A quick word about Uighur riot — who were killed?

July 7th, 2009

The official report says 156 people were killed in the Sunday riot in Urumuqi. The question remains who were killed in the riot and why they were killed. Read more...

Beer and durian, a dangerous combination?

July 2nd, 2009

OK, I confess. I had a piece of durian and a sip of Tsingdao Beer tonight. Read more...

Maybe St. Lucia one day

June 26th, 2009

As I am planning heavily to study hospitality management and trying to make a career change in this area, news about hotels and tourist industry have been getting my attention recently. Reading a few posts on the Internet, I feel St. Lucia seems to be a nice place to go, maybe I can try to find a job there after I graduate. Read more...

July 4

June 25th, 2009

American Consulate in Guangzhou held a celebration in Xiamen today for the incoming Independence Day. I was honored to be invited to the occasion. Here are some of my random thoughts. Read more...

Gmail and Google blocked in China?

June 24th, 2009

Maybe it’s just me or some random glitches. Read more...

Some important blogging habits to follow

June 18th, 2009

After blogging for more than a year, I think the following list of habits will better facilitate my blogging. Read more...

Quickly create favicon for WordPress

June 11th, 2009

Creating a favicon is easy. Only three steps are required. Read more...

How I execute mosquitoes

June 11th, 2009

How I execute mosquitoes? Electrocute them. I kill mosquitoes with such cruelty that will make Buddhists cringe. Frankly, I only launch wars against roaches, mosquitoes and flies, to list in an order of descending intensity of hatred. Read more...

WordPress theme Tarski hacks

June 10th, 2009

For a very short while, I forayed into TextPattern and wanted it to replace WordPress. It turned out that WordPress is just too convenient and powerful to be replaced. But I am still very impressed by Textile formating syntax embedded in TextPattern. Read more...

Postfix for WordPress

June 8th, 2009

Setting up a basic single domain postfix mail server was not as difficult as I imagined. Configuring a postfix mail server is not rocket science, and here is what I did to configure postfix for my WordPress blog. Read the rest of this entry »