My GF and Vista

Published on June 3, 2008 in Australia under Life

My girlfriend's laptop has 1GB of memory, and Vista. I just heard a classic quote from her today: "I think Vista plus Office equals Monster." Followed by... "I just clicked the exsomething.exe with the somethingelse.exe and hit end task. Now my desktop went black." Read more.

A Car Accident

Published on Oct. 27, 2007 in Australia under Life

First off, don't worry, it wasn't me. The day started off as usual: check email, call the United States, take care of business. Yan-Shih baked some muffins, and some yummy scones. To get out of the house we decided to take a little trip down to Oxford street in the ... Read more.

Arrived in Sydney

Published on Sept. 19, 2007 in Australia under Life

We have arrived in Sydney! Our flight wasn't too bad, but shortly upon arrival we realized we didn't fully organize our transportation or accommodation. Either way, we bought a phone card at the airport (which is $10 instead of $2 downtown), and jumped on a bus to downtown. Shortly we ... Read more.

Bad Internet, No Bone

Published on May 28, 2007 in Taiwan under Life

I am currently working from a Starbucks cafe, I'll admit it. Mostly the internet is pretty good, I pay about $15/month to use it. However, today it is utter and total crap. Don't believe me? So, in addition to the fact that certain sites totally fail to load (and I ... Read more.

To Shanghai... Or Not

Published on Dec. 29, 2006 in China under Life

Yan-Shih and I woke up, well, actually she woke me up. We walked out and got some breakfast, then finished packing, said goodbye to everybody, and left to catch our train. While downtown we exchanged a little more money, ate lunch at a Macao Portugal place, and bought out tickets ... Read more.

A Long Boat Ride Home

Published on Oct. 9, 2006 in Taiwan under Life

Today sucked. For whatever reason, unknown by me, I decided to 'have some fun' and take the ferry back to Taiwan. What-was-I-thinking. Now, I've been able to take several ferries before, some for extended periods of time. Little did I know, this was going to be a slightly bumpy ride. ... Read more.

A Flash Flood

Published on Aug. 10, 2006 in Thailand under Life

We awoke quite early, and after breakfast (at a restaurant+mechanic store by the river) jumped on a truck-style taxi (wood floors, people just sort of pile in on either side). The taxi took us to Old Town, where we started to walk around the ruins. I am amazed that there ... Read more.

Oh, It Is Christmas Eve!

Published on Dec. 23, 2004 in Germany under Life

 Hi everybody! I didn't quite realize it but today is Christmas eve. I hope my family won't be too mad at me:) We are at a wonderful internet cafe -- one euro a minute. Casey is doing whatever to my left and the host guy is to my right listening ... Read more.

My Bad

Published on Dec. 22, 2004 in Germany under Life

 That last post was on the 23rd, not 24th. Oops. Read more.

Beep Beep

Published on Dec. 18, 2004 in Italy under Life

 So, same post, the computer started beeping and me and since it is in German I ha no clue what was being said. So we got on the train and I slept again ... Casey talked to a French guy, I think he was French. The last stop before the ... Read more.

All-nighter, and the Worst Haircut Ever

Published on Aug. 20, 2003 in Denmark under Life

I th ink my last entry was slightly wrong, since I only spend three days in Copenhagen. Think it was really the 17th, but I d don't really know!So I have been in Europe for well over a month now, and my time is winding down.  I have most of ... Read more.

Goodbye #1

Published on Aug. 9, 2003 in Italy under Life

I am alone again, on an ICE to Venice.After we went up to the top of the Eiffel tower we went back to the hostel, made some food, and then went to bed.  I fell asleep pretty early, however Ana stayed up for a while longer writing in her journal.  ... Read more.

I Get Lost. And Found.

Published on July 23, 2003 in Italy under Life

I have a couple of days to cover now, and it has been quite an adventuresome couple of days!  Starting back two days ago, I arrived in Montrusso eventually, after taking a few detours and losing my friends and so forth.  I arrived and the first thing on my list: ... Read more.

Lost on Rails

Published on July 21, 2003 in Italy under Life

Well, I woke up and got a little food from a pastry shop, it was soooo good.  I checked my bag in at the train station, while Sybil and Ash kept theirs at the hotel.  At about noon we got on a train and headed over to Monaco, and jumped ... Read more.

A Dying Laptop

Published on March 20, 2007 under Tech Blog

I have the pleasure of owning an old T23 laptop. To show you how old this puppy is, the current T series is at T60, and those have been out for over a year. This laptop was made in 2012, and I picked it up somewhat discounted late in 2003. ... Read more.

Python, AST and SOAP

Published on March 7, 2007 under Tech Blog

For one of my projects I need to generate thumbnails for a page. And lots and lots and lots of them. Even though I can generate them via a python script and a very light "gtk browser", I would prefer to mitigate the server load. To do this I've decided ... Read more.