Obama loves his Blockberry

I don’t have the strength or wherewithal to blog about yet another block, so instead of talking about the blocked/not-blocked status of Google today in the PRC, I thought I’d go instead with a bit of levity. Fortunately China’s shanzhai culture never leaves a man wanting for a chuckle, and it is especially amusing when …

Green Dam Youth Escort: A Summary of the Holey Harlot

Not since the release of Windows Vista has such a poorly designed, expensively developed, non-mandatory but strongly encouraged, scenically sounding piece of software created such a buzz as has Green Dam Youth Escort. The new was-said-to-be-mandatory-but-now-isn’t-and-maybe-never-was software, produced for the Chinese Government as a way to protect the world’s most massive population from the evils …

Blog redesign, take 5-ish

As will be apparent to everyone reading this, sans feed readers, the blog is undergoing a bit of reconstructive surgery. Please bear with me as I juggle the redesign of the site with “real” work. I had nothing against the last design (despite it borrowing 5 bucks and not paying it back), but after having …