The big toe on my left foot is exceptionally painful today. I can bend it, but there it aches when I do. I don’t know if it’s broken and I don’t know if I can be bothered going to the hospital to find out. I mean, what will they do if it is broken? Tell [...]
Archive for October 2010
That hypnic jerk broke my toe!! 2 comments
Photography 2 comments
It has always been a wish of mine to shoot some lightning photography. Unfortunately I’ve never found myself in the right place at the right time with the right equipment to do so. In the past few weeks we’ve had some amazing electrical storms here in Kunming, and this has given me the opportunity to [...]
The price of quality Leave a comment
The factory that I visited last week is rather large. It’s more like a campus, with at least 7 multi-story buldings and warehouses. The company has been in manufacturing since around 1987 and at one stage was looking to set themselves up as the radio shack of China. That didn’t pan out for them, but [...]
Stupid & pointless 10 comments
I need a new passport. There are still 3 years left on the passport that I originally got for my trip to Japan at the end of ’03, but the large number of trips, especially in and out of Korea and Taiwan, in the last few years has meant that I’m about to run out [...]
Tuesday morning freak-out. 3 comments
Power Distribution 6 comments
Our family is known as the board game family. We have successfully converted many of our friends into lovers of carcassonne, settlers of catan and other great games. Cathryn and I are always on the look out for new and interesting games to play with each other as well as the friends that frequently visit [...]
More lung death 4 comments
I’ve just spent the last hour and a half scrubbing down the wall behind our bed and the small walls that frame the door to our balcony in the spare room. It’s been raining here pretty much non-stop for the last week and as a result, our green wall-fungus has come back with a vengance. [...]
Fixing things take 2! 2 comments
After hours of fiddling, testing, playing, testing and finally giving in and asking for help, then more testing, playing and fiddling, I think I have finally figured out what went ‘wrong’. One of the websites I currently manage for my job runs oscommerce, an open source shopping-cart website system. A software package that is not [...]