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A cool software offer and web site

Friday, July 11, 2008

When I got back from the Olympic Torch parade route here in Harbin, I had some time to read emails, write this blog, etc.
UPDATE: I found an interesting RSS misleading entry (http://jayaprakashkv.blogspot.com/2008/07/free-windows-vista-sp1-adobe-photoshop.html) on a free version of Vista (legal illegal), a free version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 (again legal! illegal), and a free illegal license code for [...]

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The Olympic Torch in Harbin

Friday, July 11, 2008

Today, the Olympic Torch relay came to Harbin. I found out about this a week ago, while planning a short vacation trip to Chang Baishan (“Long White Mountain”). I found a web site with information about cities near to Chang Baishan, and it was showing a zigzag route for something (small symbols on the map [...]

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A google experimental room

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Google has a new service called “Lively“, so I thought I’d try it out. I first searched for rooms tagged with “Chinese”, to see if there might be language practice opportunities, etc. I found an interesting room here http://www.lively.com/dr?rid=5591446072241343503.
However, I’ve discovered that Foreign languages (UTF-8 encoding) don’t work, or at least didn’t work for me!
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Site maintenance notice 3

Thursday, July 3, 2008

(apparently in a long series of notices…)
I’ve changed the permalinks structure, and also changed the “about” page (now it says “Why I’m in China”). I think just changing  things has rewritten several key fields in the database. Hopefully this will also allow comments again, etc.
** EDIT **
Well, comments are working for me.

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