With Spring in Taiwan showing the first signs of coming, flowers are beginning to bloom, especially the Sakura. That means hill climbing season is coming. Truthfully, hill walking time never seems to go away in Taiwan, but if you do decide to go hiking in the hills and foottrails of Taipei County, you will definitely…
What car accessories do you have? I have owned my first car for nearly five years… in that time, I’ve bought very few things for ‘Ed’. garbage bags; a small vacuum cleaner; a light; several phone chargers; new tires; cloths for cleaning; an emergency triangle; a feather brush for dust; a small box for small…
Looks like we’ll be traveling this coming summer! I’m so happy to hear that. I really would love to have a trip where we can away for a longer time. It’s been a while since I had any decent vacation. But I guess when you own your own business, that it simply becomes impossible to…
from EeeBlogger Have you ever had to lug around a large laptop bag with one of those DELL or IBM machines inside? You know what I’m talking about .. you’re at the airport, you have your flightbag, your checkin bag, your magazines, your ticket and passport! And you’re wishing: why is my notebook so heavy?…
Tonight I was chatting with Christine in the car as we came home after dinner. Through our discussions, I found that I really have been something of a jack of all trades through my life. I’m not sure if this is the result of personal upbringing or experience or is simply a reflection of my…
Who’d have thought? Dietary products that contain GREEN TEA! I have been following the diet fad industry for quite some time, ever since 2000 when I lost about 10 kilos through exercise, vegetables, and a variant of the Atkins diet. One of the things that Atkins teaches is avoid caffeine because of its effect on…
If you’re happy toting around a large notebook from the early 2000’s, then you’ll be quite happy buying large usb dongles for all sorts of added functionality: memory cards, plugin mice, keyboards, Bluetooth, etc… So good deals in the Sale like the Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter will make you happy! Why? It’s inexpensive, plugs into…
After my router review, I had to throw away my old DLink when I discovered it was broken (knackered, as they say in Britain). Totally. The aerial fell off the back when I picked it up. Mm. Good build quality. I’m now looking at a Buffalo N-finiti model but haven’t heard anything good or bad…
Over the past year, I’ve led quite an aggressive campaign at my place of work to reduce our carbon emissions, cut our bills, and spend the resulting savings on people rather than things. We’ve had quite a success, which was borne out again when we just got the most recent bills for our electricity. In…