Are the French finally seeing the light? Is true civilisation finally reaching their shores? Or are the IRB and French rugby union just trying to make sure they manage to pull off the world cup? This bit is interesting: "Rugby is also being seen as a...
A text from the 课外阅读 at the end of Unit 8 in my textbook is entitled "委婉语". I must admit that when I first saw the title I thought it must be about the language of some ethnic minority out in the northwest, but no, it's about tactful language. For those...
(x-posted at bezdomny.blogspot.com and wangbo.blogtown.co.nz. If anybody can tell me how to make links work on over-blog, please tell me. The two links below were cut and pasted, don't take them as a sign I can make over-blog do links, I've tried a million...
So I was watching CCTV 9 last night, that half hour programme before World Wide Watch, and they had an item on a Buddhist temple in Neijiang, Sichuan. It was the usual CCTV 9 fluff, but one thing kept bugging me like a stubborn mosquito all the way through...
So I replaced the rather gormless-looking photo of myself at the top of the page with a photo of Gollum, who was in Beijing last weekend. Well, a statue of Gollum was at the New Zealand New Thinking exhibition at Oriental Plaza. Now I suppose I should...
Well, no, but you're all welcome to go here and read what I wrote about an article explaining how Peking became Beijing, especially if you're linguistically minded, and especially if you're more knowledgable than me about the evolution of the Chinese...
So I woke up this morning feeling like.... it was another morning. Ratty, headachy, and like I'd rather sleep a few more hours, in other words. Got up, got the computer going, got breakfast, the usual, but I just kept feeling worse and worse. Eventually...
I can now also be found at wangbo.blogtown.co.nz. Why? Part of my strategy- no, wait, my entire strategy for dealing with Nanny is to have blogs scattered at a variety of service providers around the net. Proxies are all well and good, but I'm trying...
So as this seems to be my only blog account that is totally open and available on the mainland, it might soon become my main blog. I can log in to and apparently blog on blogger, but I can't see anything.blogspot.com. It appears canalblog is also blocked,...
One thing I forgot to mention that I learned at Jeremiah's party: I have suddenly and catastrophically lost my ability to drink. Well, I probably would have been fine if I'd helped myself to some of the food on offer, but still..... ....still, this one...
