Archive for the ‘Various stuff’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Can You make money with Your personal blog? Some friends asked me this question, when I told them, that I put advertisements on my private blog. Honestly, it has been more of an experiment in the beginning. But let's start in the very beginning, in the dark past, when I ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Once a month or so I get an email from someone. In this email someone tells me about some useful Chinese learning website. When I got the email the first 2 times, I didn't recognize it was spam. A few days ago I got the third letter from them. The ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Some photos from Kunming are still left and I want to share them with You. Here are some odd ones....
A squirrel near Yunnan Normal University. There was a whole group of squirrels, but getting them all on one picture was an impossible task.
When I was at the Kunming outdoor festival, ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Sometimes we come across a very specific word which is not in our dictionary. We need a translation anyway. So what can we do? Wikipedia rescues us, at least in many cases. This How To is written for the English -> Chinese translation, however it can be applied for almost ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Although stones are the major attraction in Shilin stoneforrest, there also some flowers. When I had been there at the beginning much of the flowering was already over, but I got a few interesting ones. This article is part of my shilin series.
Shilin stoneforrest
Flowers in Shilin (You are here)
Shilin backcountry ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
suddenly appeared... what is this guy doing here?
Whatever he does there, he's tasty. Generally speaking the food is way better than back in Germany. Luckily I can enjoy Chinese food for a few more months until I have to return to good old Germany.
So how is it going? My Chinese ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Who would have believed that? Wikipedia got unblocked in China. The Chinese variant however is still blocked.
Overall it doesn't matter. Loading my blog to write this article took more than 10 minutes. In the morning the internet is faster, however I need to work in the morning.
A slight advantage of ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
1 more hour, then I have to go to the train that brings me to the airport.
In about 5 hours my plane starts from Europe to China. My first destination: Hongkong.
Have a nice day
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Just next Wen Shu temple there is an are with old restored houses. One of the most impressive constructions there is this ancient 6 storey restored house. I can hardly believe that more than 100 hundred years ago there had been such tall houses in China. But then, Chengdu is ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
If You are from the West then You are probable famous in China. Maybe not in the modern cities like Shanghai or Beijing, but You definitely are in the rest of the country.
People will take photos of You. Sometimes they pretend to take a photo of a tree that is ...
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