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On Twitter this Week

November 23, 2009

  • Funny translation in the Wenlin definition for 上火: “I have constipation as the result of yet another bout of excessive internal heat.” #
  • Saw a talk given by Mark “Dashan” Rowswell last night. He’s involved in the 2010 Expo. Interesting stuff. #
  • Funny Dashan quote from his talk last night: “I think a niche of 1.3 billion people is big enough.” #
  • Useful for viewing Twitter pages behind the GFW, but unclear if official (not safe to log in?): http://twitterkr.com/ #
  • I’m reading ChinaSmack after a long break. What’s the deal? Is it half-blocked now? Everything takes forever to open (without VPN). #
  • I was wondering how long it would take Chrome to lure me away from Firefox, but now I’ve hit this bug. Bye-bye, FF. http://ow.ly/EgEF #
  • Just installed Chromium for Mac. I’m liking it a lot. Since Chrome is about to release full plugin support, I think it may be time to switch #
  • The 小区 was blaring loud music for no discernible reason, but when we asked nicely, they shut it off. 文明 WIN! #
  • Has anyone out there set up Boxee on a PS3? Let me know how you did it! (Did you have to install Linux?) #