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URL Change and email updates

Email subscribers: you’re going to get an email from the new beijingsounds.com url and you’ll have to confirm it to stay subscribed. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Everyone else: don’t forget to update your RSS feed. This sinoglot.com/bjs URL will go dark pretty soon.
Oh, and a note on the new url about how, yes, Beijing Sounds is [...]

Posted 18 November 2011 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °

Beijing Sounds URL move

The Beijing Sounds Studios are officially set to occupy the beijingsounds.com URL. Please update RSS subscriptions here: http://www.beijingsounds.com/bjs/feed/
Email subscribers should be OK: the technical team is manually porting you (caveat: see note below) over to the new install.
If you encounter other flotsam, email would be much appreciated: bjshengr <at> gmail <dot> com
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Before the celebrity gossips [...]

Posted 17 November 2011 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °

RSS Feed Not Updating Problem

Although I feel reasonably confident that no technical team is as inept as that of the Beijing Sounds Studios, I’ll post this bit about the RSS feed just in case it’s of use to someone.

Posted 17 January 2011 † syz § ‡ Comments (4) °

Only those you trust can bleed you dry — repost for RSS readers

Since some folks noticed the RSS feed never updated for the last real post, here it is in all its weary glory.

Posted 27 March 2010 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °

Comments temporarily closed — No Longer

Sorry. Technical team, in its usual incompetence, thinks it has a way to solve technical issues. Should not involve too much down time, they say.
Update: live again! Holler if it gives you issues (bjshengr <at> gmail <dot> com)

Posted 26 March 2010 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °

Sinoglot: more about China and language

In language, as in every other aspect of human activity, China sometimes gets presented as monolithic when it is anything but. Just consider the term “Chinese” which includes, by some definitions, multiple language families.
Chinese “not being a monolith” goes much further than saying it’s made of distinct chunks, of course. A bit of the catalyst [...]

Posted 11 February 2010 † syz § Blogroll ‡ Comments Off °

Excerpts from the 2009 Accountant’s Report

Right, you wouldn’t normally be reading this. It’s fine. No one’s going to tell your spouse how you’re wasting your time. But let’s just be honest with each other and talk about some of life’s indulgences: if the accountant is lively and the books well-cooked, these reports can be great with a dish of roasted [...]

Posted 10 October 2009 † syz § ‡ Comments (7) °

Sound off: thoughtful spam

On spammers being a part of the main

Spare a moment for the Turing test — you remember: the one where the wily computer is supposed to get the best of human interlocutors by convincing them that it’s a person. The sci-fi romance version might have human interrogator falling in love with machine, then experiencing an [...]

Posted 19 July 2009 † syz § ‡ Comments (5) °