We went to the zoo yesterday, where I saw my first real Panda. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I left rather disappointed. Perhaps because they’re not as cuddly as they make us believe? The ...

It’s been a week since the last update. I guess that’s what happens to most blogs. On the other hand, I haven’t had anything to write about, but now I do: I bought a robot vacuum cleaner! Fmart F...

Bike for 279 yuan Anxious to see more of this huge city, we bought two bikes at Carrefour yesterday, costing about 300 yuan = 30 euro each! For 30 euro you get a frame, two wheels, two brakes, ste...

Finally, after I’ve waited 6 years for a good opportunity, I decided to hang this poster on the wall: Vota Comunista

Starting next Monday, Ine will start working at The Learning Center in her new job as their marketing and communications director.

From BBC World: Eight-year olds compete to be voted class monitor: “Cheng Cheng ensured that his classmates shouted down Xu Xiaofei before she had even started to speak, and she found it difficul...

Here’s a nice example of Chinglish: Silk wear mat dream bed recoil pad mat dream fine companion then, cotton it is comfortable for surface fabric to feel, the empty fibre in the interior core is...

Hi All, And welcome to my new blog. For those of you who haven’t heard yet: Ine and I have just moved to Beijing, China! Here are some photos, for now.

The language for the GIMP and the SubVersion command line tools can be changed to another language by setting the LANG-environmentvariable to “en”. LANG=en

I’m typing this entry under Ubuntu 8.04, booted from an external USB disk. The initial installation of ubuntu was pretty straightforward, just make sure the external drive is connected when you boo...