It's not all geekishness at Computex

Asia is gripped by World Cup Fever and while we were waiting to meet AMD's Mr Heye, we couldn't help noticing that a huge football was superimposed on the side of a building.

This Taiwanese beauty is sporting a little plastic hammer which she'll give away to anyone who shouts the acronym AMD loud enough. As Eva might say "Sheesh!". Who cares about plastic hammers? Nevertheless, the mostly male crowd were shouting for all they were worth in the hope that this princess might bestow her grace on the audience. As we're impartially nasty to both AMD and Intel, we felt we couldn't really join in the refrain.

In search of an elusive Via press conference we found ourselves in a place called New York New York which as we said yesterday has a plastic AMD Hammer placed on top of it. However, the young man pictured here is Huang, and he's a nice set of sculptures portraying the merger of technology and the world. He's something in common with the INQwell too - I'm from Aberdeen and the artist studied at RGU in Aberdeen too.

I liked this one. He said it portrays technology of the past, where information was relayed by packets attached to pigeons, rather than packets flying down broadband lines at indeterminate speeds and which sometimes don't coo at all. His web site is this site.

Tomorrow, the strange case of a blue lobster and why SIS lasses are dressed up as Greek maidens - if we figure that one out.

* THE HOTEL placed a note unde4r our door saying that the Old Taipei government is testing the anti air raid maneuvers tomorrow and we should "stay inside the hotel". Ooh…. err…