Archive for June, 2008

personal, photography, travel

Nepal Photography IV

I’ve just completed uploading and tagging the second to last installment (and easily the best) of photos from Nepal.  I’ve also corrected some errors in the gallery viewer and re-uploaded the previous photo installment from Everest Base Camp which went missing from some unknown reason. Like I said in a previous post, some of these [...]

china, nanjing, politics

Obama in Nanjing

Obama’s smiling face graced the pages of a number of local dailies on display in my local Suguo CVS this morning. I’ll admit that I only maintain a passive, layman following of US presidential politics. As a non-eligible voter my opinion amounts to squat and this probably influences the amount of time I dedicate to [...]

china, politics

“On this spot in 1989 nothing happened here”

Well, not quite as the writers of Family Guy so sarcastically wrote into one episode. The date almost slipped my mind. I suggest a meal at the Peking Duck for a fuller, bolder experience. Nearly 20 years later it seems so far away, so distant. But not at all forgotten. At least not for me. [...]

blog, china, nanjing

Google Search Keywords and Me

I was debating whether or not to share this tidbit of inside information but have since decided that it is now post worthy. This change is probably not only because I find this particular item slightly amusing and maybe even a little pitiful also because I think it highlights how much information can be gathered [...]

china, environment, nanjing, urban planning

Public Transit in Nanjing

After several weeks of lecturing regarding the financial and time benefits of utilizing the Nanjing transit system, I managed to convince a friend to step on one of the buses….and the verdict is…”Ah, it wasn’t that bad!”Exactly. It never will cease to amaze me how few foreigners take advantage of this system and rely completely [...]

personal, photography, travel

Nepal Photography III

I’ve placed several more base camp photo groups in the gallery. These ones will take you right up and into the Nepalese Base Camp. I was extremely lucky to have this opportunity as it is not common to have expeditions in camp during this time, nor is it common for trekkers to be allowed into [...]

china, nanjing, urban planning

Top Ten Buildings in Nanjing

This will be the first entry posted suing scribefire, a nifty Firefox plugin which allows direct postings from within Firefox – thus avoiding the somewhat annoying process of logging into my CMS to make an entry (one is aware of living in a “now” generation when the simple process of logging into a website is [...]

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