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Archive for July, 2008

Traveling with/through my grandfather definitely lets me feel the good end of the guanxi stick.

— July 17th, 2008 11:54 am

Off to Kyoto for ling workshop: http://tinyurl.com/5vr53b

— July 17th, 2008 5:02 am

@condimentality You really should end all your recipes with “at the Lundberg estate”. You’ve been warned.

— July 16th, 2008 8:10 am

I learned tonight that Tokyo has the greatest number of tweets per 24 hours of any city… more than #2 (San Fran) + #3 (NYC) combined. Wow.

— July 15th, 2008 2:29 pm

Going to @tokyo2point0 tonight to hear about Twitter Japan and Goo.

— July 15th, 2008 7:24 am

First “surface mail” package from Taiwan arrived.

— July 15th, 2008 5:07 am

@mwieg 紅燒豆腐 hóngshāo dòufǔ

— July 15th, 2008 1:32 am

Looking at Tokyo apartment listings

— July 14th, 2008 2:35 pm

Doing your Taiwan Fulbright taxes

Monday, July 14th, 2008

So you received a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in Taiwan. Congratulations! And they’re even going to pay you! Great! But if they’re paying you, you’ll have to pay taxes… so here’s my guide to doing your Taiwan Fulbright English Teaching Assistant taxes.

Note: Many of the considerations here are specific to Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETA’s) in Taiwan. If this exact grant doesn’t apply to you, you may be better off simply taking a look at the IRS’s guide for Fulbrighters and also the Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad. I am not a Certified Public Accountant, tax advisor, nor Enrolled Agent1 so your mileage may vary. Consider yourself warned.

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  1. Highest (coolness of title)/(actual coolness of the job) ratio ever. 

Back from shopping at Lazona (mall in 川崎)… huge muji right next to huge uniqlo.

— July 14th, 2008 7:29 am

New Blog Post: Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.0 http://tinyurl.com/59wrsd

— July 13th, 2008 3:18 pm

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 2.0

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Well, it’s been a while since I updated my plugin YARPP—in my humble opinion the best related posts plugin for WordPress. ^^ Today I release version 2.0, incorporating a number of important requests and bug fixes:

  • New algorithm which considers tags and categories, by frequent request
  • Order by score, date, or title, by request
  • Excluding certain tags or categories, by request
  • Sample output displayed in the options screen
  • Bugfix: an excerpt length bug
  • Bugfix: now compatible with the following plugins:
    • diggZEt
    • WP-Syntax
    • Viper’s Video Quicktags
    • WP-CodeBox
    • WP shortcodes

Check out the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin page on this site, the page on wordpress.org, or download it directly now!

@mitchoyoshitaka Correction: Since when could you say “be gangster about”?

— July 13th, 2008 8:08 am

“I’m pretty gangster about dinner time” -Lynette Clemetson. Since when does “gangster about” mean “into”, “pro-“, “strict”, etc.?

— July 13th, 2008 8:07 am

Got my idea for a killer iPhone app… just don’t know if I have the skillz.

— July 13th, 2008 7:28 am

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