SQJ Taipei

Interesting…
BBC NEWS - Chinese nanny state takes root in US
The opposite is true here… the Filipina nannies are in demand here because of their ability to speak English.
Certainly can’t argue with the fact that learning Mandarin and English will have its advantages… English is the most widely spoken language in the world… and Mandarin is [...]

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Yet another technology post… but some have said they like these posts…
Right now I’m feeling a bit like I did when I first discovered ICQ back in about 1997 when it was brand new… or was it 1996?
Here’s snippets of 2 reviews…
PC Magazine
“The Swiss Army Knife of Internet Communications Tools… All told, the public beta [...]

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That’s me… shrewd as a snake.
Matthew 10:16 is one of the verses in the Bible that I don’t really get…
Jesus says to his disciples, “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”
I thought of that verse today when I went to the Post [...]

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In the comments, reader Josh Furnal asked:
QUOTE:
OH, tell me about superstitions in chinese culture. are the numbers 8 and 4 lucky or unlucky? i read an article in class today that talked a bit about chinese superstition. Didn’t know if you knew anything about it…
The short version—–

The number 4 is unlucky… for the simple reason [...]

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I’ve changed the LINKS section over in the sidebar… decided to start using a “blogroll” and found that BLOGROLLING.COM works well…
I’ve updated the list with blogs I like and think you’ll like some of them as well.
The roll is set to randomize the order of the sites so that those listed won’t think I’m favoring [...]

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If you call us at 3AM… we’ll probably answer the phone that way.
I know this because that is what happened last night.
This is one of the interesting things about living on the other side of the world… when our phone rings at 3AM it can ONLY mean one of 3 things:

Someone in Taiwan dialed a [...]

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Was thinking of the Simson book and thought of this guy for some reason…

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It has been a while since I posted #3… but here it is… This is the fourth resource I’ll share with you out of the four I mention in the original post HERE.
Resource #1 is HERE.
Resource #2 is HERE.
Resource #3 is HERE.
HOUSES THAT CHANGE THE WORLD - Wolfgang Simson
I can’t say enough about this book. [...]

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I can’t really explain the reason for all the tech-related posts lately… but today I’ve been in front of the computer almost all day… emailing… filing… many things… and in the middle of it I upgrated to the freshly released Thunderbird 1.5 mail client.
If you use MS Outlook and you use the tasks and the [...]

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Tonight at dinner, we took some time to revisit the questions we posed to the kids a few months ago and posted on the website. The new answers are up at the link below… so Ben C needs to be sure and read up so he’ll be ready if he needs to be Z-man again!
Pagels [...]

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