New York City: There’s tang bao here

July 22, 2008

On Sunday night, I arrived in New York with Galen, a friend I made in Wuhan that just happens to live and study in New York. The train ride, which I’ll blog at a later date (Thursday perhaps), brought us into Times Square to crowds, heat, and crazy-large advertisments. After stopping in Galen’s packed to the brim apartment, we took an hour ride out to Queens to meet my housing for the night, another Wuhanren named Lydia. Read the rest of this entry »

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I link, you look

July 15, 2008

In the spirit of connecting you with things I think you might look, I must officially announce the i link you look tag. This will take you to some quicklinks I have found that I think you might love.

Last night, Chase Utley, my and a Philly favorite, took part in the Home Run Derby. Here’s what happened between him and the crowd. Read the rest of this entry »

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Phrases that payses

July 12, 2008

People have a sixth sense, a second sense and sense and sensibility. Now, courtesy of my English slang book, I present you with the ability to have a “horse sense.” Unlike our last animal one, happy as a clam, I haven’t gotten a clue of what this is related to.

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My favorite WP Plug-ins

July 11, 2008

There are several lists out there about the best Wordpress plug-ins to really get the best out of your wordpress blog, but I thought I’d add my ideas to the game. I’ll do it alphabetically for you:

Akismet: This is a built-in comment spam killer, which as reported by most people and me, is really great.
Bookmarkify is a great automatic social bookmarking tool. It add little adorable pictures the end of each of my posts for easy marking for digg, technorati, stumble upon and many more.
The Feedsmith Feedburner plug-in eases the process of moving your RSS feed to Feedburner, which is much better tool for feeds than the built-in feed of wordpress.
Similar Posts plug-in does just what it says and does it well. It takes my tags I choose at the end of posts to group together some recent similar posts the reader might love to read.
I also use several plug-ins to get appropriate and efficient viewing on many portable devices including the iphone, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS-Lite.

These are just my favorites of the lot. If you have one you’d like me to know about or you want to promote.