SQJ Taipei

The long-awaited High Speed Rail is finally finished and is operational.
To to surprise of many (not me) so far the total number of trains that have spontaneously exploded upon leaving the station is ZERO.
ZERO is also the same number of HSR trains lying in a rice field after derailing.
They are still working out some kinks [...]

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Last month… 2 powerful earthquakes hit southern Taiwan. As a result, some deep sea fiber optic telecommunications cables were damaged causing phone and internet outages and slowdowns throughout East Asia.
Surprisingly… I was never affected that I could tell.
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve found myself thinking about how they would go about fixing those cables… [...]

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I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the posts made during 2006. Maybe you missed some of these the first time around… maybe you’ll want to see them again.
It is fun to have posted enough to be able to have a post like this!
Joyful Day for the Xie [...]

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Just wanted to draw your attention to the sweet “missioblogs” I added to the sidebar.
These are all friends of ours from SPLICE at MTI during August 2006.
I’ve got ‘em set apart for now… but will mix them into the big list in a few days.
Check them out and let them know who sent you! [...]

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Here’s a story about a village in the Italian Alps that has a visionary mayor.
The village lies in a valley that is so steep that in the winter… direct sunlight can’t reach the village.
So… he put a mirror up on the top of a mountain and it reflects the sun down into the streets.
I love [...]

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No… not that SPAM.
The kind where the comments section of your blog gets filled with ads like your email inbox does. Unless your email is hosted by whoever hosts mine because it has a wonderful spam filter… worth any price being paid.
First I tried to have a little keyword to type in… but some spammers [...]

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I’m curious. I just had my 2nd teammate move their website and blog over to a mac.com address. I can understand why people do that… but…
I have found that the sites hosted there load *much* slower than any other host. I’m curious… are they slow for you too?
I’m guessing that it is similar to why [...]

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I’m not sure why I didn’t increase the font size on the blog a long time ago. I’ve always thought that I would change the theme… but that may not happen… so… I hope you like the larger font.
I’m still hoping to change the theme someday… yeah… that’ll be the day.

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You know I like to pass along technology related tools that I think might be helpful… here’s another one.
ZAMZAR.COM
I don’t know what the name means, but you can go to that website… upload some files… and convert them to several different file types. Since it is done through a web browser (and the the link [...]

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I know faithful reader Sean C had a Commodore 64. Anyone else?
I did not… as I had the sweet Commodore VIC 20… but I’m familiar with some of the C64 games.
Sean C and the rest of you retro gamerz (Sean had Colonization installed on his computer the last time I was at his house) will [...]

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