Jottings from Rectified.name

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As many, if not both, of my readers by now know, I have joined forces, Avengers-style, with my fellow China-based bloggers Brendan O’Kane, Dave “Davesgonechina” Lyons, Will “Imagethief” Moss, and Yajun to form a new group blog called Rectified.name. But The Granite Studio will remain open for business.

Happy Holidays from the Granite Studio

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Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays. We’ll be spending Christmas here in Beijing before taking YJ’s parents down to Sanya for a few days of sun and fun at the beach. See you in 2012.

Annnnnnddddd…..we’re back.

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Back from summer break and looking forward to a new semester…plus tales from the Forbidden City tour touts.

Summer Vacation

It’s hot. It’s smoggy. It’s summer in Beijing. Beijingers might call this “fog” but if so, then I think it was the “fog” which just killed one of my plants. No matter. It’s that time of the year when your correspondent likes to take a little summer vacation. Keep in mind in my line of “work”, vacation is defined more as “time to catch up on and/or try to complete dissertation chapters, overdue writing projects, promised book reviews, and next year’s syllabi.” But one thing I won’t be doing too much between now and the end of August is blogging. I know many, if not both, of my readers, will miss my irregular updates but fear not…I’ll be back on September 10.

A little light housekeeping after five years of blogging

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Recently I’ve been thinking about what blogs mean in today’s world of RSS feeds and social media, which leads, inevitably, to a little housekeeping and a slight site redesign.