Entries for the ‘personal’ Category

Temporary weekend hiatus

I’m going to be ‘out of the office’ till about Monday so rather than completely exhaust myself I’m going to take a temporary hiatus until early next week. Monday we should be good to go and back to our regular publishing schedule. Comments will still function as normal in the meantime but I might be [...]

The new iGoogle Gmail interface is freaking FUGLY!

Being a big fan of multitasking (as stressful as it can be at times), I like to make full use of Google’s iGoogle homepage. In a nutshell it lets me put things like my reader subscriptions, mail and weather forecasts set as my default homepage everytime I load up my browser. Sometime in the last [...]

Does Boric acid bait work on Taiwanese ants?

Over the years I’ve had various run ins with ants. Usually a symptom of the remains of one too many late night snacks being left out, the ants tend to invade sometime during the morning and in some cases, have gone to extraordinary lengths to find whatever remains have left out. In my current apartment, [...]

Making Easiyo on the cheap: milk power + yogurt base

With Australia being so close to Easiyo’s home of New Zealand, I didn’t have to think too hard when it came to purchasing yogurt base sachets in bulk from Big W. By buying the triple plain yogurt pack (3 litres of Easiyo yogurt) that came in a box for $7 or so, I was still [...]

A Yonghe Mountain dog rescue in Miaoli County, Taiwan

My blog publishing schedule has kinda gone out the door this week with the arrival of an unexpected furry rescue. My girlfriend recently got a Pinnacle Expede 1.0 cyclocross bike (more on that later), and along with my Long Haul Trucker we’ve been tackling mountain trails around Taiwan with the hope of completing a tour around [...]

Google’s voice search can’t understand my accent

I’m not entirely sure when it rolled out but sometime over the last few hours I’ve started to get a google voice search option (a little microphone icon) appear in my search bar after I’ve conducted a search. It could have been implemented earlier but to be honest with the amount of time I spend [...]

Juice Media’s Rap News Epsiode 8: Osamacide is out!

I was pleasantly surprised out of nowhere this morning to read that Juice Media have released their latest episode of Rap News. ‘Epsiode 8: Osamacide’ gets back to some solid rhymes and beats discussing the recent assasination of Osama Bin Laden;

Planking: Cleansing Australia of our idiots

Back in 2006, the Lying Down Game was born on Facebook. As with most internet memes, Australia is a few decades behind and it is only recently that the Lying Down Game has caught on under the name of ‘planking’. With Planking, the basic idea is that you get someone to take a photo of [...]

The conclusion to my Pug mauled to death in Taiwan

Back in late March, when everything seemed to be going fine, I suffered the devastating setback of having to endure my pet Pug puppy Pogo getting mauled to death. The attacking dog in question was none other then my neighbours pet Doberman. On the day of the incident we spoke with who at the time [...]

Pug superstar cheers on Osama Bin Laden’s death

So like everyone else I too am watching the news coverage on Osama Bin Laden’s death. The Australian Sky news feed is currently streaming some very serious looking newsmen and commentary on the announcements following Bin Laden’s death. Meanwhile overlayed on top of the broadcast is a live feed from public gatherings outside the Whitehouse. [...]