Wow, China just blocked all of Google’s sites.  Literally just now, all we have are whatever is in our browser cache – it’s all blocked.  Stunning, though hardly the last word. 31-03-2010 12:53am Beijing Time – Blocked 31-03-2010 ~10:20am Beijing Time – Not Blocked Interestingly, Google is not blocked at the moment, perhaps what we […]

Today we climbed nearby Laohe Mountain, you can see its location relative to Wenyi Lu in the terrain map courtesy of Google, below:   The second photo is a view south from Gucui Lu, not far from the Wensan Lu intersection,  It gives you some idea how high the mountain is.  Once we had crossed […]

Well folks, it’s been over three weeks since we arrived (back) in HangZhou.  It has been a feature packed three weeks, full of interesting (and some very uninterestng) events.  This is a quick update from the week that was.. On Wednesday night Matt and I played Texas Hold’em poker with a few people out at […]