Dance Dance Dance

by | Jun 20, 2009 | Post

At Taipei 101 shopping mall, four dancers share their best moves in front of a curious audience. I think the mall is the best place to practice curing our stage phobia – there is always someone to watch you, most of them with idle time, there as customers but...

Name

by | Jun 18, 2009 | Post

At the back of the buses in Taipei, we see the driver's name alongside the company nameplate. Officially, the main reason for this might be so citizens can call the local authority when 'something' happens. But it means something more important for the...

MRT map, winner takes it all, long tail

by | Jun 16, 2009 | Post

台北地下鉄駅の出入り口にはわかりやすい周辺地図が必ず（ポイントです）あります。既に４年、台北で生活しており地下鉄は最も頻繁に利用する交通機関なのですが、「地図がかならずある」というのがこれほど安心感を与えてくれるのか、とほぼ毎回現在位置を確認する際に感じます。よく考えると、行き先が決まっており、かつ何度も来たことがある場合でない限り、まず地図を確認しています。そんなに利用する必要などないはずです。文字通り迷路のような東京では地図の場所を覚えておくことが初めて利用した駅での鉄則でしたが、十字路が整然と並び、地下鉄も十字に走る台北ではその...

Evolution of iPhone killers

by | Jun 12, 2009 | Post

For a while after iPhone came out, everybody rushed into creating all-touch sensitive, all-flat, all-screen, no-button devices. One even claimed their look-alike was ahead of iPhone. (On searching for the news link, I found there was an imitation improvement upon...