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Monthly Archives: July 2007

A new bank, here’s my passwords.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

I set up a new bank account today, with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Turns out, it’s one of the two largest banks in China, about equal in size with “Bank of China”. (Not sure I have the name right).
But, BoC is different in each city, and they charge a fee if [...]

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RSS saves time, delivers humor

Saturday, July 7, 2007

I use an RSS reader from www.rssowl.org called “RssOwl”. I use the beta 6 (current) version. It hasn’t had any bugs pop up yet in a couple months..
Anyway, it saves a lot of time, because it will poll all my “feeds” (subscriptions) in the background, and I can read them when I want.
I especially [...]

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A Brief moment in time

Friday, July 6, 2007

OK, so here’s an update on my life, (presumably) for my family. I don’t have a clue who actually reads these things…
I finished my finals on Tuesday. I took the full two hours, almost everyone else finished in an hour. That’s not bad, actually. At least they gave everyone two hours! haha.
Final scores [...]

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There’s two of me!

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

I responded to a post on Chinese-Forums about northern china study locations. The originator of the post is named “Stephan”, but it’s not me.
He wrote me personally to thank me, and gave me a link to his web site. He’s got a great gallery of photos, too. Site is at http://www.stephaninchina.com

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Finals over, what to do…

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

With finals done, I’ve got time to catch up on a few projects this week. Here’s a list of things I “must” get done
1) A web migration project. Moving a site into Joomla. I’m learning Joomla as part of this process, which for me, is usually the easiest way to pick up new [...]

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