Along with possibly thousands of people that voted on Amazon for the $79 Wii, I am one of many that could not wait to find out whether or not I won...

Few days ago, I got an email from a friend about the "Chintendo Vii" from China.

At a quick glance, it's an obvious knock-off of the ever popular Nintendo Wii.  Several months ago, the hot item on the tech community was the "ifone," an alternative to the iPhone from Apple...

It's definitely an experience...  I have not experienced a typhoon in ages.  These years in US, when I hear about typhoons in Taiwan, all I think about is just strong winds and rain.  This time, being in Taiwan, it definitely feels different...

Today, I woke up at 6:30am.  Due to the jet lag, I am still a bit dizzy and zoned out.  In addition to the lingering stickiness, we were welcomed by a huge down-pour...

We arrived in Taiwan yesterday morning.  For the most part, we had a pretty sunny day.  Regardless of the weather, we were quickly reminded of the humidity here...

Recently, maybe due to the mass power outages in the greater LA area, my cable internet service has not been performing at its norm.  Tonight, it was crawling at best.  Even the simple Google basic home page took some time to come in.  As a result, I decided to call my service provider, Time Warner Cable...

When we are sick, it's natural that we either go to the doctors or reach for the next OTC medicine.  In the back of our minds, we know that the doctors have been through years of training...

I believe, in life, we continue to be students, whether it be life lessons, or job skills required at hand...

The most common question a man gets asked when he is about to have his first child is "are you ready to be a dad?"  No one is ever ready.  Our lives do not ccome with instruction manuals like the products we buy in the stores.  This new life that is given, comes with responsibilites so great that would cause many to back away.  Yet, there is just something about this little life that turns a boy into a man...

Ran into some old friends today.  Actually, they ran into us.  These unexpected encounters are a lot of fun.  It's been over a year since we saw each other...

Frustrating problems...  Not only are these bus climbing patios, bypassing bug spray, they are now clawing under stucco, through the walls, and into the house.  Just yesterday, I discovered a trail of ants marching through my livingroom...

How do you know when you are getting old?  When you start to think about  how things were when you were younger.  "...I remembered gas used to cost so much per gallon..."  The dead give-away is...

Ants seem to have stopped coming into the house...

I used to think having a swarm of ants is a big problem.  About a year ago, we had a sudden infestation.  There were trails of ants in several places around the house...

Several months ago, I was baited to try the Google Web Accelerator.  Having no idea what it is and what it does, I took it at face value.  I assued it's suppose to accelerate my web experience...

I am a novice when it comes to ASP.net.  A few months ago, I took it upon myself to learn it.  Since then, I came across quite a few things.  One of the topics is working with classes.  At first, all of my code resided in the CS page of each of the aspx pages.  I quickly noticed that I was recoding many common funcitons.  There had to be a better way..

Hurray!    Went through 1 whole week of transfer.  I am glad I waited.  The new server is so much better...

Well, I've complained again.  This time, they've offered to move my account to another web server. They promise that it will be much better.  We shall see...

For the last year or so, I've been hosting my website at Host Department.  They are definitely great when it comes to value.  However, when it comes to performance...  I wish I have better things to say...