Why I Chose Kindle over iPad: Because Less is Better

by | Apr 18, 2010 | Post

I have been pondering  buying a good e-book reader but couldn’t decide until now, because I heard the iPad, the Terminator for everything between mobile phones and laptops, is much better than Amazon’s Kindle. iPad allows access to as many books as Kindle (the...

Guest post @ MultilingualMania

by | Apr 16, 2010 | Post

I guest-posted an entry on being an alien yet part of the local picture in Taiwan in MultilingualMania, a cool website dedicated to multilingualism in the new millennium. Check other stuff from that site especially if you are interested in being bilingual.

[ Video ] The Knack: Rocket O’ Love

by | Apr 15, 2010 | Post

Ma, ma, ma, myyyeeeeee Sharona. Do you think The Knack was the ultimate one-hit wonder (until Vanilla Ice came in)? Actually, they almost had their second chance. Riding the revival boom of the early 90s, they tried to ignite the fire again in 1991 with this song. It...

Why we still look back on the 80s: lost innocence

by | Apr 14, 2010 | Post

Hot Tub Time Machine has come out. This is how it (should have) started. Writer: Hot tub time machine. Friend A: What? Writer: Nothing. It just popped into my head. Friend A: Sounds lame but funny. What are you going to do with it? Writer: I don’t know. Maybe I can...

Is China becoming more like Japan?

by | Apr 12, 2010 | Post

Following the well-documented debacle between Google and China, the San Jose Mercury News says people are realizing that doing business in China is getting tougher for U.S. companies."It was inevitable after a certain time they would no longer roll out the red...