We had a long day today, but we’ve still going out as we’ve been looking forward to the Reach To Teach party at Citizen Cain all week. More on that later. Jo is on her way over to our place right now. I’m excited to see her, as I haven’t seen her, or her husband, Range since before Chinese New Year.
This will also be one of our last evenings out before we leave on a three month journey through South East Asia which will eventually lead us back home for the first time in eighteen months. It’s hard to believe that we’ll be leaving in a few short weeks. I can’t wait to start traveling again and I’m really anxious to see my family and friends, but I’m also really going to miss our life here in Taiwan. I have mixed feelings about leaving. It always takes me a while to get settled into a place. Now that we have things set up the way we want them, it feels weird to be pulling up roots and leaving again. When we return to Taiwan, we will be looking for a new apartment and new jobs.
We’ve booked our return tickets back to Taiwan for the 1st of July. While we’re gone, Jo and Range will be doing us a huge favor by moving into our apartment and taking care of our things while we are gone. We are hoping that this arrangement suits them as much as it does us. Originally, we were going to try and sublet the apartment, but then Range phoned to ask if the apartment was available. They are still looking for an apartment in Taipei and using our place will give them some more time to find a place of their own. We’re quite happy that we will be leaving things in good hands.
In regards to my post this morning. I’ve recently discovered Digg. I’m not really sure exactly how it works, which is why I posted a short entry this morning. I wanted to see how it works. I’m still not really sure. It seems like a lot of trouble to me. Reporting the latest news and all, I guess I’m just not an avid news watcher. I think I’d rather let others do the ‘digging’.
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What about Digg seems like so much trouble? You just go there and see what sites are popular at any given time. I don’t really like digg that much, but it is useful for that.
I like Reddit.
I was just talking to Range and Jo about this last night and he explained how Digg is used by bloggers.
I think it’s an interesting website, but in regards to finding a story and submitting it, I found it to be a bit of a hassle. I just don’t want to spend the time on it. I get images of people sitting at their computers waiting for the latest breaking news in order to submit the story.
Yesterday morning that person was me. Like I mentioned, I wanted to see how it worked and the process of submitting a story took some time. I finally submitted another blogger’s story, which Range assured me was ok.
Really Mark, I am not a computer person at all. This is all very very new to me. So I feel like every step I take with my blog is a baby step. I don’t have any expertise or background experience to draw on. If you had told me that this time last year, I’d be blogging and talking about memediggers in a post, I would have laughed at you.
The whole point of starting this blog was to share my Asian life with my friends and family back home. Now it seems to have taken on a life of its own and I’m enjoying it immensely, but that also means I need to take the time to educate myself as well. Some of this stuff takes awhile for me to comprehend.
I will definitely check out Reddit. Thanks for the suggestion and the comment.
Mark,
Why do you like Reddit?
In Reddit you can push stories up and down. Now digg does the same thing, but reddit has a much more oldschool, community driven model than digg.
I like reddit a lot better than digg, but I still don’t waste any time on them anymore. Linkdigging or link finding is fun, but gets tedious after a while.
However, if you want to read community driven news, those sites are good because they push stories that other people have found interesting.