Not long ago I announced the first party organized by a group of young people in Hangzhou determined to make some positive changes in Hangzhou’s dance music scene. Well, it turns out the first party was quite a success! The bar was pretty packed. There were lots of foreigners, but lots of Chinese as well (and even a good number of cute girls). Ever since the first party, people have been showing up at the bar where it was held …
09
Dec
2003
2003
Chinese Fonts
I just put up a new section for Chinese fonts. Feel free to download away. I’ve been using Chinese Windows for over two years, so if you have any questions about installing them on a machine running English Windows, I’m sorry, but I can’t help you. I’m curious, though. Do they work fine in English Windows if you have Chinese IME installed?
I also took the opportunity to play around with CSS a little on the new fonts page, …
08
Dec
2003
2003
Favicons
Personally, I think “favicon” is a really stupid name, but that’s what Microsoft came up with. A favicon is a tiny little icon (.ICO file) which goes on your bookmark (favorites) list in your browser when you bookmark a website. I’m sure you’ve seen them. Yahoo has one. Google has one. Most major sites have one. This site even has one. If a site doesn’t have one, IE users will just see 
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Several people have asked me how I …
07
Dec
2003
2003
浩室音乐
你知道“浩室”（House）音乐是什么吗？好像在杭州这种音乐越来越流行，但是人人并不一定知道是什么。我也不是很了解这种音乐，不过我知道一些。
浩室是一种舞曲音乐（这里有更丰富的解释），比杭州大多数的蹦迪音乐轻松一些。杭州蹦迪喜欢放的是pop trance，在国外已经很土的一种舞曲音乐。
杭州早就有一家酒吧叫“浩室就把”，但里面放的音乐不是浩室音乐。今年南山路上开了一个“绝对浩室”迪吧。我只去过一次，但我觉得放的音乐很不错，挺有个性。的确是正宗浩室。下面“Launch”party也是浩室。很好跳的。
如果你没听过浩室音乐的话，我建议你听听。不过其实光听也不够。应该在蹦迪或者酒吧里享受着气氛听。而且真的要欣赏这种音乐的话，得跳舞。
07
Dec
2003
2003
Ichi
I just watched the movie Ichi the Killer tonight with some of my ZUCC co-workers. Carl and Alf have been itching to get me to watch that movie ever since Carl borrowed my DVD collection while I was in Japan this past August. I told them I hadn’t seen Ichi the Killer, and they misremembered my mention of the movie as a recommendation. Anyway, they watched it and were psychologically scarred, so they wanted to return the favor.
The …
05
Dec
2003
2003
Asia Weblog Awards
What could be geekier than blogging? Blogging about blogging, perhaps. (Yes, I’m guilty.) But if you want to get even geekier? Starting an award system for blogs, with votes and promotion, and all that stuff. OK, it’s geeky but it’s kinda nice. And Phil put a fair amount of work into it, so let’s give it some attention.
I speak, of course, of the Asia Weblog Awards over at Flyingchair.net. You can nominate blogs and vote for blogs, and …
02
Dec
2003
2003
Making the Band
Recently my co-worker Greg (of Sinobling) developed a really fun activity for English class. A lot of the other teachers here (including me) have tried out his activity as well, and it has gotten top scores all around. It’s been weeks and he hasn’t blogged about it. I guess maybe describing an TEFL activity doesn’t lend itself well to Greg’s awesome powers of humor.
The concept is that you break the class into groups of 4-6 people each and …
01
Dec
2003
2003
Hong Kong Bloggers
I don’t regularly read Hong Kong blogs, so I was in for a surprise recently when I visited Flyingchair and took a good look at his blog links. There are so many new ones! Flyingchair is pretty much the gatekeeper of HK blogs, it would seem. You may want to check out the Hong Kong blogs in the China Blog List to see the new additions.
Also, the HK bloggers had a pretty big face-to-face meeting of bloggers recently. Kinda …
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