Evening

As I shut down my computer before I left for London last month, I got a message embedded in the window that suggested I download ‘vital updates’ and that Windows would shut down once they are completed. Now, as default, I have automatic updates switched off due to the fact that my OS is [...]

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Whenever Brits ask me where I am from, and in Taiwan they always do, I say ‘London’; not because it’s true, but because it is easier to say than the truth. The truth is that I spent some of my formative years in a picturesque farmhouse of a quaint British village in the Midlands, [...]

Dying

I have always considered myself to be immortal and indestructable, a hangover from adolescance that has persisted for a decade or two longer than it should. This illusion was strengthened a while ago when I first moved into my house. I was standing on my new sofa, hanging a new picture on my [...]