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 who […]

Google Calendar and the iCal revolution?

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Today, Google launched the much-awaited Google Calendar. You can read about the details elsewhere, or check it out for your self - suffice to say that it looks very slick and impressive to me, the only thing that was lagging was the promised integration with GMail. What makes me excited about this is not just […]

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 […]