As I’ve written before, getting a debit card can be a serious dilemma for long-term foreign residents in Taiwan. Today, I’m happy to write that I’ve found a work-around for one of my previous debit card needs.
Recharging a Skype account is doable, even if you initially funded the account with an international [...]

Light-bot is a pretty fun, if simple flash game that I wrote about last year. At that time, I realized that by giving the robot recursive solutions, it was possible to reduce the commands needed to win from the previous bests of 160 or so down to 132.
Recently, Mark Beyers has found an even [...]

Once again, I find myself looking back on a year past, remembering what I’ve done and evaluating the changes in my life. A year really is an arbitrary measurement, but it’s a familiar one and one that’s easy to use as a metric.
Last New Year’s
I don’t think I really did any sort of systematic [...]

I caught this off of John Biesnecker’s recently resurrected blog*.

This is pretty impressive. He definitely got a boost from his post-hockey drinking, though.
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If only I had a real kitchen, I’d definitely try this.
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