Over the years we’ve bought a lot of computers for the school, friends and ourselves. The list is quite endless really… Mostly we just buy them in specialist stores, occasionally we have them built ourselves or buy them from (ahem) department stores, where it’s rare to have anyone why a PC is different from a…
America is (perhaps) the most developed country in the world, in many regards. But there is a spot on its claim as the world’s garden of Eden, the lack of a national healthcare system. To someone who comes from Europe, and lives in Taiwan, this is a remarkable omission. It is amazing to believe that…
Summer in Taipei brings a host of foot-related problems to those of us used to wearing socks and dress shoes all year round, including skin problems, fashion issues and unfortunate odors! Wearing dress shoes and socks in Summer here is almost impossible to bear at times because it’s 35C outside, and the shoes are on…
I was raking through my files a few weeks ago, pulling out books for computers that I no longer have. It reminded me of my first PC that I actually bought. The Amstrad PCW 8256 with 256kb of computer memory and it was actually a full word processing package but included an OS. The PCW…
Don’t you wish it was possible to have a a magic diet pill? Don’t you? Well, there are magic diet pills: they’re called vegetables and fruit! Many people base reviews of so called wonder drugs for dieting on four criteria: price, safety, effectiveness, and consumer reviews! So let’s see: Price. Vegetables and fruit are available…
Buy.com’s becoming really popular for its last minute sale items in the electronics section. The last time I looked, the site refused my request! So if you’re looking for some great deals, you might want to wait until the site is less crowded before you try to snag some of those items. During recessionary periods,…
We travel to the UK every few years, though it is particularly expensive to get good accommodation in the UK. In fact, most guest houses and hotels are substandard, expensive, and variously unpleasant. For example, one guest house I stayed in had an entrance way that smelled of urine. Another hotel looked great from the…
Having owned a wireless router at school for nearly four years, we’ve loved it. It’s a fantastic device, and now we’re on the verge of pulling up all the wiring to go 100% wireless. That device is quite reliable and has worked for ages. It was the DLink Model 624 and I upgraded the firmware…
I’ve been switching out some of my domains to NameCheap recently. I was struggling with two of my former hosting companies and decided that the best advice was really to separate all hosting from all domains. You can point the domains anywhere you want when you do this; and you can escape from a lousy…