Some facts which may or may not be interrelated ( Read more... )

Also, my Mac keeps zapping me. Darn dodgy Chinese electricity supply... >:O

I blame the speed of the internet connection here for the fact that it is 11:30pm already :-/ As I am actually vaguely sleepy, I should probably go to bed while it lasts, or be awake half the night again... it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to stay awake through a whole day's conference tomorrow, but after a few nights' persistent sleep ( Read more... )

The hotel restaurant menu that has been placed in my room is all written in Chinese, except for the following... description? poem? I'm not sure what to call it... read on and see for yourself!

Increases gradually in Hunan happy food hot food's person. the lake merchants are addicted to spicily also gradually become famous ( Read more... )

So, it turns out LJ is blocked in mainland China! and has been since 2007, it appears. I thought the page-load failure couldn't be due to that, because I remember being able to use LJ last time I was here in 2006; but apparently the block post-dates that. Internet censorship is alive and well here... Thank goodness for the University VPN, eh? ( Read more... )