ramblings of an expat Kiwi living in one small corner of Beijing

ranting

I thought Sinocidal had stopped posting… I thought wrong. They have continued the inevitable slide

Two articles on china.org.cn have me oddly concerned: Beijing Maid Shortage to Ease this Spring

I watched Martin Scorcese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan yesterday afternoon. It was one of

Jan 15, 2008 wangbo

Ladies and gentleman, the only thing Orwell got wrong was the date. I only have

I wish nobody had ever come up with this braindead idea, and now that they

For some reason when I installed AVG on this computer (the university-supplied one, not my

Dec 11, 2007 wangbo

So the University of Auckland has allowed itself to restrict entry to all undergraduate courses.

Dec 9, 2007 wangbo

Now that I can get back on to blogtown…. I’m getting really sick and tired

So this new webcam looks fine, but getting the built-in microphone to work properly is

Dec 5, 2007 wangbo

Finally some in the Western media are waking up to what the “One Child Policy”