Consumer
American Beef
In the last month there has been daily discussion in Taiwan about the recent decision to import US beef. They already import US beef, but previously Taiwan did not allow “high risk” beef to be imported from the USA. High Risk includes ground beef and beef offal (I have no idea what this means, but [...]
A Modern POV (Point of View)
Some people like to forward emails, I like to put TED videos on my blog. Over the last couple of years, TED videos have consistently knocked my socks off and have made me reconsider all kinds of things about the world today – I love them. This is a video that made me think about [...]
When Not to Use Google Search
I think Google is awesome, and I use it every day. However, there are times when I get really frustrated with it. There are searches I run and no matter how I seem to change the words I use, I still get a bunch of crap. The crap is usually in the form of results [...]
Fresh Air Indoors
I am a regular TED.org visitor and I recently ran across this video. This is a great, brief, video that can help you improve the air quality of your home or workplace.
From: www.TED.org
Time: 4:00 minutes
Subject: A study of 3 plants that work together to increase air quality indoors.
Summary of the plants and information from the [...]
Kleenex in Taiwan
I understood my first marketing tagline just the other day. Here in Taiwan toilet
paper and Kleenex are one and the same.
You buy big packs of them and you use them for just about everything in
your house. Also, you do not flush
toilet paper in Taiwan, so every
bathroom has a small trash can in it.
This is from [...]
A Chinese Odyssey
There’s a 500 year old book from China called “Journey to the West” or “Monkey“. It’s a folk tale that wraps in a lot of historical and cultural elements, while being very entertaining. Like Frankenstein, it was authored under a false name and the real author remained unknown for about 300 years. It has become [...]
Blows the doors off the concept “Renewable Energy”
XP Setup on a Shuttle SD30G2 computer
Life on the web
Why the commercials are so painfully true
So, I’m a PC user. Never had a mac, never bothered to try linux (though I keep hearing about Ubuntu).
Many people I know, rather limited in their PC abilities, just want a
computer to (1) get on the internet (2) store pictures (3) play games.
One of my co-workers just bought a laptop PC for these reasons, [...]
