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A while back I reviewed Kang-i Sun Chang's (孫康宜) book 走出白色恐怖 ( Farewell to the White Terror ). At least one commenter mentioned interes...

Got this in my e-mail today: 二、停止電話撥接上網服務(計中) 由於本校電話撥接上網（Remote Dial In Service）使用率極低，而且此項上網設備維護及零件更新不易，故2007年6月1日起計中停止電話撥接上網服務，原使用者請改以學校寬頻、...

This showed up in my inbox yesterday: 您的信件 收件者: s94xxxx@thu.edu.tw 主旨: FENM Reminder 傳送時間: 06/09/06 06:55:05 PM 在 05/20/07 10:59:11 PM...

I dreamt that I was at a literature conference in England and that the whole Q & A part of one session was devoted to someone reading a ...

I mentioned a while back what appeared to be the beginnings of a trend in using translation software to complete English writing assignment...

I remember checking CNN's website 8 years ago (almost to the day) and feeling sick when I read about the shootings at Columbine. Now thi...

I'm almost finished a revision of what has felt like an interminable chapter--and for part of that translated the following lesson from ...

I woke up early this morning, then fell asleep again and dreamed that I was at a used book sale at a university in the States. I got the id...

The Taichung City Government's website reports here that a Hong Kong investor, Richard Li, is interested in developing the old Shuinan ...

(Don't ask me what that title's supposed to mean--I have no idea!) My colleague and fellow disser-commiserator John just sent me a c...

Had a nice time in Oberlin, despite all the warnings we got prior to going about the terrible weather in the Cleveland area. (Saw this igloo...

Here's one reason why...

Our home has been without Internet service for the past few days (lousy phone company), but we haven't had time to call them to find out...

Dunkin' Donuts has arrived in Taiwan . (And I just went to Mr. Mister Donut for the first time last Sunday. I'm so out of style.)...

We had some time off yesterday, so we took the High-Speed Rail (HSR) to Taipei yesterday. We could only get a one-way trip, and we could onl...

To finish my dissertation before my fortieth birthday. (Let's see, that gives me about 31,449,600 seconds, give or take.)

It was almost like a birthday present (except that I paid for them...). This afternoon I got a box from Labyrinth Books, containing the four...

It's the week that all the first-year students take their English oral final exams here. Walking around the building, you can see studen...

(I gotta work on writing better titles...) I just read Christopher Phelps 's (or is it Christopher Phelps'?) column in the Chronicle...