My shared items from Google Reader aren’t getting forwarded to Twitter right now. Till that’s fixed, go here: http://tinyurl.com/yrkw7f # John Emerson, of http://www.idiocentrism.com, is self publishing an edited collection of his writings: http://stores.lulu.com/emersonj # I wonder if visitors to Shenzhen will be given temporary ID cards to track their activities while they are there? [...]
I’m very proud to announce that today I finally passed my Taiwanese driving exam and received a local driver’s license. This is no mean feat. You’ll find that many foreigners drive without a license because the process is so difficult. I would not have managed without the help of one of my students, Pisaw who [...]
Rudy Giuliani’s Five Big Lies About 9/11 http://tinyurl.com/3ct2bd # The linguistically interesting title 《當我們假在一起》http://tinyurl.com/2dt8vj #
"Thanks to the ephemerality of Amerigo Vespucci’s reputation as an explorer, America was given an enduring name." http://tinyurl.com/35ka6q # NCIKU lets you look up Chinese characters by drawing on the screen! http://www.nciku.com/ #
NHI stands for Taiwan’s National Health Insurance program. After seeing the movie Sicko (see here) which compared US healthcare to that in several other countries, I’ve been looking for a way to get a sense of how it compares to health care here in Taiwan. (I’m not the only one, Thoth Harris wrote a post [...]
A year ago I wrote about various alternative services I use in lieu of Apple’s .Mac suite of online tools. With Apple’s recent upgrades to .Mac, I thought it worth returning to the subject to see if there is any way I could justify paying the $99 a year for services I’m already getting elsewhere [...]
Really enjoyed Erin McKean’s Wikimania 2007 presentation: http://tinyurl.com/ysantb Her blog: http://tinyurl.com/2j4oab # Full list of talks I attended at Wikimania 2007 (or wish I had): http://tinyurl.com/yp7jqo # Cheers for Isaac! http://tinyurl.com/235meo #
Had a great time last night at the wikimania blogger meetup with Isaac Mao and Rebecca MacKinnon. http://del.icio.us/ilya/blogger-meetup # Yesterday’s Citizen Journalism Unconference was great. I even facilitated a discussion. Can you guess which one? http://tinyurl.com/yvko2c #
Directions to the wikimania venue are as detailed as you would expect (be sure to watch the video): http://tinyurl.com/ynwzaz #