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Archive for May, 2007

How not to learn Chinese

Posted by Jordan on May 7th, 2007

Just in case you thought learning Chinese by reading fortune cookies was a valid method of self-education, I’d like to use this time to demonstrate why that’s not a good idea. These fortunes were two of the three we recently opened at a meal. I always try to make people who don’t know [...]

Stupid post-dated entry

Posted by Jordan on May 7th, 2007

I tried to post-date an entry but it didn’t work right.  Instead, it’s in some WordPress limbo where I can see the page, and it’s supposedly “published” and yet it doesn’t show up on the front-page at all.  Rather than figure out the problem and fix it (better things to do with my time), I’ll [...]

Mac-tacular Part 1

Posted by Jordan on May 5th, 2007

I referenced it some time ago, but I made The Switch some time ago. My primary machine is now a MacBook Pro laptop. I haven’t even installed Linux on it yet, so strong was my desire to give Apple a fair shake at running my life. Some benefits were immediately obvious — [...]

Big faker

Posted by Jordan on May 2nd, 2007

Do you ever experience this? It’s not something that I dwell on or think about very often, but every now and then (like two minutes ago) as I’m laying in bed, trying to fall asleep, my mind will freeze with the sudden fear that maybe tomorrow will be the day. The day where [...]