As Microsoft’s October 20th Black-screen-of-death deadline passes, I’m reminded of an old post I wrote about 2 years ago when I first started this whole blog. I’m gonna repost it here, as it seems somewhat relevant to the situation. Buying real software in China is still way expensive for the average Chinese user.

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I’ve been trying to put my finger on it for months. John McCain reminds me of someone.
And then today it hit me. Lon Chaney, from Phantom of the Opera.
It’s uncanny!

UPDATE: In related news… At the end of the debate, McCain apparently turned into a zombie:

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I thought I’d post this here just in case some of you here in China haven’t seen it yet — or in case you weren’t sure where you could watch it. This one had more fireworks, and McCain did do a decent job on offense.
But as with the other debates, Obama was cool as […]

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I’ve been using Genius software on my macbook for some time now. For studying Japanese Kanji, this looks like the way to go. I recently came across a yahoo group which provides some pre-made genius vocab lists which correspond to James Heisig’s book Remembering the Kanji:
Download Remembering the Kanji Genius word list (357kb)
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