Well, we’re all moved in to our new apartment. After a few hiccups and finally having to agree to having a rent increase after six months (I knew that 1,000 yuan thing was too good to be true), we moved in Thursday. Last night shortly before meeting Cam and Maeve for some dinner in our [...]
Continuing the conversation of an earlier post about cheap labour in developing countries, I wanted to post a video I found on my friend Rick’s (highly improved!) site - Panda Passport.
Essentially the video shows how employees are exploited by a factory in Shenzhen, China, that produce goods for more developed nations - in this case, [...]
It is never far from my mind that I should perhaps watch what I say on my site about China. When I first arrived in this country little more than a year ago and befriended Mask of China blogger Derrick, I had him instill a bit of fear about who might be watching me. Though [...]
So I was just reading my buddy Chris’ blog and realized it’s all stopped. The maddening fireworks going off every five minutes have finally ceased. I won’t say that I’ll miss their fight-or-flight instinct inducing bangs, but I do have a bit of that sense you get as a really great party is dying down.
It [...]
Right… so I FINALLY get off my ass and write Google Adsense an e-mail about why my Google Ads haven’t been working, they sort it out and I suddenly realize that I was contemplating boycotting Google for its giving in to the truth editing, ‘masses protecting’ Chinese government.
THEN I realize that Blogger, the site that [...]
