Matt has republished some of our best iDrone posts:
Writing an accumulator generating function in Ruby (Mark Wilbur)
Thoughts on the Subset Sum Problem (Matt Ball)
On Google’s Evilness (John Pasden)
The Perfect Programming Language (Matt Ball)
We had some serious geekery going there while it lasted.

A couple days ago, Ryan and John pointed out to me that they had some usability issues with the color of the links on my site when you hover over them. I had been making them white, but that was just too hard to read on the light background of the site, especially for [...]

Toshuo.com is in the process of changing hosts. Soon it will all be hosted on Dream Host, thus making it one of the cool kids again. I’ll have over 1.7 terabytes of bandwidth a month, too! Details will follow shortly!
Update: The migration is complete! Toshuo.com, as well as all of my other [...]

When John recently designed a “please speak Chinese” T-shirt, I was immediately tempted to buy one. I always love it when locals talk to me in Chinese, instead of trying to use English first.

请讲普通话。

Putting this on a shirt worn by a foreigner is cool on multiple levels. Not only does it demonstrate that [...]

Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking about making an online drill for Mandarin tone pairs. I don’t think I’m very unique in that I had the four tones down within in pretty short time as long as they were in isolation, but struggled with pairs of tones for a long, long [...]

You move me —
You move me —
Open sea and city lights
Busy streets and dizzy heights
You call me —
You call me —
-The Analogue Kid

It’s 2AM, and my last night in Shanghai is drawing to an end. It’s hard to imagine that in half a day’s time my vacation will be over and I’ll be flying [...]

Yesterday was my first whole day in Shanghai, and it was awesome. After showing late the night before and crashing at John’s place, I was psyched enough about finally being here that I was still able to get up pretty early. John had a final in the morning, but after he got back [...]

Chinese Pod has changed quite a bit in the last two and a half months. Some new features have been added, there are many new podcasts, the quality of the podcasts has improved, and there have been several minor but important changes in the lessons since the last time I wrote about them.

I guess it’s time to write what I think of Chinese Pod. Unless JT really ramps up the volume of his podcasting and gets friends to help out, Chinese Pod is the only game in town. There really isn’t any other large collection of podcasts for Chinese learners out there… yet. There’s [...]

After not seeing any more feature requests or error reports on my tool for converting Chinese numbers, I’ve decided it’s stable enough to present to the Chinese-forums readers. At this point, I can honestly say it offers significantly more functionality than any other online tool for converting Chinese numbers into digits and it does [...]