Archive for 'Web and IT'
Forum moderator
I have been elevated to the rank of moderator in a forum (no name dropping).
I have been chatting in an English forum about Beijing since the end of last year, and today one of the admin there gave me mod rights to one section of the forum. Guess I’ll have [...]
Posted: May 30th, 2007 under China, Leisure, Web and IT.
Comments: 2
Juliette je t’aime
Haha, no love declaration here.
“Juliette je t’aime” is the French name of the manga series めぞん一刻, aka Maison Ikkoku. I have just finished downloading the 96 episodes of the series (Japanese OV, with Chinese subtitles). When I was way younger, I used to watch it on Club Dorothee (for those old enough to know what [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2007 under Leisure, Web and IT.
Comments: 2
For the readers from home
Akoz mo fin truv dimun so sit bez sansure parski zot fin koz kitsoz ki otorit isi pa kontan, ek dan sertin plas dan la sin mo sit pa aksesib, mo fin desid pu protez sertin post dan le fitir, kum sa ban otorit pa koner ki mo fine zaza. Si zot truv post ek [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2007 under China, Leisure, Lifestyle, Mauritius, Web and IT.
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End of anonymity for Chinese blog users
According to an article in China Daily’s website at the end of last year, the Chinese bloggers are facing a possible end to their anonymity. The government’s body says it’s “to standardize and develop its blog industry”, while the pros say “online libel and slander originates from the poison pens of cowards who hide behind [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2007 under China, Lifestyle, Web and IT.
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First rant of the year
:swear::swear::swear::swear::swear::swear:
I just had my laptop repaired for about 1,000rmb. So frigging expensive to have the part where the power cord gets connected to the laptop fixed. And the HP repair centre took one whole week to get it fixed. No need to say that the repair guys were trying to get me to repair some [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2007 under China, Web and IT.
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Moving to Chaoyang
I’m moving to Shuduizi 水碓子, in Chaoyang district of Beijing at the end of next week, as my current rent agreement is coming to an end, and I have to move. Although the rent is about the same, I have to pay additional expense in terms of paying the connection fee for internet (about RMB200), [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2007 under China, Housing, Leisure, Web and IT.
Comments: 1
Limited internet
Since the earthquakes that happened earlier in Taiwan, the internet in mainland China has suffered largely.
I was online chatting with someone in Fujian province when the earthquake happened. My friend suddenly went “Earthquake! Earthquake!” and fled away from the computer. I was rather surprised and left a message asking if she was ok. Some [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2006 under China, Web and IT.
Comments: 3
Laptop problems
In addition to the power cable being very loosely fixed to my laptop, meaning I have to keep the battery on all the time, my laptop has given me the BSOD (that stands for Blue Screen Of Death) twice during this month…. I haven’t had it since I had the whole WinXP reinstalled around May, [...]
Posted: December 13th, 2006 under Web and IT.
Comments: 2
Back
I haven’t been online for some time, so didn’t update the blog, and then I managed to crash it when I was trying to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress. Anyway, I seem to have finally managed to get the blog back to the former state, and will try upgrading again later. To Joseph, [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2006 under Web and IT.
Comments: none
Frontend access error
This morning, I wanted to access my website to update/modify some links on the main site when I discovered I could not access the control panel. I am not talking of the blog’s control panel, it’s different. For some unknown reason, I got the error message as per picture below. (I modified the web address [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2006 under Web and IT.
Comments: 3