Archive for November, 2008

ShiLin Shopping Area – Taipei, Taiwan

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Shi Lin Shopping Area - Taipei, Taiwan

The Shilin Night Market is the biggest Night Market in Taipei. It sells a tempting array of regional foods, clothing, and souvenirs. All sorts of shops, pub, restaurants, and night spots are located nearby. The snacks on offer include congee, sausages, dumplings, seafood and shaved-ice sweets.

SHOPPING

• Sundry goods & Snacks

Shilin Night Market

Shi Lin Shopping Area Map - Taipei, Taiwan

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

• CiCheng Temple

84, Danan Rd., Shilin District, Taipei Tel: (02)2882-1 083

TianMu Shopping Area – Taipei, Taiwan

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Tianmu Shopping Area, Taipei Taiwan

TianMu is a district with an exotic apperance. Here you can find a large selection of international pubs, boutiques, fine cuisine restaurants and cafes.

SHOPPING

• International Cuisine

Tianrnu N./E./W. Rd. and Zhongshan N. Rd., Sec. 7

• Boutiques

Dexing E. Rd.

• Garments

Zhongshan N. Rd., Sec. 7

Tianmu shopping area Map, Taipei Taiwan

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

• PUBS

Tianmu E. Rd. and Zhongcheng Rd.

• Tianmu Park

Taipei 101 Documentary – Lots Of Facts And Details About The World’s Current Tallest Building

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Here is a documentary on the Taipei 101 building, in Taipei, Taiwan. It is currently the tallest building in the world. This documentary of the Taipei 101 building will pretty detail every aspect of the planning, and construction of this incredible structure. Taipei 101 is just only one of many things that has put Taiwan on the map.

Now Taipei 101 is currently the world’s tallest building / structure, but that will be changing within a year, as Dubai is currently constructing a structure that is much taller.

Canada Is Not Immune to the Financial Meltdown in the United States

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Corporate layoff - outplacement

Although Canada has a strong and number one ranked banking system, that doesn’t mean that Canada’s economy is immune to the influence of the U.S financial system meltdown and the United States going down the road towards recession.

With many Canadian businesses either medium or large having most of their business coming from American consumers and companies alike, this economic turmoil that the U.S is going through is currently impacting Canadian business in a big way, and will continue to impact Canadian businesses for the next year or so.

Recent Reports Show Canada Has The World’s Soundest Banking System

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

The Bank of Canada building engraving - Canada's stable Banking System A recent report shows that Canada has the world’s most stable banking system, unlike Canada’s neighbors to the south, the United States currently ranks 40.  The U.S has suffered a financial industry, stock market collapse due to de-regulations which allowed their banks to do anything they want, including greedy un-scrupulous lending practices.

Click here to see “Maxed Out” the documentary to see what happened in the United States to their financial system.

Read the article below.

1and1 Raises Domain Name Prices in November, 2008

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

1and1 raises domain name pricesCurrently .com, .net, .us, .org, .info, .name, and .biz domains cost me $6.99 USD. However, this coming November which is only a few days away, 1and1 will be raising .com, .net, .us, .org, .info, .name, and .biz domain prices to $8.99 per year. That is a $2 difference, quite a bit…28.75% increase to be exact.

Windows Vista Sucks! I’m Switching Back To Windows XP On My Acer 3680-2682 Laptop

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Windows Vista SucksAfter working with Windows Vista for the past little while, I’m pretty much fed up, this was after installing Vista SP1. I read about some of the improvements in Windows Vista with SP1 on the internet, so I decided to installed it, but as described below it didn’t quite work out.