of posting about how to choose a netbook? You can read the first one here. Battery Considerations. Well, you’re in the market for a netbook or even a notebook, and you’re struggling because of all the options that you need to consider to get a well-connected model. This…
If you have rented or bought a house from someone else, it’s likely you simply accepted the lighting units as they were when you moved in. I know I didn’t even bother to check they were working. One day, though, we must have had a power surge from the local power company. But our other…
Cactus Ice Cream, originally uploaded by obblogatory. This was pretty good. You can see the cactus fruit on the plate, and it’s turned into a kind of jelly or jam then frozen and added to a yam base. Really nice, and very refreshing. You can also eat the fruit fresh, but don’t eat the seeds.