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Another year in China

I got my renewed visa back today, I’m legal for another year in China!

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More styrofoam anyone?

It’s like an ant, carrying a Cheeto on it’s back – the physics of it actually blow your mind.  But it’s common here in Shanghai – you’ll see a 3-wheeler bike with stuff piled up so high you can’t believe … Continue reading

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Great Circle Mapper & a year’s travel

I moved to China a wee bit over a year ago, and I’ve had the pleasure of doing a ton of traveling since.  I never thought I’d actually say “It’d b nice to stay still for a minute” – I’ve … Continue reading

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Break time

One of the parks right next to the office.

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Beijing & Great Wall in photos

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My first free software contributions

In 2003, I was a young college student, bored one winter.  I had been using the Xfce window manager on my Slackware Linux machine, and I liked to use XMMS to rock out the tunes while doing my CS homework. … Continue reading

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Banshee on Mac OS X: Nice to see you!

  A few years ago, I used to write some plugins and a little bit of code for the Banshee project.  As I grew in my job at Mintel, I lost energy for working on Banshee but the project carried … Continue reading

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Worst vacation idea ever

A few weeks ago I picked up a case of mononucleosis, which has been a real joy.  As I’ve been off work for two weeks now, sitting around home waiting for my body to slowly recover, I’ve actually taken the … Continue reading

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Happy Friday the 13th

Hello from tomorrow. (Think about it.) Photo from downtown Singapore – I call it, “Got enough air conditioners?”

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Singapore

I’ve been on the road a lot the last six weeks!  I haven’t published a single photo from my trip to Kuala Lumpur which is just not fair.  But now onto another city and new Mintel office setup – Singapore. … Continue reading

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