Monthly Archives: May 2006

Post 9/11 Blues

Watch this video – it’s hip. Yes it’s perfectly acceptable for me to use the term hip. Yes, I know it’s 2006. Yes, “hip” is not “hip”. But let me tell you, as hip goes, hip is a pretty hip word. So there. And it works backwards too…. if you don’t like it… pih, what …

May 29, 2006
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South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

I finished reading South of the Border, West of the Sun this morning. What a fantastic book. It was loaned to me with high expectations, as Rick touted it as an amazing book from one of his favourite authors. I had heard of Murakami’s Norwegian Wood before, but had not had opportunity to read anything …

May 28, 2006
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Bye Bye Blogger

In my ongoing quest to find additional reasons to sit at my computer, as well as my rather successful attempts at procrastinating what I REALLY should be doing on here – I’ve decided to switch how I publish my blog – and in the process do a complete redesign. The redesign is actually a product …

May 27, 2006
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Chairman Mee-ow!

I guess a bunch of Chinese foreign students are upset over the parody their New Zealand uni newpaper did on Chairman Mao (cover left) and communist China. As such, there’ve been numerous protests from the Chinese students exclaiming they’ve been insulted to their core by such blatant defialment of their once great leader. In near …

May 25, 2006
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Shifting Commitments

It seems no matter how hard I try, I can’t stay on task with any one thing for long. It’s troubling, and completely the product of these wonderful things: No Attention Span Too many hobbies Horrible procrastination I’ll get deeply into something for a few days (or weeks) and then it shifts to a new …

May 23, 2006
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vLog.03: Field Trip!

So here it is, a bit of a wait for it, but vBlog numero three! For this entry I decided to turn my camera on those that know the most about life – kids, roughly five hundred of them to be non-exact. My primary school recently invited me to accompany them on a field trip …

May 22, 2006
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Us Against Them

This is certainly not a new topic for China bloggers, but I just finished reading an article on ESWN entitled “How I Was A Chinese Traitor” and it brought back memories of my own similar experience in Beijing. For those in too much of a hurry to click and check out the article – essentially …

May 21, 2006
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AdNon-Sense

I’ve been in a bit of an e-mail exchange with Google AdSense lately. They wrote to inform me that one of my pages is in violation of their policies. I’ll be the first to admit, I may have skimmed that policy/terms of agreement bit a tad quickly before clicking the little “I Agree To The …

May 19, 2006
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Windows Dead Mail

That’s it, I give up. I’ve stuck with Hotmail since like ’97 or something… tao_monkey acidhartha thehumanaught… Me and Hotmail, we’ve had some good times, we have. But I’m tired of having to battle with the commies to access my e-mail. I mean, I’m not exactly a political dissident, an active activist, or anything… Besides, …

May 18, 2006
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Da Hei Shan 大黑山

Last week, as I’ve mentioned, was May Holiday. This is a very popular time for people in China to travel – as many have a week long vacation. The “many” however did not include Maggie. As I didn’t really feel like trekkin’ around China on my own, and am still slaving over this new Web …

May 9, 2006
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War On Fat: Part III – Good Habits

So, about a week after going to war… how are things? Well… I nixed jogging. At least in the everyday way. With some advice from friends who seem to have an uncanny amount of knowledge about this stuff, I’ve decided to take things a bit slower than I initially intended. I was all gungho about …

May 9, 2006
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