Wow! I’ve been gone two weeks. I’ve really been working hard learning and putting together a template to be used in Joomla 1.5. One of these days I ought to work on templates for my own site and blogs. Oh, I also registered a new domain name, livingzhangjiajie.com, which I plan to use to blog about Zhangjiajie. I tried to find a personal blog in that area with no luck. So maybe I’ll use this new domain to document my experiences. Who knows. Maybe it’ll be helpful one day. Or maybe it will just be another blog.
I’ve also been caught up in following the T i b e t* protests on twitter. The amount of info coming through is incredible. I found a few tweeters with interest of documenting every bit of info available on the Internet to make available to other readers to have a better understanding of the situation. Through them I found even more tweeters. I am able to get different views around the world. I also learned quickly the danger of censorship, how it can distort perception, and how it may backfire one day. You don’t need to ask me who’s censoring, do you? I was a little worried for my own Internet connectedness in the future. But there are determined people online, using all sorts of ways to break through the wall to get to the whole truth. It makes me glad to know that they are there, and they want the full story so they can make their own judgment. They also passed on a few tricks for me to use later. 
By the way, if you are a tweeter, you should check out iwantsandy.com. Sandy is a digital assistant. You send her instructions and she’ll remember them for you and remind you of your appointments when you want her to. You can tell her, “remind me to pick up Chinese food at 6pm.” And she will add it to your calendar and send you a reminder when it’s time. You can even ask her to remember a shopping list! Sandy works perfectly with twitter. And, if you set up twitter for text messaging, you’ll get your reminders anywhere you take your phone. No twitter account? No problem. This can be done through emails, too.
Oh yeah, CB has been home for a few days now. It’s time to really work on what we will be doing in the next few months. So nervous.
* Sorry for breaking up that word. I am being cautious here. After witnessing how “the wall” can shut out web sites with certain keywords, I don’t want any problem for me to access my own sites in the future. Paranoid, huh? Just want to be careful until I understand this thing.
Tags: internet, Zhangjiajie
It’s probably wise, your caution. My husband’s been having problems with his email. We think because we’ve been planning a trip there this summer (late honeymoon) before going back to the States, so there are all these emails going back & forth to travel agencies with it’s name & sometimes referencing the “troubles”.
I’ve heard that word filtering has been beefed up. I saw a short list. Some obvious words. But some I just don’t get. Like J a p a n. Yep. Even that word. :: sigh ::
Are you still going “there”?
I can’t believe that that word has been added, wait yes I can.
We don’t know yet, we hope so, we’re hoping to know more in the middle of April. Why then, that’s when we were told. How they choose dates is sometimes so random.
I’d also read about this and using caution, good idea. Thank you for the twitter link..
I just sent you an email… :^)
Let me know if you start twittering. It’s really fun and also get you connected to all kinds of info. Micro-blogging they say. But it’s looking more and more like chatting. The good thing is you can’t tell who’s online easily. It’s micro-blogging after all. Not chatting!
Got your email! I will reply soon.
It’s good to hear from you even if you have to be a little bit careful
And I really DO think you should be careful out there. I had never heard of “twitter” so you learn something every day 
Stay safe!
Jason? Jason?
Still here. Just busy with more stuff. I’ll post real soon. Not abandoning the blog.