Taoyuan Airport Impromptu Baroque Tai Chi Ballet

Friday, February 16th, 2007

It is around 7 AM and daylight is just breaking out over the Taoyuan airport in Taiwan on Chinese New Year's Eve after a long flight from SFO, and I'm sitting waiting for a connecting flight to Kaohsiung and I've been studying advanced SQL techniques. I turn on my iPod ...

Cultura 2006

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Ah it's that time of year again. Macworld announcements, and now this. Thanks jeantue for this wonderful distraction. for those of you unattuned, this is just a casual list of friends that send around a list of their favorite cultural distractions for the previous year. I think it's a fine tradition. ...

Learning Mandarin via Podcasts

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

This is a great idea, beautifully implemented: ChinesePod I like the fact that they've broken down the podcasts into newbie, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. I especially like their business model: Distribute the podcasts for free, and charge for the additional learning materials. They have chosen the blog format to present the material, and ...

Exploring that podcast doohickey

Friday, July 1st, 2005

No, I'm not talking about dabbling in doing my own podcast. I'm way more behind the times than that. Yesterday was my first experience with actually downloading and listening to one. Well three to be exact. My goal was to see if I could quickly find and download some new content, ...

You Too Can Be An iPod Model

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

This is sincerely hilarious: iPod My Photo Via Slat Rat.