Monthly Archives: February 2011

Will There Be a Jasmine Revolution?

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Pete Nelson

I just read an article on Pajamas Media entitled “A First-Hand Report from a ‘Jasmine Rally’ in Shanghai.” It discusses the author’s first-hand observations of a rally in Shanghai modeled on the protests and revolutions taking place in the Middle … Continue reading →

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买东西

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Pete Nelson

Shopping! Tomorrow night, I have my Chinese language class, so I am studying and finishing my homework today. This chapter in the textbook (Integrated Chinese, Level 1 Part 1 – yeah, I’m a beginner) is titled “Shopping”（买东西 – pinyin: măi dōng xi, literally … Continue reading →

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大家好！

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Pete Nelson

认识你们很高兴！Or in English, “Hello everyone! Happy to meet you all!” I wanted to see how well WordPress handles Chinese. It seems to do just fine. I can use the Microsoft Chinese Pinyin ABC IME (Input Method Editor) in the WordPress … Continue reading →

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Rolling

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Pete Nelson

Well, I’ve made some more progress on this here bloggy thing. I made categories for posts and for the blog roll, and I’ve made some progress on populating the blog roll. Maybe I will actually kind of enjoy this blogging stuff … Continue reading →

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Well, Never Mind!

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Pete Nelson

I was wrong about the <link> tag working in IE8. It isn’t in the page source. Apparently, the Google Font that I selected has been installed on my computer, so the IE8 CSS style picks it up. I don’t know why … Continue reading →

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Firefox Check

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Pete Nelson

I’ve been looking at the blog in IE8 up until this point, so I thought I had better check it in Firefox as well. I’ve been messing with the CSS and fonts, trying to make it look a little less boring. … Continue reading →

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Custom CSS

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Pete Nelson

I couldn’t handle not being able to do what I wanted with the blog template, so I broke down and bought the WordPress upgrade to allow customizing the template CSS. So far, I have made a couple of modifications to … Continue reading →

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Another Generic Blog

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Pete Nelson

I’ve made some progress on updating this blog to be a little more to my liking, but I still think it’s a really generic-looking blog site. There have got to be a million other sites that look more-or-less the same. … Continue reading →

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Hacking the Blog

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Pete Nelson

Well, I have a little time today to do some more hacking on this blog. I’m not crazy about the template I have in place right now, and I need to set up some categories, and do a bit of … Continue reading →

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My First WordPress Post

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Pete Nelson

Well, I “imported” my Windows blog to WordPress. It didn’t take long, because I never posted anything to the Windows blog! Maybe I will post more often in this blog. If I get ambitious I might import stuff from my … Continue reading →

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