Blade Runner vs. Terminator

The polished, uncut version will come out at the end of this year. Like Terminator, Blade Runner is a certified classic marred with rudimentary special effects.In the Terminator we had the scene where Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to take off damaged eyeballs –...

Changes in Japanese landscape

When I returned Japan for the late summer vacation three weeks ago, the most notable changes occurred in the suburbs. More restaurants, more mobile phone service stations, more small offices, more DIY malls. They indicated two trends.1. The sceneries are getting...

Back to Taiwan – new iPod

So I had spent a week in Japan, taking a late summer vacation. Some things have changed, some never.Today’s topic is, of course, the new iPod series.Get this – the iPod now contains 160GB of storage. That’s more than the entire hard drive in my...