I’ve long been a fan of David Lancashire’s Chinese-English dictionary and anotation engine Adsotrans. I’ll admit I’ve had my share of frustrations with its previously poor support of traditional characters, but I’ve always loved the engine.
Since he David joined Chinese Pod, his various technical marvels have been springing up here and here throughout [...]

Today, I met Brendan O’Kane (Bokane). He showed me around the city a bit. First we got a meal at a Sichuan place, then we hit a local punk concert, and after that we went to a popular hangout for “intellectual lăowài”, and got some Xinjiang food. It was [...]

Have you ever been web browsing and wished you could just click on Chinese characters and get pop-up translations? If so, then this post is for you. Adsotrans is the same technology used to create the News in Chinese site. It analyzes Chinese text, guesses which characters should be grouped together as [...]

I went to KFC with a buddy today. Their new 古早味雞肉捲’s not too bad, BTW. Anyway, we heard the new Chinese cover of Madonna’s Material Girl, 拜金女郎. The Chinese version’s catchier, somehow. .. especially the part where it goes “yīnwèi wŏ zhīīīīīīīīīdào zhè shìjiè luànqībāzāo!” Today, I heard the song at [...]

A few days ago, I went back to 台北 to hang out with one of my old co-workers one more time before he went back to America. It was pretty cool to hang out with him, and it turns out he’d been reading my blog. He said he liked the News in Chinese [...]