Last night we got a taste of what’s to come over the next year. For the last several years we’ve watched from our 10th floor perch as a new stadium has been in the process of being built across the street to host football (soccer) competitions for the 2008 Olympics. There has been a rush [...]
Entries from April 2007
Kickoff
April 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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What are they doing?
April 19th, 2007 · No Comments
Well, something has gone awry. Internet access has been seriously altered since yesterday afternoon at about 2 PM. Could not download email from either Yahoo or Google (both of which I have as POP 3 forwarding accounts), though I was still able to get to each email site via the web. The Yahoo website was [...]
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First news of the shootings at Virginia Tech
April 17th, 2007 · No Comments
I wrote this piece yesterday and posted it to a listserv I belong to before I realized that yesterday blogspot.com had been unblocked here in China. Or maybe the block was just in Tianjin. Hard to know who blocks what and where the blocks originate. Some seem to be national and others local. Controlling access [...]
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