Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Had to do it

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

After upgrading WordPress, I decided I couldn't stand the old design any longer. I clobbered it. This theme from the WordPress Theme Viewer is called ChinaRed. In the next year or two, I'll start to redesign this blog again. Like I have time... I thought about going naked on this blog and ...

How has it come to this?

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

How is it that the person who wrote one of my favorite blog posts of all time on the issues of positive thinking and positive association, has become the victim of threats that cross all sorts of lines. Whatever the details on this huge controversy are, the bottom line is ...

Spam is Pure EvilѢ

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Comment spam for me has been overwhelming the past few months, so much so that I just started finally neglecting my own blog. Fine - you (insert colorful expletive here)s win. (You have no idea how many times I had to rewrite that line in an attempt to self-censor myself. ...

Exporting Censorship

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

I've never been one to believe it's better to do business in China or anywhere else by bowing to their demands for censorship and oppression than to not do so at all. Apparently many in the UK's Parliment agree: UK MPs slam 'immoral' Microsoft, Google, Yahoo stance THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS committee in ...

Learning Mandarin via Podcasts

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

This is a great idea, beautifully implemented: ChinesePod I like the fact that they've broken down the podcasts into newbie, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. I especially like their business model: Distribute the podcasts for free, and charge for the additional learning materials. They have chosen the blog format to present the material, and ...