Archive for April, 2006

Down, up, and move: Tales of DNS woes

Monday, April 24th, 2006

I know this happens to people all the time, I remember my friend Leylop had huge problems migrating her domain from one host to another, when the first one wouldn’t release it. So I was up – a few days ago, someone told me that they got a page advertising real estate when they went [...]

The Year of the Yao

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Update: I removed the inline-link to the trailer, since it didn’t look nice in Windows browsers. Quicktime. I came across this documentary on Yao Ming, the Chinese NBA player that has made, and found it quite interesting. I knew that Yao Ming was an important role model to Chinese in the US and in China [...]

Seeing Like a State, by James C. Scott

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Note, this post is based on a book review I wrote for school. It’s a very good book, and I wanted to share some of the main topics. I cut down about 40%, especially my own analyses (which were tenous at best). This is my first attempt at posting something not written originally for the [...]

From China: Rabbis, cheating cadres and Uyghur music videos

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

A lot of tech talk lately, but here is some interesting stuff from China. First, The Opposite End of China mentions a report from the NPR that there is now a high demand for rabbis in China. The reason – China produces so many food items for consumption in the US that have to be [...]

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