Welcome to 2010! A new year, but how much will really be new this year? By January 10th, most people will have already given up on their new year resolutions. Anyway, who started that ridiculous idea. I haven’t made any resolutions this year yet. But these are the ones I thought of: I would like…
As a longtime webmaster, I think that the new Google sidewiki feature could be seriously abused. I reserve the right to control who sees/says what when they visit my site(s)… as such I just don’t know why Google hasn’t implemented an opt-out/opt-in feature…. This is decidedly high handed IMHO, esp. as there is NO way…
I think the correct term must be local expats, or whatever term we like to use to describe ourselves! A couple of months ago I subscribed to a newsletter, called Taiwan What’s Up. It seems be a government sponsored newsletter that reaches out to foreigners in a variety of languages and provides valuable information about…
It seems that I will be running a travel website soon. I finally registered a great local domain ending in .com and am working on the content for a Travel Site based on Taipei City/County. I’m quite excited about that domain as I already have a lot of content that could be adapted, hacked and…
I was discussing buying a site tips on one of the SiteBuildIt boards, when I came across this posting “Should You Buy an Established Website?” by Zac Johnson. It’s a good read, and he provides some good tips. Go here to read it, but… Read more: http://investorblogger.com/#ixzz0YvT1wJHo
I was playing around on the Net, when I found this great website that helps translate the Queen’s English into various common British Dialects. It’s all at a site called WhooHoo, which you can find here at http://www.whoohoo.co.uk. My native tongue (and one I have difficulties with is Scots) you can check out on their…
I’ve been blabbing on about the current US debate on healthcare reform for quite some time now, so I went to the Blue Cross North Carolina site to check a couple of random rates for a family of four approximately my age. For my wife and myself, with two kids included (one under 12/one over),…
A lot of homeowners have found themselves in really bad trouble by taking out excessive home loans in the United States. And this is part of the problem which led up to the financial crisis. Why? Because lenders forgot the basic principals of lending when they could write off risky loans by passing them off…
Simon Owens recently asked me to refer him to some Asian bloggers, which I duly did, not really knowing that much about Taiwan Bloggers. However, it seems as if the project he was engaged in has finally borne some fruit. Simon’s new site… is Asian Correspondent. Hey, I don’t know if you remember me but…