Archive for August, 2006
Sex and Shanghai
It’s been a hotly debated subject on many Chinese forums/blogs these last few days. Sex and Shanghai is a blog by a supposedly mid-30s English teacher in Shanghai narrating his conquests. The blog is unfortunately no longer accessible to the public, so I am not going to post the link to his blog.
Why is it [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2006 under China, Lifestyle, Web and IT.
Comments: 3
Ubuntu - the start (post 1)
Last night I started installing Ubuntu on my laptop. Ubuntu is a Linux distro (I only heard of Red Hat before) that is supposed to be very stable and quite easy to use. I had downloaded the disk image of the installation CD a few days ago, but only went to get blank CDs from [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2006 under Ubuntu, Web and IT.
Comments: 3
Mail problems
Since yesterday, having some strange problems with my mails. I had 2 documents scanned and sent to me via email, but despite giving them 2 email addresses, I never received the documents.
Today I noticed that I could not send via my gmail account when using Ms Outlook. It’s really strange. The password is right, the [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2006 under Web and IT.
Comments: none
French post found on the net (in French obviously)
Sorry for those who cannot understand French. It’s about a French girl who was wondering why her fellow countrymen were behaving more and more like assholes, and what she chose from other people’s comments as representing the best answer to that query. Pertinent question that resulted in a rather funny answer. You need to know [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2006 under Lifestyle, Web and IT.
Comments: 3
喜福来 or the Chinese equivalent of “A prendre ou a laisser”
When I was back home, with my sister I used to watch a French show called “A prendre ou a laisser” ( French for “Take it or leave it”. I am sure there’s a British / American version also). Tonight was the first time I came aross the equivalent Chinese program. I have wondered if [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2006 under Leisure.
Comments: 1
Political Correctness strikes again - on Tom & Jerry
I thought the Political Correctness (PC) that has erupted during the 80s had slowed down and people had got their senses back. But today I found the following article in Yahoo. When will people stop dissecting the joys of our youth? Children books, animated cartoons and what not … We didn’t become a [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2006 under Leisure.
Comments: none
Started to watch “The L word”
Last week my housemate lent me some DVDs to watch when I am bored. Tonight I am watching the pilot episode of “The L word”. Now, all the DVDs have already been transferred to a DVD pouch (small bag), so I have no idea about the movies except for their titles. But on this [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2006 under Leisure, Lifestyle.
Comments: 2
Trinity Blood
I just watched the final (?) episode of Trinity Blood, a Japanese animated series. It is a tale of humans and vampires living on Earth, on the brink of killing each other for supremacy. The good guys are from the Vatican, so no prize in guessing that the film has many references to Christianism. The [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2006 under Leisure.
Comments: none
Sleepless in Shanghai
Have not been able to find sleep tonight, although very tired.:gosleep: I have spent some time turning over in my bed, then updated my Fantasy Football team (BTW, if any Mauritians know of a league for Mauritian managers, let me know the code to join :thanks:)
Why cannot sleep? I don’t know if it’s the heat, [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2006 under China, Work.
Comments: 2
Domain registration password lost
Aaargh! As I said earlier, the email address that I used before for all my correspondence has been terminated without notice, forcing me to use other email addresses instead. Well, this week I tried to log on to the domain registration company to update my details, but realised I’ve forgotten my password. I had [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2006 under Web and IT.
Comments: 2