I’m no fan of posts about the Top 5 thisses or Top 10 thats, but even I can hold out against the tide for so long.
The Top 5 Top 5 Blog Posts EVAR!

The Recycled - this list will be comprised of only of points that you’ve seen in other lists, almost definitely in the same [...]

For the first time in a few weeks, I have a little bit of free-time, and I don’t feel like going outside, either. Typhoons have that effect on me.
I’ve been thinking about pruning my blog. This blog is a mish-mash of personal entries, ideas I’ve been thinking about, news, and other things. [...]

Writing online for the past year and a half or so has introduced me to a lot of new friends. But beyond that, it’s also had a certain way of dredging up the past.

A while back, I noticed that Forumosa, the largest community site for foreigners in Taiwan, had a new guide for Taiwan. It’s called Taiwanease: The Knowledge, and it’s a wiki, which means that anybody can add articles to it and edit it. This sort of site usually takes a lot of work to [...]

I’ve really neglected iDrone, recently. Well, we all have. John and I have been busy with work, and Matt has been busy designing standards for storage cryptography. In fact, Matt is now the acting chair of IEEE’s Security in Storage Workgroup (SISWG). Very cool. The newest member of our tech-blogging [...]

Tonight, I was chatting with one of my friends, and he pointed out that my posting frequency has declined. It’s true. I used to have all kinds of things I wanted to write about, and I thought they would be useful for other people. I wrote a lot. Recently, there [...]

Wordpress 2.1 is out, and I’ve just installed it. It’s actually a much bigger update than I had realized. Here are the biggest changes I’ve noticed:

The visual editor is far better than it was before. You can also tab back and forth between the WYSIWYG editor and the code very easily.
There’s a [...]

Just as happened earlier this year, I’ve been chain-blogged again! Chain blog posts are like chain emails, except more social and not so annoying. This time, Range tagged me. The topic of this one is “Five things that you didn’t know about me”. Here goes:

Recently, I’ve seen a huge increase in the number of complimentary comments from Chinese people in my comment moderation queue. About 95% of these comments start with

写的不错，

and then go on to talk about something else. At first glance I felt pretty good, until I realized that they are ALL spam! They invariably [...]

In the past all of the email I’ve gotten from Chinese people regarding my blog has been extremely positive, but last night, I received the first critical one.
I am not understand why you like writing the chinese character speech. Is very not colloquial, stiff, foreigner translate to the chinese from the english not seeming to [...]