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Graham asked, some time ago, for a bit of a profile. Here it is.

I'm currently employed by the Taipei Language Institute, Kaohsiung Center as an English instructor, co-manager of the Foreign Language Department, and English language consultant for the Chinese Language Department. Basically, I teach English, hire and fire teachers, and answer English language email.

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[scott] *choochoo*
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[steve] Thanks i am fine
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[federkicco] I have no mic on this pc.. I'm listening to your conversation! I hope to join your conversation team soon

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[scott] Here's the URL for the podcasting class at TUJ - http://btmm0371.blogspot.com/
[scott] links can be found to the student podcasts from there.
[scott] so far - they've only done self-intros - more to come..
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[scott] step a little closer to the microphone Ratna, please
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[Foobar] hello. it seems that the "Listen Live" link isnt working...

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[18:06:57] Graham Stanley:hi everyone
[18:07:33] jimmy :ha
[18:07:39] patrick :hey
[18:07:42] jimmy :hi everyone
[18:07:56] nicolyon2 :hi
[18:07:58] jimmy :sorry for the disrupting chat
[18:07:58] ?? :HI
[18:08:41] Graham Stanley :that's ok
[18:09:00] Graham Stanley :Do you like animals?
[18:09:01] jimmy dice:i can hear you miko
[18:09:21] ?? :yes
[18:09:45] jimmy :UME
[18:09:45] ?? :ume
[18:10:07] Graham Stanley :ume in English?
[18:10:12] jimmy dice:i think it has no meaning
[18:10:17] jimmy dice:as i can see in the dictionary
[18:10:27] ?? :???
[18:10:37] jimmy dice:i have an Japanese - english dictionary

In todays skype cast, we had a conversation about fashion; I came in pretty late. During some speculations about young people being much aware of current fashion trends in clothing, and a world wide alikeness of clothes with some recent shopping experiences from different cities, I saw a parallel chat started in the text chat room, about some issues on the new playstation commercial (being accused of racism). And then, we tuned in on what's trendy and fashion in the gadget world, exemplified by the iPod hype, with Levi's jeans made for wearing your iPod, Nike running shoes with a training program for the iPod. We then turned the scope of our conversation from clothes to more generally speaking, electronic gadgets and the fascination of "wearables", containers, protections and extra add-ons for iPods & other mp3 player types, and the functionality issues (or lack of same).

Hi, folks. Just can't stop joining blog networks. Looking forward to exploring this site more.

I created a little screencast today, for how to get into skypecast. Although it is in Russian, I am going to publish it here - perhaps it helps to spread the word also in the Russian speaking world!

My Russian slideshow about Skypecast

http://www.slidestory.com/lg_maxie

just trying this out for the first time