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 [...]

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;

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

It should have been any other day. Like clockwork Pogo woke me up at around 9:30 wanting to go out for his morning toilet. I’d been training him to eliminate outside over the past two months I’d had him and things were starting to pay off. He hadn’t had an ‘accident’ inside for about a [...]

Following hot on the footsteps of Episode 6: Cablegate, Juice Media have just released Episode 7 of their RapNews series, #revolution. #revolution follows the uprisings currently taking place in the Middle East and seeks to draw a comparison between the recent protests in the US over union restrictions.

When I left for Taiwan, one of the biggest dilemmas I faced was what to do with my cat. I had the option of rehousing him or bringing him with me. Each decision had it’s positives and negatives but in the end I couldn’t bear to leave the cat I’d raised as a kitten in [...]

Jade Lotus Tantra massage is a three step massage course designed to ‘tap into each person’s sensuality, and help them discover parts of themselves that they didn’t know existed or had long forgotten about‘. Sound vague? You betcha, but here’s a bit more of a detailed explanation into the three steps of the Jade Lotus [...]

Late last year the community hub website Taiwanderful ran its annual Taiwan blog awards. With no actual prize on offer, the basic premise around the blog awards is to ‘promote English-language blogs about Taiwan‘. After just over a year of blogging about Taiwan, I decided to enter OzSoapbox as a contender for any of the [...]