A few quick random thoughts on the positives and negatives of being in China:
On Shopping and Buying Dongxi:
Like the rest of the world, I’m in love with dirt cheap Chinese products. A dollar for a DVD, 30 cents for a beer, 15 cents for a lamb kebab - all the ingredients for budget entertainment China […]

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I’m sad to say that there is yet another flurry of articles floating around the blogosphere about racism and race relations in China.
These last few have been spurred on by a series of very real incidents, the most really real of which is really really disappointing to see. And alarming. And way fucked […]

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Who remembers altavista?
Not a real useful search engine these days. Though I do like their baidu-like mp3 search and babelfish translating tool.
But it seems software giant Microsoft is jumping headfirst into the translating pool, leaving Altavista’s tiny little Babelfish with hardly a drop of water to swim in, save for possibly the crack between Bill […]

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For anyone out there who is trying to master Japanese characters, here is a table in image format of the hiragana and katakana tables that you can use for your study.
But personally, I prefer something that challenges my memory a little more.
So I used this character annotation method that I spoke of before […]

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