It might be fun to have an RPG game app for your mobile phone where the game map is the real world in real-time. You have to travel in real life to get to different places within the game. Going to a real-world location lets you play at that location in the game. For example, […]
Destination: Southwest Virginia
Far away from all the high-powered politics and traffic jams of Northern Virginia, the people of Southwest Virginia live a much simpler life. They pause to listen to the rustle of leaves or the murmur of a nearby stream. Days are spent with books, or tubing on the New River, or putting in long shifts […]
Beer review sites
In 1979, there were only 89 breweries in the United States. Beer had been in steady decline in since its heyday in the 19th century. However, beer has been making a dramatic comeback in recent years. There are now over 6,000 breweries in the United States alone. Combine that with all the breweries in the […]
Language Translation Methods
Over 16 years ago, I wrote a Chinese-English translator in PHP. I learned a lot from the project (including a lot of Chinese slang). It was frustrating getting the encoding conversions right, but the end result was an understandable translation. I stopped working on it when Google rolled out their own translator, which appeared […]
Destination: Taitung, Taiwan
I visited Taitung in the southeast part of Taiwan in 2004. There was an aboriginal culture demonstration. Up in the mountains, there were Taiwan High Mountain tea and paragliding. There was even a dairy farm which, being on a sub-tropical island in Asia was a unique experience. Evaporation mist above the river. Taiwan aborigines setting up […]
Google Life
As Google grows, the products they produce are continually changing my life by changing how I organize and gather information. The next decade should be even more exciting, as Google and its parent company Alphabet continue to push their boundaries into new fields such as home automation, artificial intelligence, and life sciences. Here is a […]