Posted in General on September 29th, 2007 No Comments »
After weeks of pondering and shopping, I handed down CNY900 last week at the Wukesong photo mart for an SB-400 flash after I read about it here at this excellent Nikon site. Considering that you can get a local-brand Chapalang full sized tilting 3rd party flash for just CNY400, you betcha that it is a [...]
Posted in Tech on September 25th, 2007 No Comments »
You know, when you go on line to the more tech communities there are always talk about how Linux is better than Windows. So since I now have 3 HDDs in my upgraded PC, I decided to make one of them boot to OpenSuse Linux 10.2 just to see how far Linux have gone in [...]
Posted in China on September 21st, 2007 No Comments »
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There’s more fishy things going on when I actually filled up the form. I’ll update this with an example of the form, but what happened was that I was told not to fill up the parts for where my constituency is. … Just completely fishy. I mean I actually went [...]
Posted in China, General on September 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
Follow up of my earlier post, I managed to get the new (ahem) decoding card for my sat receiver, and now I am back to international media. Yup, nice to see BBC, CNN and most of all the documentary channels NatGeo and Discovery on the screen.
Actually it was really surreal getting the card. The seller [...]