Jottings from the Granite Studio

I’m a little new to the world of blogging, so I was a bit surprised to learn that I could be “tagged” and asked by other bloggers to jot down some number of thoughts or responses to celebrate the end of 2006. I’m not complaining. I want to thank Gracchi over at Westminster Wisdom (one [...]

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After this week’s earthquake off the coast of Taiwan, bloggers and the media reported on the internet outages/slowdowns between the PRC and the rest of the world. The funniest take on the subject has to be from Ryan’s (”The Humanaught”) Life in Suzhou Blog:

Apparently, and this is from the not-too-creditable “customer service” representative at [...]

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It got lost in the Christmas hoopla this year, so my apologies for not mentioning that Tuesday was the 113th anniversary of the birth of former Peking University librarian’s assistant and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong.
With Mao’s birthday so close to Christmas, perhaps we could make the Yuletide more palatable to the [...]

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