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coperion class

May. 12th, 2006 | 09:56 am

this is the book i'm using for my tue/thur business english class i have a nice group of students and can enjoy tcpmp movies on my palm in the taxi there and back, so what a nice escape from Xin Jie Kou.

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Multi-Media Photo Update

Apr. 30th, 2006 | 08:43 am
music: Ken Burn's Jazz - Charlie Parker



here are the dvds for sale downstairs, but I have to walk a little to get there, everything is partitioned and closed off to keep the bad people out, or perharps these are eruvs.� The boy shows that the pile of bricks has been reduced in size, there is an inverse relationship such that a decrease in the brick pile size evinces an increase in the level of completed construction.� Did I mention that they recylce bricks and wood from the shantys they frequently demolish here?� Or that manual labor is more common than wrecking balls in my neighborhood?� I spent an hour watching a wrecking ball in Kunming once, I think.� How about those large construction cranes in Beijing and Jerusalem.� On Attenborough last night via Animal Planet he was talking about urban animals like rats and monkeys in India and south africa and bears and moose in anchorage, alaska.� He said by 2050, more people will live in cities than live on earth today.� No wonder we have instant nostalgia, it's a response to the worsening of things at an increasing rate.� The kid in the blue jacket, though you can't tell, is holding a paper newspaper, how convenient, no recharging the batteries. And I was like, paper-wow. Digital ink and all that E-paper . . . and then I remembered, the Shanghai Daily and China Daily aren't exactly, well you know The Financial Times, (which is a pay e-edition, I used to get the headlines, but I think I quit), yeah so that's why I rss, I don't read Chinese, though it's better than my Greek, and almost certainly slightly outperforms my Hebrew. Still am not through Uncle Tom's Cabinpublic domain ebook. The enewspapers just come in such smaller chunks.

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My blogging landscape

Apr. 10th, 2006 | 05:45 pm

  • http://www.livejournal.com/ This is the host for my blog, it has its limitations for free accounts, but it got me started writing. In particular I am limited in the ways that I can change the look of my blog, like I can't add any static links in my left navigation column or a rss of my del.icio.us links.
  • http://www.geocities.com I've been with geocities since 1996, before the dot.com bubble burst. It's free hosting. That's where I stick a simple frame page that I sometimes point people to instead of the blog. http://www.geocities.com/paynito/ It seems that they've removed ftp access from free accounts, I used to use it for file storage and transfer between computers. Of course now we have easier tools like a 1 gig sd card and
  • File Storage: http://briefcase.yahoo.com and I love the gspace firefox extension that makes it easy to use your gmail account for file storage. Just stick that on the computers you use regularly.
  • Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger, right? I don't live in the us so I miss out on alot of corporate propaganda that might remind me of my operating system's pet name. But I don't enjoy working on my win2k office machine near as much. I love exposé and that I can type "optione+e" to make a é, and can type ñ and ó. I have no idea other than that the alt key and some numbers are involved how to do this on windows, is it keycaps? My mother toungue is Spanglish, so these letters are important. Apple must understand since they live in California. When I stick my mouse to the top right corner of the desktop I can see all the windows I have open, it's faster than alt+tab, really.
  • firefox it definitely deserves its own bullet point. Flock got me started blogging, but I quickly came back to firefox. It's the best. camino is cute, but I love the firefox extensions.
  • del.icio.us I've got 435 bookmarks on del.icio.us right now. I would have gone crazy sticking those into folders in my bookmarks menu. I can bookmark anything that I ever think I might want to read or reference again. This is the can't miss part of web 2.0 for me. Oh, yeah, I can access my bookmarks from any computer anytime.
  • Photos. Loved flickr, but kind of only your most recent 200 photos are easily available on the free account, so now I'm using zooomr^3. Both services have desktop applications that make it fast and easy to upload my photos, I can upload to flickr from inside iphoto. Much better than Yahoo! Photos. So after the upload is done I can view the pic and stick it into livejournal, with Qumana this step is also drag and drop.
  • Writing the blog entries. Today I'm using Qumana. I also use pocketlj on my palm Tungsten E and Phoenix 1.9.4 OSX on my lombard. I have used avantblog for my blogspot page, but blogspot is mostly blocked in China.
  • To high to get over it yeah, yeah. The great firewall of china is penetrable using proxys from http://www.peacefire.org/. So that's how I can see seditious sites like blogspot or the electronic freedom foundation, it might actually have been the eff's blogger's guide that turned me on to the proxy.
  • Isnip, this is a multi-clip clipboard for OSX so I can get several links at once from firefox to stick into my blogpost instead of one at a time.
  • ok, that's my blogging landscape. I was going to say stuff about cultural geography and not speaking the local languange so well and self expression or other such stuff. I hope I can win the contest. I'm still a ways away from 20 entries, but Qumana really is powerul and a joy to use.
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