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What happened to the BJS homepage sidebar?

[Update: Problem is fixed, but without much knowledge of why. Technical team fired en masse. Details at bottom if you're a glutton for this kind of thing.]

Posted 11 June 2009 † syz § ‡ Comments (6) °

For the record

Don’t you hate it when bloggers post about the most recent tweak they made to their color scheme or their home page graphic? It’s kind of like looking at pictures of other people’s babies — a bit grotesque.

Posted 17 December 2008 † syz § ‡ Comments (13) °

Zhonglish / Chinglish conference (would-be) attendees

Apologies for the administrivia. I just discovered that a couple folks who rsvp-d for the Nov 17 event were stuck in spam filters of one sort or another.
If you have responded but not heard back from me, please write again (bjshengr -AT- gmail -DOT- com). If you’re still not getting through, you can always leave [...]

Posted 06 November 2008 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °

The rearview mirror

On Beijing Sounds’ first birthday, the year’s stats, wasting time, and the fastest recitation of 千字文 ever recorded

Posted 10 October 2008 † syz § personal ‡ Comments Off °

About

As the Beijing Sounds (BJS) studios approach the one year birthday in October 2008, you might not be wondering about the various characters known to congregate here. You might not have any interest in what they do outside the studios or how they relate to each other. Don’t worry, you wouldn’t be the only one. [...]

Posted 07 September 2008 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °

Self-indulgence

Princess and Mrs. Beijing Sounds sent text as soon as the wheels touched ground at PEK last night. By 10:30, they’d entered the Beijing Sounds studios in Shàngdì (上地 in northwest Beijing) and managed to include your editor (who they’d left holed up in Minnesota) in most of the evening rituals: the book-reading, the talk [...]

Posted 27 July 2008 † syz § kid culture § personal ‡ Comments (9) °

Know an infinitive splitter? Give them a break!

Briefly, since there are no Beijing Sounds in this at all. The boilerplate WARNING in the blog sidebar has sufficed to keep most of the lawyers out of the messy back yard here at BJS, where we do indulge in full-monty writing behavior that would get us banned from any reputable venue.
But since the warning [...]

Posted 01 June 2008 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °

Email subscriptions on discount

Meta — sometimes you gotta
For those who prefer old-fashioned email notification about posts, Beijing Sounds finally has an option for that again. This is not to imply that the technical team has returned from the 3-month-old strike over management insults, as this is the subject of continued and tense negotiations, with rumors of sabotage and [...]

Posted 01 June 2008 † syz § ‡ Comments Off °