A while back I made a webpage dedicated to the Chinese song “The Moon Represents My Heart.” I also put online ten different renditions of this song in MP3 format. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to compare them. Aware that the Chinese words on the page would soon have Baidu’s searchbot on my case, I did my best to keep it off my site with my robots.txt file. Looks like that was completely futile.…
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Apr
2005
2005
Feeds
Yay! Now there’s a Sinosplice page just for feeds! This serves two purposes:
You can check for new updates to any of the (semi-)frequently updated sections of this site in one place.
You can see all the Sinosplice feeds (RSS/Atom) you can subscribe to in one place.
I expect that this page may become more important in the future, if I’m able to do some of the other things I want to do….
Thanks to Roddy for hooking me …
27
Apr
2005
2005
Re-enabling the comments…
I just found out a little while ago that my blog’s comment script is not working. (From my little sister, of all people!) I had no idea it wasn’t working. I’ve been too busy with work these past few days to notice that kind of thing, although I did notice the comments had died down quite a bit.
It looks like maybe my host disabled the script (Roddy says they tend to do that, without warning).
I e-mailed …
19
Apr
2005
2005
Oops
Sinosplice has been offline for the past few days for reasons entirely unrelated to hosting or blocking.
The other night right before I went to bed a thought popped into my head: doesn’t my domain name expire sometime in April? I better check on that.
I did a WHOIS lookup on sinosplice.com. Sure enough, it expired the very next day. Furthermore, my registrar was still the much-loathed iPowerweb.com. I vowed to myself last year to transfer my domain name …
08
Apr
2005
2005
Stage 1 of the Makeovers Complete
I recently redesigned a few pages of Sinosplice:
The root page is now Flash-less, with tons of text links emphasizing all the non-blog content I’ve got online. (Take a look; there may be some stuff you don’t know about.)
Chinese Study Book Reviews has been given new life. There are new reviews, more guest reviews, categories, comment function* for each review, RSS feed, etc. Such is the power of CMS technology. Inbound links are appreciated; I’m going to try to
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18
Mar
2005
2005
Reload!
I recently fixed some of this page’s HTML and CSS to be more standards compliant. The creation of this website was a self-taught process, coded entirely manually, and involved no shortage of trial-and-error experimentation. When I find out the proper way to do something, though, I try to update my code. I finally got around to it. If you’re a regular reader the CSS file is probably cached on your computer, so you’ll need to reload to get it to …
14
Mar
2005
2005
Google-Friendlier
I just took some suggestions from a post on Scribbling.net to “help the Googlebot understand my website.” That’s why the title of each blog entry is now linked to, rather than having the “Link” link at the end of each entry.
Why? Well, Google associates the text you use to link to entries with the content of the links’ destinations. For example, if everyone with a website linked the word crap to microsoft.com, microsoft.com would become the number one search …
12
Mar
2005
2005
Document Contains No Data
“Document Contains No Data.” That’s the message I keep getting lately when I try to access my website directly. Those who live in the PRC know that this is Chinese for “this website is being blocked/filtered.”
I have been unable to access my e-mail for about 24 hours now.
I hate to do it, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to remove a recent post or at least some of its comments. Being blocked is just too inconvenient.
I’m …
02
Mar
2005
2005
CBL Upgrade #2
Thanks to Eden Li, the China Blog List has gotten a little more impressive. He kindly devoted his PHP skills to building upon the enhancements John B started back in 2003. (Speaking of John B, take a look at the revamp he’s given his blog.)
The list now has its own RSS feed. If you like to check out the new China blogs that appear on the list, this is for you. In addition, the submission form …
26
Feb
2005
2005
Junk Food Review 2
Over the years, one of the most popular features on Sinosplice has been the Junk Food Review that Wilson and I did at ZUCC in 2002. There have been calls for an encore, but since Wilson went back to San Francisco it’s been a little hard to coordinate. Well, the trip to Taipei was a perfect opportunity. Here it is:
The new design is sort of an experimental “comic book feel” I came up with. The …
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