It's unusual I actually do anything I say I'm going to, but I've just read a novel by Wang Xiaobo.
I'm quite impressed by this, as it's usually the case that I get halfway through Chinese novels and then just give up. I tried 活着 (filmed as To Live) but found it really quite dull. [...]

Three weeks ago I did something I've been meaning to do for months, and left my job. Even though I was only working mornings, the constant stream of English translations of contracts, government documents and highly-classified intelligence material other stuff which I was meant to mould into more readable English had been getting ever more [...]

After a few days wrestling with databases and hosting companies, both of which are complex and temperamental things, all sites that need to be online are online. Chinese-forums.com seems to be running perfectly, though activity levels are low - not suprisingly, as the site was unavailable for almost a week and seems to have taken [...]

Chinese-forums.com has been down for the last week, and will probably be down for a few more days. This has also knocked out Signese.com. NewsinChinese.com is also gone, but that wasn't updating anyway - work is in progress on NiC, though not by me.