Tag Archives: tech

Gaming In A Strange Land

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Meg

I’m really excited to be working with the CN Reviews team, joining Elliot Ng, David Feng, Min Guo and Kai Pan. CNReviews is a thoughtful discussion on tech, travel, trends, the China blogosphere, and the crazy adventures when East meets … Continue reading →

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Illiterate At Best

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Meg

I’ve hit a frustrating plateau with my Chinese-speaking. When I speak, I give the tones a good shot, and hope for the best. If I can’t get the tone of “glass” right, hopefully the rest of the sentence, usually “I’d … Continue reading →

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Not In Kansas Anymore

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Meg

I just heard about the Edison Chen scandal, it’s a weird reminder that we’re not in the US anymore. The short version of the story is that a Hong Kong actor took some risque shots of himself fooling around with … Continue reading →

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Truth In Advertising

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Meg

I got an ad on my GMail today that says “$$$ For Technical Writing – http://www.easywritingbiz.com/ – Online Writer Desperatly Needed On The Internet! No Experience Needed.” I don’t know what to say. At least they’re honest.

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Posted on January 20, 2008 by Meg

Today we stopped playing Civ long enough for lunch at Mexican Wave and a visit to the Guiyou silk market. (Stick’s discovered that if you don’t develop alphabet, but everyone else does, you really don’t need it to trade techs.) … Continue reading →

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Gadget Addict

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Meg

Gadgetaddict offers quite the array of tech toys, like remote-control cars or videogames. Some of them are the crazy toys like we just saw in that in-flight duty-free catalog, like the motorized inflatable bumper boat. I think it would be … Continue reading →

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Teaching Little Ones

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Meg

My first two days of classes were great, but also overwhelming. I have 6 classes of 25ish kindergartners per day. Fortunately I only work 3 days a week, oddly enough it’s Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, which were the days I … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 3, 2007 by Meg

From boingboing: Last night, Digg.com underwent a user rebellion. Digg removed many posts — and terminated the accounts of some of its users — for posting a 16-digit hexadecimal number that is used to lock up HD-DVD movies. The number … Continue reading →

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One Child Left Behind

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Meg

I haven’t wanted to post about the Virginia Tech shooting because there’s really nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said more eloquently. Yesterday when I got to LCC, I had a new handout in my mailbox. It’s all … Continue reading →

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No Dentist Left Behind

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Meg

From the brilliant education blog Are We Doing Anything Today? comes No Dentist Left Behind. My dentist is great! He sends me reminders so I don’t forget checkups. He uses the latest techniques based on research. He never hurts me, … Continue reading →

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