Category: Blog

  • Fixing your 4G iPod, for free!

    I’m still using a 40Gb 4th generation iPod that i got for free from one of those “free iPods!” schemes back in 2004. For the past year or so it has been giving me some problems. Every couple months it will give me either the sad iPod icon or the folder exclamation point icon and […]

  • Recycling for a Living

    You don’t have to go very far outside the cities of China to see the manufacturing that fills the air with smoke and makes the waters run green. However, if you go to the streets of a city like Shanghai, you see something kind of unexpected: recycling. You see recyclable material piled high on to […]

  • Active Desktop Background

    My Current Desktop, Utilizing Active Desktop and the W3Background files I’m releasing below. Active desktop was designed to deliver content to your desktop without having to visit your favorite websites to get the information. In many ways it could be seen as the precursor to today’s widgets. Active Desktop was first introduced in Internet Explorer […]

  • Mt. Qomolangma

    On my trip to Tibet, we completed the hike to Mt. Everest (Mt. Qomolangma) Base camp, and stayed the night in a tent at the hike starting point, what i called tourist base camp. The hike lasted maybe an hour to an hour and half, and wasn’t too stressful, though we had our full bags […]

  • Tibet

    I traveled to Tibet over the Chinese national day holiday in early October as we had the week off from classes. The main highlights of the trip were the visit to Lhasa, Mt. Everest, Namtso lake, and taking the new train from Lhasa back to Shanghai (53 hours). I put up a flickr set of […]