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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Cloned Puppies

Saturday, January 31, 2009

During Winter break, I’ve been studying with a teacher 4 days a week during January. Additionally, I’ve been watching some movies in Chinese, generally in the evening before going to bed. My theory is that if I hear a lot of Chinese and go to bed with that the last thing I do (rather than [...]

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A little ink, using Live Writer

Thursday, January 29, 2009

However, as you can see, the writing isn’t nearly as good as on the tablet. The resolution isn’t as good (using the small 4”x6” tablet that I picked up in the US last summer), so it’s hard to write smoothly and legibly. Ask my daughter what the Chinese says
This also tests out [...]

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Hardware Migration Update 1

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Hopefully there won’t be more than one update!
The first site migration failed to migrate any of the email aliases (names), so I wasn’t getting any email to panlogicsoftware.com that originated from outside of the box.
To make it a little less obvious, I did get emails that the new hardware box sends out by itself. Since [...]

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Migrated to new hardware

Friday, January 23, 2009

The site, which includes both this blog, and my site with Chinese texts for download (http://china.panlogicsoftware.com/ebooks.html) and other stuff, has been sucessfully moved to new hardware.
It’s been working for a couple hours now, so hopefully within 48 hours (max time for DNS record propogation), it will be acessable by everyone.
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A New Blogging Tool

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

I just downloaded and installed Windows Live Writer. Although the name suggests that it would only work with the “Windows Live” blogging service (similar to Wordpress.com), it actually can connect with a large number of blogging engines.
This means that I can write blog articles on my desktop without connecting to the web immediately. It provides [...]

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