Did Tiger Woods’ accident happen like this?
Well Apple Daily’s video-re-enactments got it into real problems this week, but somehow I found this one engaging! Pity there’s no credits for this one! Wonder who did it.
Cigars vs cigarettes: culture vs. crassness
Image via Wikipedia Given my detestation of cigarettes (cancer-sticks) that every smoker seems to pull out of their pocket, I’m always shocked that people can be so cavalier about such things. Somehow, though when it comes to cigars, I’m prepared to make an exception because somehow they do smell better than cigarettes, they certainly have…
Do you have ‘toxic’ parents? What do children do?
When Parents Are Too Toxic to Tolerate You can divorce an abusive spouse. You can call it quits if your lover mistreats you. But what can you do if the source of your misery is your own parent? Granted, no parent is perfect. And whining about parental failure, real or not, is practically an American…
Obblogatory News: Sticky Server
After about a month of having a sticky server, where just every other time, I’d see a blank page here, I finally found out what was the matter: A PLUGIN! Somehow one of the Flickr plugins that provides images for the sidebar was interfering with the normal behavior of the server. It hasn’t cured all…
Smoking and asthma: Would you buy an air purifier?
As if the air in Taipei wasn’t dirty enough from all the motorcycles, we have neighbors who smoke. The old gentleman who lived in #14-5 had serious heart problems and yet he still smoked, cigars, too. Our neighbors in #14-4 also seem to smoke during the day and part of the evening. So a couple…
Home Insurance: Needed in Taiwan? Surely, but…
Would you need home insurance? Since being in Taiwan, I have noticed that Taiwanese are less concerned with insurance in general than Europeans. I’m not sure why, either. There have been a lot of disasters in Taiwan. In fact, soon we will have the 10th anniversary of the major earthquake in 1999 that destroyed over…
Home Design: Environmental, Efficient, and Elegant?
After the recent typhoon weather in Taiwan caused so many problems, I’ve been thinking a lot about environmentally friendlier living. For example, in Freiberg City in Germany, the concept of the passive house is gaining ground: a house that is entirely energy efficient even in the coldest winters. One resident was interviewed about it, and…
Avoid credit card scams when buying health supplements
If you are shopping online for PCs, books, dietary supplements, clothes, it always pays to check around because there can be quite a difference in pricing and terms & conditions between different suppliers. Of course, online stores are competitive in a number of ways. Most people take the most obvious way: price as the primary…
Letter to PizzaHut Taiwan
I had used PizzaHut Taiwan to order pizza once before. I used Firefox and had only a couple of problems, but last time I went, I was encouraged to use IE. This really doesn’t make any sense at all. So I wrote this to them.I hope they’ll answer… Yesterday I went to your website in…