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My last post on Livejournal
Well, it's been fun, but I have pulled up my tent stakes and moved over to WordPress. From here on, you can find me at http://davestewart.wordpress.com. Now is a good time to update your bookmarks or Google Reader or feedreader. If I find a way to modify FeedBurner, I'll redirect that one too.
Here's how the transition went:
- The big questions ( Read more... )
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A riddle
I wave. I shimmy. I undulate ( Read more... ) -
When worlds collide
"You Americans don't save any money. Why ( Read more... ) -
Why China will never elect a president
Recently I have been conducting an informal poll amongst my friends and co-workers in China on their thoughts of American politics and their idea of who will win the US election in November ( Read more... ) -
Warning: Someone may be watching your pat-down search
In my last trip to China in June 2008, I did my usual Beijing / Shanghai loop. I was surprised that in both of these cities, I was flying through brand spanking new airport terminals.
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Pretending to be an Olympian
Yesterday I discovered that my Beijing hotel, the Shangri-La, is within 1 mile of the
Beijing 2008 Olympics course. So this morning when I was looking for a route to run, I
thought "what could be cooler"?
So I ran the course along Zhonguancun Road north from the Vollyball venue! Some things
I noticed:
- Running at 4:00AM in Beijing is a ( Read more... )
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Today in China
Greetings from Beijing, in the month after the 2008 Olympics!
- LensCrafters seems really huge here. I am accustomed to scads of American brands here like Coke, McDonalds, Nike, Pizza Hut and Subway. But LensCrafters? The signs are very basic black and white, so I thought it was a rip off. But I have run into maybe 5 or 6 already this trip.
- The ( Read more... )
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I just hit a personal milestone on my work blog. Two years to the day of posting there. 100 blog posts, about one per week.
It's kind of fun to think about some of the changes over the past two years:
- My friend Matt Singley was still in Oregon, and I can remember chatting with him about my work blog over drinks at Coffee People in Beaverton. ( Read more... )
