Lately, it’s been more difficult to find a taxi in Xiamen. At off-peak hours, you’re looking fruitlessly. At peak hours, compounded with shift changes, you’re better off walking.
I think we’ve found out why there’s been such a sudden change.
Lately, it’s been more difficult to find a taxi in Xiamen. At off-peak hours, you’re looking fruitlessly. At peak hours, compounded with shift changes, you’re better off walking.
I think we’ve found out why there’s been such a sudden change.
If anyone really, really wants a sock doll, Star Wars-themed or otherwise, let me know, so I can go out and get more socks in the right colours. I will attempt requests, but please note that I’m not a particularly crafty person and my realms of possibility are rather small (it took me three months to finally get around to making wee Darth).
Hawhaw! I vill slap you with my glove, and we vill duel to ze death: “Apple tried to claim invention, but this patent dispels that,” said Craig McHugh, president of Creative Labs, a Milpitas-based subsidiary. “We are going to look at all the alternatives that the patent provides. We can look at legal remedies.” — Apple’s iPod may face new patent challenge
Stop press: Chinese people are just like people in other countries. A researcher in China is very concerned about the problem of people freely choosing to chat online (with webcams) in various states of undress:
“At first, we thought if was merely a game for a few mentally abnormal people,” the paper quoted Liu as saying. “But as our research continued, we found the problem was much larger than expected,” Liu said.
Bloody Western influence, I tell you. No segment of the Chinese population would naturally have the desire to push social boundaries and indulge sexual fantasies… hang on, what sexual fantasies? Chinese people only reproduce as the country requires, and they are completely conservative and not sexually repressed whatsoever.
European clothing manufacturers are beginning to pull their work out of China, and it’s not all to do with the EU-China textile tiff.
Relief Riders International are going to Sri Lanka on 1st January 2006 to deliver medical care and school supplies to tsunami-affected areas.
Don’t fall for phishing scams that try to get American army families to reveal their banking information. I’ve been getting a bunch of e-mail on my Yahoo! account lately, seeking relatives of [insert name here] See, who was apparently a very wealthy executive in, you guessed it, Nigeria. I’ve been very tempted to write back and ask for more information because, golly gee whiz, I’ve just started doing the See family tree and while the circumstances are tragic indeed, they have uncovered a branch of the family I had not known about and if they could please maybe tell me a little more about this person and their family so I can match it up. I’m too lazy to keep up the counter-scam, though.
(I’ve taken screen shots of their e-mail addresses, they’re after the jump.)
Maybe video cameras that are used to make docos about Singaporean opposition politicians are different from other video cameras. A normal video camera would malfunction in those situations, I suppose.