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Huolong on blogs: An interview by Justrecently’s China Weblog
These questions and answers are an interview by and will also be published at Justrecently’s China Weblog. I’m one of the China bloggers he interviewed.
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My seven links
I started my first website with the now dead Yahoo! GeoCities in the summer of 2000. I still remember how joyful I was when I saw my first ever website went online. Later, I hosted my webpages with some of China’s leading portal websites where free personal web page service was offered. As the Internet bubble popped in the early 2000s, the portal websites, one by one, all shut down their free services with the free personal webpage service being one of the victims. I eventually got tired of having to move my website around. I went on to register a domain name, which is exactly how my Chinese name is officially spelled in English (ChangGuohua.com), and subscribed to a hosting package in December 2002. In 2006, I started using Google’s Blogger and in 2007 migrated to IXWEB HOSTING and set up a WordPress blog there. It’s been more than five years since I became a “blogger” and I can see no reason why I should stop being one.
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What is utterly absurd happens in China (July 28, 2011)
It might not actually happen here. But, I assure you that it has a Chinese logic to it.
- At the site of the the July 23, 2011 train crash near Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, when a reporter asked an old lady from Wenzhou what she thought about the crash that officially killed 39 people, she replied with a poker face, “It’s good enough that the passengers haven’t been asked to pay for the damaged train carriages. What more can you expect?”
Spurred by…
Money.
Yes, this blog post is inspired by money, which is a thing I’ll need for everything from building of my family library to a plan my wife floated today of a trip to Disneyland in Hong Kong in four to five year’s time when our eight-month son will be old enough to remember his experience well into his adulthood.
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Obama: They talk about me like a dog
In a speech this week to his supporters, a group of labor union members, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (a source of his votes), U.S. President Obama accused his political opponents of talking about him “like a dog”. I’m not all interested in American politicians’ dog-eat-dog scenarios. But, I’m particularly fascinated by his use of the word dog in a disapproving way. He might mean his critics talked to him as if he was a dog, or they talk to him as dogs do. But what he means depends on how they talk to dogs or he feels about talking dogs.
Our home's first air-conditioner(s)
We have to get at least one air-conditioner to equip our home with this summer.
For my seven past summers in Beijing, and actually all my more than 30 past summers, I either didn’t lived in an air-conditioned home, or when I live in one, I seldom used air-conditioners. I don’t like big electricity bills or the air blown from long-serving air-conditioners that smells of old dust particles.