Beyond the Rhetoric

If you are a frequent reader of this blog, then you’ll know that I like to eat. I very much enjoy exploring all kinds of different restaurants, cuisines and cooking styles. As such, it should come as little surprise that I am trying to eat as much as I can while here in Taipei. For [...]

When you’ve only heard and spoken a word, but never written it, getting the right spelling can be quite the challenge. This is particularly true with words that you don’t use very often. A great example of this is expatriate. Does the spelling look odd to you? It might. An expatriate (called an “expat” for [...]

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” Life isn’t easy. I think most of us can accept that we are going to face challenges and hardships along the way, but it’s important to perceive these as learning opportunities. It is through these opportunities [...]

At the request of one Jeff Cutler, I am providing a brief video tour of my hotel room here in Taipei. Stephen and I are staying at the Forte Orange business hotel, Linsen location for the duration of Computex. The site is in Chinese, but you can switch to English near the top-right corner and [...]

As I mentioned on Monday, I’m currently in Taiwan for Computex. Unlike the previous two visits, though, I didn’t take the direct flight from Vancouver to Taipei this time around; I took a connector that had me stopping over in Beijing for a few hours. The difference in the ticket price was worth it. While [...]