Archive for May, 2008

blog, china, nanjing, personal

Twitter me this

This post most likely provides ample evidence that I was not swallowed by the earth or buried in rubble. Unfortunately, many other people have. Tens of thousands of people across southwest China remained buried beneath rubble on Tuesday as rescue workers struggled to reach areas cut off by a powerful earthquake that has left thousands [...]

personal

Boring Life Update

To me Phenom Penh will always be a bit more than just another developing city, for it is here that I received some of the best news of the year, possibly the last 5 years. During the months of January and February of this year I was bouncing around South East Asia bagging the countries [...]

blog

Site Validation

Unfortunately, I just discovered that this site appears absolutely fubar in IE7. It looks fine in Firefox (which is what you should be using anyway :-P) but the layout is terribly mangled in other browsers. This is very embarrassing. I’ll try to get everything validated ASAP. *update* I spent the whole afternoon twiddling with this [...]

china, sports

Everest in Flames

The good kind. The Olympic flame has reached the top of the world. Live television footage showed a Chinese mountaineering team holding up a specially designed torch along with Chinese and Olympic flags Thursday on the top of Mount Everest. I’m quite impressed by the feat. Achieving a summit is admirable in itself, but managing [...]

blog, china, entertainment

U2′s “One” – Still relevant? Relevant to China?

I’m probably the last person who should be writing about music. I haven’t followed any sort of artist since…well, I’ve never followed any artist. New music? Ha, I can’t remember any album releases since Matt Good’s Beautiful Midnight back in 1999. Actually, I don’t like writing about music as I feel that some of the [...]

blog, personal

Wow, you still have a website?

About a month ago (March?) I realized that it had been roughly a year since I had posted on, or done anything with, my website…except pay hosting and domain fees! Since I have some time at the moment and I’m also feeling in a somewhat creative mood, I mused that it would be a good [...]

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