Archive for December, 2007
Trees
I woke up to see this holocaust outside our house. It seems that one of our neighbors who is a member of the home-owners association was complaining about ants coming into her house from the trees, so the solution was to cut them all down.
So now, instead of the beautiful dappled light and green leaves […]
High ISO
When I was telling people I wanted a compact camera which could perform well at a high ISO, I think many misunderstood. What I really should have said is, I want to be able to take low-light pictures without a flash. This picture was taken using my DMC-LX2’s intelligent ISO mode, which selected an ISO […]
Wide Angle
After much deliberation I finally got a Panasonic DMC-LX2. The main competitor was the yet-to-be-announced LX3, and what finally made my decision was spending some time looking at this timeline of camera product announcements which made it pretty clear that it was unlikely for any new camera to be announced before the new year, and […]
Taiwan 2.0
I wanted to announce two projects which I think should be useful for English speaking residents of the Taiwanese interweb:
First is a Yahoo! Pipes feed which aggregates Michael, David, and Bent’s roundups of the English language blogsphere in Taiwan. That’s one RSS feed just for their link roundup posts. You can view it on the […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
