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NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
Each week, I listen to a couple of dozen podcasts. My favorite by a good margin is NPR’s Planet Money. It’s about economics, but this is economics as you’ve never heard it before. This is not the economics of complex numbers, difficult equations, statistics, and ten economists in a room all saying different things till you don’t know what to believe. This is economics of …
Handel’s Oratorio “Jephtha” at Zhongshan Hall
I tend to do a lot of things on impulse these days, and my impulse last night was to attend a performance at Zhongshan Hall. The performance was of Jephtha, an oratorio by Handel, and it was one of the more extraordinary evenings I’ve had in a long time.
Zhongshan Hall is one of the grand performance venues in Taipei. It was built between 1932 and …
Seeing a Movie at the Breeze Center
Another thing I like is going to see a movie at the Breeze Center here in Taipei. The Breeze Center is a somewhat high-end shopping mall on Fuxing Road. There is really nothing in the mall itself that I would ever want to buy. Most malls in Taipei are like that. If you gave me ten thousand US dollars and sent me into one of …
WordPress Themes, Zip Files, FTP Clients, & Screen Options
Despite the nice weather on Sunday this past weekend, I didn’t go out exploring. I was still intent on figuring out the technical side of this blog, and the hours disappeared as I fiddled and experimented and tested. It seems there are still millions of things I don’t understand at all, but I did make some small discoveries.
For one, I learned that it is really …
World Biking – Quest to Cycle Every Country on Earth
On Sunday, the weather finally cleared up a bit and it stopped raining. That’s good news for Amaya and Eric, two people I know through the Internet who are currently cycling in Taiwan. They are on a quest to be the first couple to cycle through every country in the world. I believe Taiwan is country number 81 for them.
They began cycling in June of …
Radio Paradise Internet Music Station
One of the things I like is a website called Radio Paradise. It’s an Internet radio station with a difference. It’s low-key and advertisement free. Only occasionally do the people running the radio show come on and say anything. Even then, they just tell you that you’re listening to Radio Paradise and they tell you what songs you just heard and what song is coming …
WordPress & Zip Files, FTP Clients, Screen Options
On Sunday, the weather cleared up a bit and it stopped raining. That’s good news for Amaya and Eric, two people I know through the Internet who are currently cycling in Taiwan on their trip around the world. About a week ago, they took a ferry from mainland China to the Penghu Islands of Taiwan and then another ferry to Taiwan. So they’ve been here …
Choosing a WordPress Theme
I would like to list all the astonishing and fun things I did on Saturday, but not having done many astonishing and fun things, I can’t. What I did instead was try to master some more of the inner workings of WordPress. That wouldn’t take so long except that I find everything so non-intuitive that I need to go some distance into actually setting something …