Google and censorship are not friends
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Chinese Culture, Living in China, Tech/Site Issues, Travel | 1 Comment »It looks like Google might be packing up and moving on, having decided that it can't work within the framework of China's Golden Shield project (otherwise, and more famously, known as the Great Firewall of China, or the GFW). ...
Ringing in the Year of the Mood Swing in Xi’an
Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in Tech/Site Issues, Travel | 2 Comments »Laura and I arrived in Xi'an and checked into our hostel. The central heating was on and it was positively toasty in there (take this from someone who's spent the last several months in three or more layers). ...
Spam nonsense
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Posted in Tech/Site Issues | Comments OffI've been getting about one spam registration a week; a user registers to comment with a spam-obvious name and a gmail account. As such, I've decided to nip this problem in the bud and installed a better spam-catching registration ...