I upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3 lately. Since then, my RSS feed doesn’t seem to be working. I’ve been pretty busy at work lately, so I won’t have time to try to fix it until next week. I’m running the Feedburner plugin. Anyone know anything about this?
Gotta work all weekend, and then the May holiday starts on Tuesday. I am so looking forward to it…
Update: OK, I think I fixed the feed. Please let me know if I’m wrong.…
I am very impressed with the Explore Shanghai subway map. It features:
That last feature is really killer. It even …
Have you ever noticed the effect of a piece of paper in your hand when you take a taxi?
If you jump in a taxi empty-handed, the driver will turn around and ask you where you’re going, listen attentively, perhaps ask a question or two to clarify, and then you’re off.
If you have a little piece of paper in your hand, however, it’s a different story. No matter how clearly you tell the driver your destination, he will fixate …
Bazza, a ChinesePod user notorious for his online study diligence, recently posted a really cool note: A Guide to Chinese Firefox Menus.
Here’s a sample:
This is really useful for people like me who use both English and Chinese versions of the software regularly. Typically the situation is that I can use the software, but I can never remember what the various functions and features are called in Chinese. A post like this makes it a lot easier to …
Today in my syntax class the teacher was trying to think of a sample sentence which involved a lot of verbs in a sequence. She started off with “I went to Beijing…” but was having trouble thinking of a sufficiently long sentence.
I piped up with, “I went to Beijing to meet a guy to buy a gun to kill a man.” Some people laughed.
The teacher responded, “No, that’s too violent.”
One of my classmates asked, “Are you making …
What is the message in this ad for Shanghai’s chic dining/shopping area, Xintiandi (新天地)?
I’m almost certainly reading too much into it, but this is what I see:
To the Chinese women: “Hey, pretty, young, fashionable Shanghainese women! Come to Xintiandi, the place to be seen. Not only will men ogle you, but lots of handsome, single foreign men will ogle you! If you’re crazy enough not to want that, there are also Chinese men, most of whom
We’ve been working on the new version of ChinesePod for so damn long… and it has finally launched. We are all breathing a sigh of relief.
I have to say (as an “unbiased” commentator)… the new ChinesePod is a huge improvement in a lot of ways.
One of the coolest new features is that each user has his own account and custom profile, and they can interact much more easily.
We’re still squashing bugs and updating content, but …
Shortly after I arrived in China and observed the deaf community in Hangzhou, a beautiful thought struck me. Deaf people communicate in an entirely different way. If all the deaf people in the world use sign language, they could all learn the same sign language and communicate with each other regardless of race or nationality. No barriers. A truly international language!
But alas, that was not to be. You see, sign language doesn’t just “substitute for” or “imitate” human …
So what does Easter mean in Shanghai? An outdoor Pizza Hut promotion in Xujiahui!
(That big egg is a kind of “rock-climbing” challenge, apparently.)
I didn’t stick around for the activity they were cooking up, but it looks like it is possibly inspired by the saga of Little Bunny Foo Foo?…
A while back I posted a story I titled “Betrayal.” I visited Yunnan and promised some friends that I would send them a photo when I returned to Hangzhou. But I never did. What’s more, I discarded the address so that I never could.
Well, it turns out I got some of those facts wrong. I moved to Shanghai in early 2004. I have moved twice since then. I am now in the apartment where I will begin …
John has lived in China for
11.5
years. He is a linguist focused on SLA and tech.
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