Hackers may have taken it down for a while, but the Taiwan Blog Feed is redesigned and up again!
I have no idea why it was under such a brutal attack. I added any sites which met the criteria of being about Taiwan, teaching English or learning Chinese, and promptly removed anyone who [...]

This is a demonstration of David’s new Adsotrans plugin. Below is a copy of 85度C’s drink menu. Click on any Chinese words you can’t read to see a popup with both pinyin and an English translation. You can also edit translations. I’m interested in hearing how you like these popups compared [...]

This web site may be near its end. My US bank was recently bought out by ING Direct, they closed the accounts of all their customers living abroad. That leaves me without a debit card. Unfortunately, even after living in Taiwan for five years, I still haven’t found a local bank willing to [...]

I wasn’t kidding when I said I liked the new dictionary at labs.chinesepod.com. After getting used to using it all the time via the search bookmark I made last week, I started wondering why I still had the MDBG searchbar up on my page.
After I quick consultation with David (CPod’s CTO), I had [...]

For the first time in a few weeks, I have a little bit of free-time, and I don’t feel like going outside, either. Typhoons have that effect on me.
I’ve been thinking about pruning my blog. This blog is a mish-mash of personal entries, ideas I’ve been thinking about, news, and other things. [...]

Thank you, Stephan.

As you may have noticed, my Chinese blog has become completely wrecked over the last couple of weeks. It happened when I restored an SQL backup (made through phpmyadmin). 道聽塗說 became é “è ½å¡—èªª, and all the other Chinese characters (i.e. the whole blog) became similarly corrupted. I’ve tried deleting the whole [...]

Recently, Lonnie (of OMBW) wrote about a pretty nice web tool that tests to see if a site is blocked in China or not. It’s free, and you can check your site’s accessibility from servers in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. The name of the site is Website Pulse.
It’s been pretty accurate as [...]

I’ve been extremely lazy in working on the layout and presentation of this site, as regular readers can surely tell. The banner image that used to be at the top of this site was just the default image from the Wuhan theme, plus some text. It sucked.
In fact, it sucked so bad that [...]

Those who have been checking my blog over the last few days have probably noticed a lot of down-time. I’m completely to blame.
This is a long, boring post. For those who don’t want to read it, here are the key points:

ANHost is fast.
Their tech support didn’t impress me.
My blog is a fairly complex [...]