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, stee...

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 i...

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...

It seems there’s some truth in this quote from Futurama’s Fry. According to this article the human eye has a resolution of 1,6 arc minute for a line pair. That is, two lines at a distance can be s...

It’s too bad wget does not support a SOCKS proxy. To tunnel wget through an SSH tunnel you’ll have to rely on a statically mapped port: plink -L 8080:example.com:80 server This command opens a lo...