Taoyuan Nights

Today, I stumbled upon this link to a wonderful article at the New York Times. Normally I’d just hit forward and send it to a few friends, but the ideas are so intriguing that it deserves a blog mention.
Essentially, it asks: Why is the universe “human-suitable” in terms of the difficulty of understanding what’s going […]

One of the biggest problems I face when shopping in Taiwan, is that prices magically start rising as soon as people see me. Mobile phones, hard disks, you name it - prices often shoot up to 50% higher than what they would otherwise be, particularly for high value items such as electronic goods.
Heck, I’ve […]

A rambling mixture of gossip today.
The film “Hot Fuzz” is debuting currently in the UK. By the same people that produced “Shawn of the Dead”, and ‘Spaced’, this film could perhaps be described as a comedy about a top London cop being transferred to a rural village police force, but it’s probably more accurate […]

The Nintendo Wii is finally about to reach Taiwan officially! (maybe)
I’m basing this on the reports at Digitimes and elsewhere, that read: “Nintendo’s Taiwanese distributor ‘Hakuyu’ has stated that the new Wii system will fail to make it to the market any time before the Chinese New Year in February.” I also interrogated the […]

One of the things I like most about the areas away from Taoyuan city centre, is being able to see the sky at night. If you were born in a densely populated city, rather than out in the country and away from bright lights, then you possibly don’t feel the same urge to stare into […]

I recently found out I have genetic hypercholesterolaemia. This means that my body makes too much LDL (bad) cholesterol; my blood chemistry would make you think I was eating 8 McDonald’s burgers every day. Kind of annoying, in a ‘first heart attack in your 30s’ sort of way. I’ll write more about LDL later.
Anyway, this […]