First Mid-Autumn Festival I've spent in China and not had great big boxes of inedible (to me, anyway) mooncakes to dispose of somehow. This is a benefit of not having an employer that I hadn't thought of previously.
I"m not sure why I have such a dislike of mooncakes. I think it comes back to [...]

Site's been down for a day or two while I was moving server - I'm putting all my eggs in one basket and running all my sites off one reseller account. That way, if that one server crashes, I can just forget about the internet because I won't have any sites or email addresses left. [...]

Gulou Dong Dajie is being simultaneously disemboweled and skinned alive, and this has kindled a refurbishment fever in the shops alongside. It's a bit of a nightmare to navigate between piles of sand, stacked paving blocks and workers having a well-deserved smoke. If you turn up around 4 or 5 pm though, as the sun [...]

Relatively quiet last week, after a fortnight which kept me busy with a bunch of freelance stuff. Mostly translation but I've started getting a small amount of copy-writing work as well, which adds a bit of variety. Also did a piece for Thats Beijing's back column last month as the incumbent was unavailable. I don't [...]