Tue, 06 Nov 2007

Martin Lee's WSJ article, and what happened next

What a sad story. Hong Kong legislator Martin Lee writes an article for the Wall Street Journal ("China's Olympic Opportunity", 17 October 2007) - which the pro-Beijing press and pro-Beijing political parties in Hong Kong take as a welcome pretext for attacking him in a huge smear campaign.

It's obvious how nervous the Communists are: a citizen makes use of his right of expression (and, by the way, speaks out against boycotting the 2008 Beijing Olympics!) and is immediately branded as a "traitor", an "unpatriotic" person, somebody who invites "foreign forces" to meddle with China's "internal" affairs. This from those who are constantly meddling with Hong Kong's internal affairs, showing no respect whatsoever for the autonomy granted to Hong Kong by the Chinese government. And as was to be expected, not a single word from the Hong Kong government in defense of a Hong Konger's right to free speech.

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 18:26 in /china/hong_kong. -- Permalink

Favicon

I stumbled over this "favicon.ico" file on my server, had a look at it, replaced it with my beloved moose ... Here we go (but you'll have to clean out your cache before you see any change).

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 17:49 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Added some style

I added a CSS file to this blog (whose only job, for the time being, is making the calendar a little smaller) and replaced "b" tags with "strong" tags for the title - in my ceaseless striving for web standards compliance. I guess with this Blosxom blog, there's still some way to go ...

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 17:35 in /technology/internet/blosxom. -- Permalink

WordPress blogging How-to - finished!

That didn't take long - just about 2 hours, and I already formatted my text using Word (blush ...) and printed it out. Which shows once again that WordPress is very well thought out and easy to use!

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 16:51 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Writing a WordPress blogging How-to

Since the new English Amity website is now up and running and I'm not the only person supposed to post articles there, I'm now in the process of writing a brief step-by-step manual:

• How to log in
• How to write an article
• How to save it as a draft and preview it
• How to publish an article
• How to upload pictures and integrate them into articles
• How to edit older articles
• How to edit the "announcement box"

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 14:24 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Subversion

Just in case I'll find out how to install it on my server, I put a link to the Subversion website here.

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 14:16 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Treeless Christian Science Monitor

Have I mentioned that the Christian Science Monitor is one of the best newspapers? It's an excellent source of information, objective not ideological, providing detailed analysis and background information, with a keen interest in the people who are affected by the great global events and developments. This kind of reporting is hard to find in other newspapers.

The internet edition is excellent, not least because it provides links to both related articles and original material.

I've subscribed to their "treeless" edition too - the newspaper as it is printed, but as a PDF. So I get the whole paper in the original layout, and I get it a day before the print edition is available.

Also interesting: the history of the paper, and who owns it.

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 11:53 in /media. -- Permalink

Your subscription expired

My firewall and antivirus software subscription expired - 3 months ago, it seems ... so why do I get the order to renew it today? It's taking me hours to reactivate my account with the company (yes, I forgot my password, can you imagine!), renew the subscription, download the stuff (from a website which wants to run scripts from nine different sources!), install it, install the licence key ... The program which is supposed to download and install the thing doesn't work properly so I have to reboot the computer ...

After installing the software, I have to reboot again. Each time I reboot I get another reminder: Your subscription expired, please renew now. In the meantime, I have to make sure 4 times that they don't send me advertisements (spam, that is) in the future. Hey, this isn't even a free product! I'm paying for it! Finally the firewall and virus scanner are running again - and I'm informed that my registration is "pending". So I can't get updates, not even updated virus definitions. Great.

Finally, I can install the correct licence key and updates are downloaded. After that, I have to reboot for the third time.

Why on earth are we running Windoze at the office? Dreaming sweet Linux dreams ...

Posted on 06 Nov 2007 at 11:16 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink