Thanks for all of the great feedback I’ve been getting over the other Friday’s in China articles! Please keep the comments coming. If there’s anything you want to hear about from my trip, please comment below, send me an email (me@robbysblog.com) or get a hold of me on Facebook. Now that you’ve endured several articles [...]
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This is going to be the first in another series of blog posts on Tech Psychology, the complex relationship between the new-to-average user and technology; How to own your tech and not let it own you. Sooner or later, everyone has computer problems; either it’s as slow as the Detroit Lions offense, or for some [...]
In the last installment of Fridays in China, I talked about how Chinese culture is different, and yet the same, and how China is divided, and yet unified. Arguably one of the clearest (and most visible) pieces of evidence for this is transportation; simply the way people get around. China’s transportation system(s) are extremely diverse, [...]
They’re all pirates, according to a recent Twitter post by media giant, Rupert Murdoch. While a lot of internet users these days won’t see the comparison as an insult, the allegation comes as a coalition of media giants dukes it out against websites like Google over the infamous SOPA bill now being discussed in Congress. [...]
This article comes as the first installment of what will be a long series of weekly updates (published every Friday) on my recent travels in China, saturated with pictures, and inter-spliced with a bit hindsight. You can Subscribe to get emails whenever a new article comes out. This first article, I hope to introduce you [...]
I’ve now been back for a few weeks. I’m so sorry that I lost track of posting everything. I guess everything was happening faster than I could write about it. Anyway, re-adjusting has proven much more difficult than I first imagined. It may be because I invested myself in China, and applied myself well to [...]
This coming Thursday, I will be visiting the Forbidden City, the former seat of the emperor, in the direct center of Beijing. The red walls and ornate gatehouses appear much smaller than they actually are, perhaps as an illusion of the sprawling courtyards throughout. The Forbidden City, known as Gu Gong in Chinese, served as [...]
The other day, I got the privilege of visiting a town that is probably the ancient Chinese equivalent of the American small town. The town looks just about the same today as it did five hundred years ago, complete with the old style of architecture (a good number of the structures are original), traditional Chinese [...]
Many of those disgruntled with Facebook’s new and more complicated features, as well as rampant privacy issues, will be glad to know that Tumblr, a blogging service, may be the answer they’ve been looking for. Your friends don’t need to make an account to see what you post, and your account isn’t tied to your [...]
I was sailing smoothly, eating well and cheaply, when the fall cold that’s been going around finally chose me as it’s next victim. I’ve been a little under the weather lately, and have had to postpone Poverty Week a bit. Although I can eat healthy food on Poverty Week, it’s not always convenient to find, [...]