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I’m in Beijing for about 2 weeks. Yesterday I bought a newspaper (青年报, or Youth Daily, which seems to be one of the best and most lively, although a bit above my reading level) to see what they had to say about the US election, and also what they called Obama (奥巴马:ao4 ba1 ma3) and [...]

This is very cool.

From The Beijinger.

This is very interesting (thanks to Simon Elegant) from a report on cleaning up China’s air:

One of the most surprising findings was that “the kinds of technology
currently being adopted in China are not cheap. They’re not buying
junk, and in some cases the plants are employing state-of-the-art
technology.”
The findings suggest that emissions levels from Chinese
powerplants, he said, [...]

On the one hand, I’m really glad no one is transcribing what I say. On the other hand, I have no idea what this means:

You mentioned education and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is [...]

It’s hard to imagine 13,000 hospitalized babies due to the milk contamination scandal in China.

And even “big white rabbit” candy, which I’ve been eating since my first trip to China in 1983, has melamine.

Tomorrow Adobe will announce the next version of their video processing software (CS4, if you’re keeping score at home). It’s supposed to include AVCHD support (hurray!) and include Adobe Soundbooth, which will provide automatic speech to text conversion (hip-hip-hurray!). I just downloaded the Soundbooth beta and may play with it tonight to see if it [...]

Nvidia to Offer Its Chips in the New Cray Desktop – GigaOM

Now just for political video, but I’m glad to see that this is in development.

My Buffalo Terastation network attached drive seems to have a broken drive. I’ve ordered a new one (or as close to the original as you can now get), and I guess I’ll have a chance to find if RAID 5 is all it’s cracked up to be.

I’d already been considering getting a DROBO, which has [...]