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Monthly Archives: May 2007

New look, class competitions

Thursday, May 24, 2007

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欢迎关林来！With the latest release of Wordpress (the blogging software that shows this site), the current theme (look) has broken, so I’ve switched to a more generic one. I really liked the rotating head pictures … Maybe it won’t take too long to fix…
Today we had class competitions (bisai). It was Classes A, A+, [...]

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Warranty Periods

Thursday, May 17, 2007

My birthday’s coming up, and I was playing at this site www.timeanddate.com
It gave me the following chart:
Start date: Tuesday, May xx, 19xx at 6:05:00 AM
Round number of seconds later
1,000,000,000 seconds later: Friday, February 4, 1983 at 7:51:40 AM
1,500,000,000 seconds later: Wednesday, December 9, 1998 at 8:45:00 AM
2,000,000,000 seconds later: Monday, October 13, 2014 at [...]

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Google gadgets

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Google has an interesting “personal” page where you can add tabs and arrange small sections on each tab page. It also lets you create your own “gadgets” (the name they use for each publishing square.
Anyway, I made up a simple Chinese vocab list. Perhaps it will let me remember words that aren’t in my [...]

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Too much homework – a new perspective

Thursday, May 10, 2007

I was reading this on Yahoo Groups Imagestreaming forum. I recommend it as a good place for a lot of creative ideas and ways to stretch your mental outlook.
Note, I’ve edited the excerpt to correct grammar and spelling issues.

Working hard (processing much information) creates a mental overwhelm, and often we try to disperse this energy [...]

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Midterms over, May 1st week is here

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

In China, May 1 through 7th is a national holiday/. Virtually everyone goes on holiday, banks are closed for the week, etc. “Private” enterprise items, stores, etc. are still open.
Last friday I had my yuedu (reading) mid-term, and I recieved an 83. Not that great, I thought. I was the last one to finish the [...]

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