tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53630874503964981822012-02-17T09:34:50.201+08:00About Taiwan, FotoZon and lots of other stuffFotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-75725268301363980582012-01-10T23:20:00.003+08:002012-01-10T23:26:40.122+08:00

Hello All,Just a quick note to let you know that I have added "Meta Tags" for keywords and description to all fotozon home pages. Click here to edit your home page and add the meta tags. "What are Meta Tags" you ask? Well they are just some hidden tags in the header of most pages that tell the search engines something about your site. Up until now I have been generating those automatically

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-62139519534250860362011-12-07T09:49:00.004+08:002011-12-09T15:59:31.330+08:00

Wooden House in Taiwan Another great photo set by Pazza-Studio This month has been very busy as I install new servers and start up new web sites. What a world we live in! Every day, another project. I hope to hear from all of you and I wish you a very happy and blessed holiday season!All the Best, Keith

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Hello All.That Pazza Studios over in Taiwan is taking some really great shots.Also, a big shout out to Dennis - the best electrician in Edmonds, WA .Later,KJG

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Getting old is not fun. I've just turned 40 and I'm afraid I might be doing something wrong... Why is life so tough? There's all these trillions of dollars just floating around, why must I work so hard just to get a few thousand of them? Lately I've been interviewing with some companies to try and find a regular full time job with benefits, and it is probably just as well I didn't get the job

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Cool Apples. Back in the US of A.We are pleased to present the Fotozon "Premium Foto Pro Websites"! Our first customer Pazza Studio is online and ready as the first demo site. Check out his awesome studio shots including the one on the left there of the apples and bubbles set up.Be the best.jg

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Hello Everyone!Recently we have been monitoring the Taiwan Picture of the Day Candidates FlickR page. We are cleaning it up and eliminating a few of the extra entries. Please, if you are submitting photos to this group, make sure to include only your best shots of Taiwan so we can select them for the daily picture. We are currently in the process of further automation and editorial review.

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Just another manic Monday...Working now on a page full of nice cabinet pictures. Lucky for us we were able to upload all of those good looking pictures, but now we need a little nicer layout. If you have any ideas, let me know. Please let me know.

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Greetings!The Taiwan Daily Facebook App is up and running again. Now they have changed around their system and you don't have all those boxes in your profile page. It used to be that one of those boxes could show the Taiwan Daily Picture if you add it to your profile page. Now that part of their site has disappeared completely, so I had to redo the whole thing using their javascript sdk /

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Dear Folks,I recently set up a new facebook application to save your facebook links. Please add it and let me know if you have any trouble with it. This is important because facebook only displays your links 6 at a time now and it takes a long time to go through them if you have more than a dozen! Also, it is very difficult to capture the source html they are using, so I made it easy to copy

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Notice our New Header! I'm not sure what happened to the last one, it was somehow drastically reduced in size, but you miss it, here's a link to the general image:On FotoZon Pages, I added a new javascript feature to "listen" for the press of left and right arrow keys for navigation between pictures. This was a ridiculously easy to do and I should have done it earlier. I'm thinking about

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I just love making little improvements, so I can look at my fotos more easily on my web page. Why didn't I set this up before ? I used a really easy javascript to listen for the left/right arrows to be pushed and navigate forward or backwards through the pictures. Try out this car picture while looking at some shots from the Stanwood Car Show July 2010.For even more old car pictures, check out

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-23315963133018596712010-05-29T14:08:00.004+08:002010-05-29T14:15:04.286+08:00

Hey Everyone!I am back here in America and visiting family in the great Pacific Northwest. This view is of Lake Diablo up in the North Cascades Mountains on the way back from Eastern Washington.Not much doing here, just staying out of the rain and working on my personal Keith Grey BIO page on the ole JayData website. You never know what you may trawl up on the internet.Take it easy, All for NOW,

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Little Liu Chiu Island (小琉球) is South-West of Kaohsiung in the Taiwan straits. The very small island is easily reached by passenger ferry from Dong-Gang (東港 - East Harbor) . See Google Map.Freeway 3 is the easiest way to get down there. Just drive to the end and turn right. Turn left just before the big red bridge and park in one of the lots there next to the boats. We arrived just in time

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I am back in Taiwan now after being gone for almost a month back the USA. I was back there just in time to watch my 89 year old grandmother pass away after a fight with brain cancer. It was so sad. It sort of bothered me though that there was no real ceremony like the elaborate drawn out one they have here in Taiwan. I got to witness that earlier this year when my wife's grandmother passed

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To any readers following this blog, I have been busy recently with another trip back to the USA to witness the death of my grandmother. It was a sad experience. I sought solace in the woods around my family's compound in Northern Washington State. While there I discovered something on the settings of my Nikon D50 camera. Here is the first picture I took at this trail junction with automatic

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A new lens, the 10~20 mm Sigma. I It shoots so much wider than a regular lens. I call it "super wide". On a recent trip to Port Townsend USA, to visit my good friend Jim - Custom Instrument Maker, I came across this beauty and plunked down the coin to make it mine.A real estate agent's dream, an interrior lens to be used with shutter speeds as slow as 1/15th second. I hope to capture the

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It seems that in Taiwan, there is always construction going on. New roads are built, new houses, gigantic new concrete and steel buildings culminating with the Taipei 101 tower. What is it that causes such continuous construction? There seem to be plenty of abandoned old houses, and new ones are going up all the time. Leading some to conclude there is a serious housing bubble in Taiwan. It

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Taiwan ... and ... AustraliaThere seems to be an inevitable connection between Australia and Taiwan. I was reminded of that recently while reading the story about Clare Wang on the site of my favorite blogger from Taiwan who also happens to be from Australia! Maybe I'm also thinking of a local photographer from Australia or the website Taiwan in Australia that is a strong supporter of Taiwan

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-37645826648618225282009-03-17T16:33:00.005+08:002009-03-17T18:24:47.074+08:00

This is an awfully suspicious picture in my opinion. I mean look at the way the hand is gently pushing up from the bottom. "T.U." pretty much sums up where we are though huh? The thing that also strikes me is the change in direction in 1995. What happened back then? That's probably where the trouble started.What are these 2 little words that could kill Microsoft? Could they be "Net-Book"?

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Right up there with the ever popular "Cleaning the Fan" blog entry entry - this time it is cleaning up the balcony. I like to think of it as my "backyard". It is just outside of the kitchen. I know it doesn't look like much in this picture, but you should have seen it before. Dirt and grime was built up for years. I spent more than a whole morning scrubbing and even ran a small 1/8" water

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Since I first took a motorcycle trip around the island in 1998 and saw this place for the first time, it has always stood out as probably the most fantastic natural place in Taiwan. The Taroko Gorge (太魯閣) would be amazing enough, but the addition of the highway threaded through the vertical walls with many tunnels and cutouts just makes it all the more incredible. When I first rode through on my

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On the way to thesouth end of Sun Moon Lake, after the town of Shueili, ( 水里 ) there's a place called the "Snake Kiln". We've driven past it many times, but never stopped. This time we decided to stop the car and go see what it was all about.The Shueili Snake Kiln ( 水里蛇窑 ) gets its name from this long earthentunnel that serves as a kiln to make pottery. Many parts of this kilnwere

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In late July, my Dad took a break from making cabinets in Stanwood and we went to tour the LeMay car museum in Tacoma, WA. How appropriate (or ironic?) that I'm posting this just now as the giants from Detroit - GM, Ford and Chrysler are struggling to survive and are begging the government for bailout money. The auto maker's glory days of the past may be gone, but thanks to museums like this

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Last month in early August, I visited my old school - the University of Washington in Seattle while my wife went shopping in the nearby shopping "village". It was great fun to stroll down memory lane and see all the changes and the classic old building that remain the same.They are remodeling my old hall of economics.Now - Why didn't they have that sign therewhen I was going to school!?!Classic

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While I was back in the states, my brother built a table for a "real" photographer in exchange for some professional shots of their work at the Grey's cabinet shop in Stanwood. I was gone the shoot, but I heard all about the experience and how the photographer spent about two hours lining up each shot with the lights and everything just so! Any little reflection or bright spots and he'd have to

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A few pictures from our recent trip back the USA. You can't really tell from the picture -, but I'm driving asmall tractor here and the kids are in the back in a trailer.Quack Quack - Some ducks on Lake Crescent.Camping out on the Pacific Ocean .The Beach at Sunset - look at all those drift logs.This guy apparently really likes wine!

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Well, here I am back in Taiwan after 35 days in the USA. It was a glorious vacation filled with beautiful scenery, clean air and lots of partying. Of course with flying, eating out and partying, there is always a heavy tax to pay. Now I'm happy to say that I'm back to work full time, saving money and working on this ole blog again.During my vacation, Craig took over editorial duties at the

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How time flies! It's been just a little more than a year since we launched the Taiwan Picture of the Day on the FotoZon web site. In one year, a lot of interesting photos have been submitted. Many web sites, blogs and personal pages have put the picture online.Among the developments over the past year:New Archive Section - I used a fancy "Light Room" javascript and a little programming to

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Because I was born as a pig (in the Chinese 12 animal symbols) I had a chance to ride in the wedding cars today! The normal guy who drives and arranged the borrowed cars was born a mouse so according to today's date, it was not good for him to drive. Don't ask me why. One of the older uncles told me I could probably spend a lifetime trying to figure out all the Chinese customs and still not

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Truth is, I'm not such a great blogger. I don't write that often, and when I finally do sit down to type some thoughts in, they probably aren't even that interesting! Well, actually I normally just run out of time to do anything here. Between work, wife and Two Kids, by the time I get a few minutes of quiet time, I'm ready to hit the hay. I'm not even finding enough time to go out on photo

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A while ago we took a trip to the Taichung Art Museum on Wu-Chuan Road. My son is into drawing so I figured he would enjoy the trip and he did. Besides the art hanging on the wall, there was an impressive amount of "Digital Art" which mostly consists of short movies and photos projected on the wall. My kid's favorite part of all was the "movable building" where you stand in front of a laser

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Last weekend we spent some time walking around the Feng-Chia Night Market in Taichung, Taiwan on Saturday night. What a difference from our little night market in Yuanlin! We've been there before a few times, but this time we really worked our way through all the different alleys and bowels of the market. Of course it was packed and people were everywhere. Most of the vendors had lines at

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In mid 2006, after I lost my job of seven years as a programmer, we decided to sell our house and move to Taiwan for a few years. At the time, our friends thought we were crazy and kept telling us that we wouldn't be able to afford a new place when we returned back to Seattle. Before we actually listed our house, I found another job that let me work from home by telecommuting. It was great

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Holy Smokes! Has it really been more than a month since I've written here? I am really falling down on my blogging duties.. Well, between two birthday's in the family, everyone caught the cold, busy at work and everything else, I guess this blog was the last thing in line. For the month of February during Chinese New Year's we took a trip up to LuShan Hot Springs Town off the Central Cross

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-7042350609869081352008-02-03T22:13:00.000+08:002008-12-12T15:00:33.693+08:00

I completed a JavaScript widget for the Taiwan Pic of the Day this weekend. With this option, webmasters and blogsite owners can display not only the image itself, but also the title and description along with a link directly to the full size image. Check it out and let me know if you use it for your site or have any comments.Best Wishes for a Happy Chinese New Year!Joe

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Well, it is now easier than ever for members of FlickR to add some pictures to the Taiwan Picture of the Day due to the new group we've created. Thanks to the idea from Craig, now it is easy to add pictures to the group to be considered for the Taiwan Daily Pic. It is quite a bit of work to keep the project maintained and make sure there is a fresh picture everyday to display on the various

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Well, we're back from Japan for a quick vacation in January for one week. We had an absolutely fabulous time! It's amazing to know that Japan is supposedly not experiencing the best economy now. Everything seemed to be fine, and it is a great country. There were so many well dressed Japanese running around in their suits so busy - it's hard to imagine they've been in a pro-longed economic

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Another year in the bag and its been an eventful one! I suppose the obvious thing is to list all the accomplishments and events for the year. However, first I will dedicate this post to our trusty guard man - Mr. Jhang - in the picture in the left. He'll be "forced" into retirement at the end of this year because the building we live in wants to go with a youth movement - like under 55 years

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-68006273937371967952007-12-15T22:32:00.000+08:002008-12-12T15:00:34.357+08:00

I'm feeling older these days... like the world has passed me by. All sorts of new-fangled web applications are coming out these days, and I'm not sure if I can keep up. Recently I was selected on Flickr to have one of my photos featured in "Schmaps". This new-fangled web site has all kinds of stuff on it with a mish-mash of maps and photos and events and who knows what.. Nevertheless, I'm

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I got to find a new investment strategy, because this buying lottery tickets is not working out so well. Yesterday, five lucky people in Taiwan split the massive jackpot of 1.2 Billion NT Dollars. This little gambler in the picture still has hope that his ticket will win. Of course, our tickets were not even close.I had quite a lot of fun taking pictures at the luckiest lottery shop in our

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-47877136448272505882007-12-01T18:04:00.000+08:002008-12-12T15:00:35.189+08:00

I'm happy to say I finished the application for Facebook and it seems to be working great. Check it out here. It didn't actually take too long to install the API kit, and get a basic application up and running, however it took about a day to figure out how to automate adding the new pictures everyday. I'm excited now that its done and I am going to start working on fixing up a "Google Gadget"

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-56881842694815862552007-11-28T22:16:00.000+08:002007-12-01T16:18:37.954+08:00

I like to remark to my compatriots back in the USA that it's "getting cold" over here in Taiwan - you know - like below 70 F ! Still, I think they fail to understand that without any heaters, when you're riding around on a motor scooter, it's friggin cold man!Anyways, I suppose it has been a fair bit of time since I last wrote here in my blog, and I apologize to my faithful readers that it has

Fotozonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181694049321554803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363087450396498182.post-48046307334760924422007-11-14T23:30:00.000+08:002007-11-15T00:37:52.662+08:00

Not a lot to report these days, as I have actually been super busy at my day job. The company I work for now merged one of their divisions with the old company I used to work for up until July of last year. So, I've been called upon to do a lot of extra programming tasks that had not been done since I left. Its almost like I went on vacation for 14 months, and nobody covered for me. Better

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That's me in the picture checking my investments... Not really, it's just for effect because there weren't really many people at the market center. I was told that there aren't nearly as many investors visiting these days because who wants to invest in this scary volatile market? Obviously they are much smarter than me, because while I own no Taiwanese stocks directly (I think some mutual

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In keeping with Today's Selection of Scooter Balloons for Taiwan Picture of the Day I have dedicated this entry to the trip to the Jong Shin Village in Nantou County, Taiwan. To get there is an easy exit from Freeway #3 just south of Taichung and slightly north of Nantou.The Gate welcomes you to Jong Shin VillageThis tree lined street is not something you would excpect to see in Taiwan.Houses on

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October is winding down. It's been a busy month -- just like all the other months. Red Sox won the world series in impressive fashion blowing away the up and coming Rockies. The season for the NBA is almost here giving me some TV to watch in the morning in Taiwan instead of working.I'm happy to report that recently I convinced Craig to feature me on his "Featured Photographer" series. That

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Here are some links for recent developments and coverage on the FotoZon.com Site.Recently, a web site devoted to cultural ties between Australia and Taiwan did a piece on our web site entitled Brilliant Window on Brilliant Taiwan. I must admit the article is very flattering and paints a great picture of our web site and the progress we have made so far. It even looks like a real news piece with

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Just south of Sun Moon Lake on the road to Jade Mountain National park is the town of Shuei-Li. North of Shueili on a lightly travelled road is the terminus of the Ji-Ji railroad line formerly used during the Japanese occupation for logging. Originally we had planned to drive up to Yu-Shan national park, however after taking one look at the dark menacing clouds up that way, we took a left not

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No, I'm not a millionaire, not even close! . . . In fact it's probably even pathetic to point this out, however here goes... We cracked a million in our FotoZon.com Alexa Ranking! Now this Alexa rating tool is fairly accurate for the top web sites, but it is becoming less and less important for the rest of us because fewer people are using the "Alexa Toolbar" than ever these days. I suspect

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I just like these funny shop signs. The Buty Shop and the PP Shop are located in our town of Yuanlin, Taiwan. I was taking the picture of the Buty shop and a fellow was asking me if it was my shop. I told him no, I was just taking the picture because of the funny name.I need to get back out and take some more pictures, that is really the funnest part of the fotozon web site so far. The ankle

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As September draws to a close, I'm reminded of the many good times and big events that have happened during the month of September. In Taiwan, we celebrated the Moon Festival, and also remember with sadness the victims of 9.11 Terrorist Strike and also the 9.21 JiJi Earthquake. To me, September is always bittersweet, as the weather turns a little cooler and we're reminded of the sweet days

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Perhaps you noticed the random image to the Right - with its newly improved title and link that brings you to the picture so you can find it again? This is my latest and greatest invention. The "Random Image Wizard" can be used to create a specialized custom size and code for your web site or blog to display a random image from the FotoZon archives. Thanks to some javascript programming, there

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I got Featured!I'm a featured photographer on the Taiwan Photographer's Blog! If you haven't visited the site yet, go check it out and you will also see some other great photographers living in Taiwan - some of whom even take better pictures than I do ..I've also published an article on the English in Taiwan Web Site about Shopping in Taiwan. If you haven't read this one either, go check it out

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I've noticed a lot of photographers like to use frames to show off their images and enhance them somewhat. They can be added to the image inside photo-shop or other image editing software.In order to make FotoZon photo viewing pages even better, I added the option to add frames to all the pictures in the photo albums. There are three layers of frames, inner, middle and outer for those special

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Fan Cleaning Day!It's fan cleaning day... Just as an example of how dirty the air can be over here in Taiwan, check out our fan! The dust and junk collects during the hot months due to the constant blowing of the fan during the hot months...This has got to be the most boring post ever, so I will keep it short... notice the picture to the left with my reflection in the fan..Every 2 or 3 months, I

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After being scorched in the hot southern sun in Kenting, it was a welcome respite to go under water for a while at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium on the way out of town. It is one of the best aquariums I've been to, and the large fish tank is very impressive. There are several tubes to walk under the water and look out at the fish.Besides the photos already on my web site:

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It's so wonderful to go visit the beach. It was so nice, we decided to stay one extra night, and I'm glad we did because the next day was superb for taking photos.For this shot, I believe it was under-exposed by about -0.7 to darken up the foreground and bring out the subtle colors in the setting sun. The sun hadn't actually set yet, it was hiding behind some dark clouds. It seems rare in

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It sure is tough getting old! Ok, I'm only in the mid-thirties, but I found out the hard way I should be more careful running around with the teenagers and 20 somethings playing basketball... Going for the ball almost at the curb, I stopped short and the ankle bent as the basketball shoes sucked themselves to the pavement. Unfortunately it bent much farther over than every before. Usually I

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I had quite a wonderful time in Taichung taking some pictures of the Ghost Money burning during the ghost month of August~September. This particular shot is outside a KTV in Taichung, very near the Mitsukoshi Department store. If you notice a trend of a lot of pictures near the department store, it is no coincidence -- My Wife loves shopping!! Still, I had a great time with these guys and

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Posting photos on Flickr is a lot of fun. What makes it fun is the feedback you get from other users that tells you you people are interested and looking at your stuff. It sort of galls me sometimes though that when I try to take a real nice looking picture of scenery or something and it sort of just sits there! On the other hand, posts involving funny English signs are practically an instant

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After finishing up some long over-due work for my normal day job, here I am back working on the Fotozon Web site . The weather is just awful this weekend with non-stop rain, sot it is a good chance to do some inside work anyways. Today, I added some code for other web sites to display a random picture on their pages. Here is an example of that code here:FotoZon Random ImageNotice how the

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Well, I'm back from a one month vacation in the USA. It's a funny feeling coming back to Taiwan this time, because I'm already used to living here and there is not as much new stuff to discover or look forward to. It's combined with that dreaded feeling of getting back to work after being on vacation. So much for dinners out, hanging with friends and family and relaxing. Back to the the daily

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Photo of the sunny weather we've been enjoying recently in Taiwan. It's been hot, so we are spending the time near the air conditioner. I'm just about to head out for a month on vacation. See you all later~!Some sites I may want to keep track of while I am gone. Craig FergesonDavid ReidTravis BickleMichael TurtonI'm too lazy to sign up for one of those bookmarking sites, I guess I'll just have

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Today is Saturday. All the kids and teachers are in school today because they missed going to school on Monday due to the Dragon Boat Festival holiday on Tuesday. What kind of a vacation day is that when you have to make it up on Saturday anyway? Well, I've been pretty busy with my normal job programming in Cold Fusion, so not a lot to report on the Fotozon site. I did however make a

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We Recently made a trip to Taichung. My wife went inside the department store, while I went outside and took some pictures. This one is probably my best shot of the evening, but many are my favorites.Here are a few other pictures that are noteworthy from the trip.The traffic cop directs traffic amid a stream of cars.A Ghost Money Burner in the Alley-Way.All For Now...Joseph

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I just got hooked up with this new FTTB "Fiber To the Building" internet serrice from Chung Hua Telecom, the Taiwan national Telephone Company - and it is SWEET!!! See my bandwidth reading on the right side there!Hey, I'm starting to like this blogger!. I can see why there are so many people using it all the time. It is very impressive with all the editing tools and such. For example, this

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Welcome to the first post on the blog from FotoZonThis picture on the left is of the Dried SquidsThe Following was originally posted onto my Biography page, however I've moved it here now that I've decided to just use "Blogger" to keep track of all the foto-happenings.June 15, 2007 - Work continues on the FotoZon web site. Recently I have been learning CSS so I can apply a little bit of style to

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