Of course, if you’d read my previous post, you’d realize that no matter what kind of of healthcare system it has, society still has to pay for people who make the wrong choices in life: illegal drinking, driving accidents, smoking, drugs, … whatever nonsense people decide. That even includes the cigarette smokers, the cigar smokers,…
Dear readers, if you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that I often post on Taiwan Life, well, I’ve decided to move as many as there are decent posts to my new Taipei City Guide Blog: a blog about the great things that Taipei (and Taiwan) have to offer the world. So,…
Do you need night cream? Or suncreams? Or any of a hundred other available cosmetics from a website near you? I visited one website that was selling these products, and I was shocked… Why? It seems that many marketers are targeting online sales for their products, with comprehensive sites: that are short on depth, aimed…
Isn’t it time that Britain really adopted democracy? Many Britons are so comfortable with the shackles of feudal power that they fail to see what their country is not: a democracy. Yes, we vote. But our votes are unrepresented or under-represented, our leaders are indirectly elected, if at all, and our head of state, is…
Much of the western world is mired in higher unemployment rates: 9% in the US, 7.5% in the UK, and in Spain it’s over 20% already. In California, the rate is staggering – 12.6%, according to one source. What makes things worse is the realization that many unemployed are no longer being properly counted as…
Smart Car: Really for two?, originally uploaded by obblogatory. What a great little run about? How big is the engine? About the size of my pen capacity?… Still looks great. update: it’s apparently called the Smart Roadster and has excellent fuel economy: Toyota Prius levels. I’m not exactly sure which model it is: so please…
Trying to squeeze the last dollar out of products like home insurance, car insurance, health insurance, etc. isn’t always a good idea. It’s true: we do often overpay for things like that because we fail to look around and examine thoroughly what’s on the market. But there are times when trying to save the last…
I just don’t get Twitter at all. Everytime I login I see a mass of texts that look like discontiguous verbal twitchings of some feral dogs. See what I mean? Who cares a toss about someone twitting about their great day! Next up. Mashable talks about an article with a link – since it’s about…
I don’t think so. I keep having permissions issues with it. Perhaps it’s another reason why I’m now downsizing my blogs… It’s just too much to handle all this stuff! I want to blog, not manage Unix permissions on a level like that!