Archive for May, 2008

Hot off the press - East Asia Update, May 2008

I just received the current East Asia Update. It looks like it has some coverage of the recent tragedy in China. Click the graphic below to be taken to the newsletter (on TheBellSite).
                       

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Shiny New Look

Sorry for the lull in new entries. Fran and I have been extra busy with end-of-the-BSF-year “stuff”. I’m completely finished now and Fran just has a couple of meetings and some admin things to wrap up before the Matthew study is completed.
I’ve finally gotten the WordPress blogging software updated to the latest release. It has [...]

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All Subways Should be Like Taipei’s Marvel of Mass Transit | from Wired.com

I had just thought that it was because I was a country bumpkin moved to the BIG city. Since moving here years ago we’ve really been impressed with Taipei’s subway system. What the linked article fails to mention, which just sweetens the deal, is the bus system that connects to the subway. All in [...]

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Get Out And Play

We all need to do that - don’t we?
Well, this is a link to a website that is pretty impressive. I won’t spoil it for you. Just click the link and go there.  It takes a while for it to get all loaded up; just be patient. You can play while you are waiting. Pay [...]

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Price of gas

  I don’t know about where you live but the price of gasoline in Taiwan has gotten out of hand!
I checked the price today - liters to gallons, then NT$ to US$ - and found that we are paying $3.75 per gallon of 92 octane gasoline. Compare that to the year I graduated high school [...]

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