It’s interesting how much stuff she brings back every time she goes back, it’s as if Taiwan is a 3rd world country or something. Common items are Q-tips (those in Taiwan don’t work as well), vitamins, dietary supplements, baby soup, tampons, and a lot more that I can’t remember right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet

Fortunately, we had walls that were much lower, otherwise you’d see a lot more than just feet. Also, a squatting toilet is still a toilet, it still flushed and all.

The hardest part is trying to balance yourself while going to the bathroom. It was okay when I was a little kid, but I can’t imagine doing that now with my bad knees & bad back (all basketball related injuries).

However, all of those things sure beats the hell out of a hole hammered out on the floor, while everyone watches you squat over it… You’ve got me beat by a mile.

There will always be people that simply don’t care, and just wants their computer fixed (and that’s how I deal with my car, I just trust the dealership or some mechanic my friend recommended will be good enough to fix the problems).

However, you also have the people who really want to learn more about what caused the problem so it wouldn’t happen again. At these times, you would hope that the IT people would be nice enough to “teach” what they know rather than just make snarky comments. Unfortunately that’s far & few in between.

@ayn
You’re just lucky!

I think there are growing numbers of people who has turned to Mac because they understand the platform, and made a “technical” choice to go with Mac rather than Windows.

There is also a community of users that have been using Mac for years because it “simply works”, and never had to deal with any technical issue (or just drop them off at the Genius Bar).

I’m really somewhere in between. Since I’m not an engineer, but a big computer geek.

To them, being a “Mac user” pretty much equivocate to being completely computer illiterate.

that’s weird coz almost all Mac users I know are programmers, I guess Mac users generally are either highly technical or comp illiterates.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615

I upgraded to the full version of FF3 a few days ago and lost my del.icio.us plugin with Firefox not finding an update. I’ve been using Shareaholic instead, but it doesn’t have nearly the amount of cool features that the new del.icio.us plugin appears to have.

Allen Taylor

Wishing you all the best,
Jenny

I really enjoyed reading your blog today. Very interesting stuff! And I think you are right on when you say, “Maybe it’s about time we stopped using marriage as a claim of ownership to another person’s heart.”

Wishing you all the best,
Jenny Block
Author of “Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage”
http://www.jennyonthepage.com

I actually got into the beta for Hellgate London as well, shortly before the official release. That game turned out to be slightly disappointing as well, although not as much as Tabula Rasa. I think that’s because I was not expecting nearly as much from a Diablo clone as Richard Gariott tauting the second coming of MMOs.

I played exactly 3 hours and 55 minutes of Tabula Rasa on launch day before I gave up. Your assessment is spot on – I was completely lost when it came to figuring out what to allocate where, what made a difference, and when to use which item or ability. To make things even worse, the whole system of resistances and specific weapon/ammunition types and subtypes was overly complicated. It’s way too much for a beginning player to handle.

The designers for WoW did a brilliant job at easing people into the game and presenting the player with just enough information to keep them moving and make them feel productive. I suspect Tabula Rasa player numbers will peek quickly and fall off just as fast.

I did find a few more addon that helps “enriching” the tagging experience with WP 2.3 though.

Or it would’ve been the same size as the iPhone with a hard drive based storage.

Being a stripped down iPhone really doesn’t give me much in the sense of value proposition. If the iPhone price didn’t drop by $200, I’m not sure I would have any of the new iPod line at all right now.

And so you and your cat take turns hiding under the bed? I should just go ahead and ship your mattress over to my house then. Mwahahahahaha~~

Bathroom do tend to have unique acoustic characteristics.

Not going to compromise my hi-fi sound by using speakers on a toilet roll.. Muahahahah~~~!!!!

Then they will definitely need this product.