Comments on: Holy Mao! There are no beaches in Beijing http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/ Dispatches from somewhere far away Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:07:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Chris http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-123 Chris Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:54:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-123 Thanks for all the input. Wordpress is tempting me day by day, and it gets worse everytime I find a new blog that uses it. Maybe it's the open source factor. The only thing that keeps me from making the switch, really, is the idea of having to redirect traffic to a new site for the second time in a year (this site used to be lions-mouth.blogspot.com). Since I use this blog partly as a learning tool, I'm always looking at new widgets I can throw in, and I'm about to add a new blogroll just for online journalism blogs that have been giving me loads of new ideas lately. Thanks for all the input. Wordpress is tempting me day by day, and it gets worse everytime I find a new blog that uses it. Maybe it’s the open source factor. The only thing that keeps me from making the switch, really, is the idea of having to redirect traffic to a new site for the second time in a year (this site used to be lions-mouth.blogspot.com). Since I use this blog partly as a learning tool, I’m always looking at new widgets I can throw in, and I’m about to add a new blogroll just for online journalism blogs that have been giving me loads of new ideas lately.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-124 Anonymous Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:03:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-124 "As is" is fine, since it's content over presentation, but I will be hoenst, wordpress is sooooooo much better for the end user. I once had a blog and had issues downloading the archives with wordpress, but otehr than that I enoyed the experience with it over blogger. If i ever get back to bloggin, it will eb wordpress once again.<BR/><BR/>Hey - wordpress have free hosting, too. Look into it. I'd only recommend - if you go with wordpress - doing the w. p. and blogger simultaneously for a few months (cut and paste!) before abandoning blogger (if you do want out of the google empire). <BR/><BR/>Still, Black background and white type is fine. It's better on the eyes than white background and black type. In fact, since so many people are abandoning black background bogs, yours is a welcome difference (softer on the eyes for long reads).<BR/><BR/>The main thing is to worry about balance in your life before going to the peanut gallery for blog design advice! Really. I'm still astounded by the rude demands of the first anon. poster. It reads like a bad imitation of a California valley girl, <I>like ohmygod!</I> <BR/><BR/>Seriously, just keep the posts comin'. That's all that matters, really. Content drives the quality, not the shiny packaging in an empty box blog syndrome of far too many China blogs. “As is” is fine, since it’s content over presentation, but I will be hoenst, wordpress is sooooooo much better for the end user. I once had a blog and had issues downloading the archives with wordpress, but otehr than that I enoyed the experience with it over blogger. If i ever get back to bloggin, it will eb wordpress once again.

Hey - wordpress have free hosting, too. Look into it. I’d only recommend - if you go with wordpress - doing the w. p. and blogger simultaneously for a few months (cut and paste!) before abandoning blogger (if you do want out of the google empire).

Still, Black background and white type is fine. It’s better on the eyes than white background and black type. In fact, since so many people are abandoning black background bogs, yours is a welcome difference (softer on the eyes for long reads).

The main thing is to worry about balance in your life before going to the peanut gallery for blog design advice! Really. I’m still astounded by the rude demands of the first anon. poster. It reads like a bad imitation of a California valley girl, like ohmygod!

Seriously, just keep the posts comin’. That’s all that matters, really. Content drives the quality, not the shiny packaging in an empty box blog syndrome of far too many China blogs.

]]> By: Chris http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-125 Chris Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:27:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-125 @Anon 2:<BR/>Thanks for the support. To be honest, I flirt with the idea of remaking the entire site every few months. If I start getting enough traffic, I may eventually buy some server space and switch to Wordpress, which looks more appealing than Blogger. The current scheme also seems to look better on my MacBook than on the crappy Windows machines I'm using in this net bar in Lijiang.<BR/><BR/>So...tell me what you like and what you don't, if you're so inclined. Or just sit back and enjoy it as is. @Anon 2:
Thanks for the support. To be honest, I flirt with the idea of remaking the entire site every few months. If I start getting enough traffic, I may eventually buy some server space and switch to Wordpress, which looks more appealing than Blogger. The current scheme also seems to look better on my MacBook than on the crappy Windows machines I’m using in this net bar in Lijiang.

So…tell me what you like and what you don’t, if you’re so inclined. Or just sit back and enjoy it as is.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-126 Anonymous Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:26:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-126 Black on white is fine. Just because one petulant, anonymous soul has their panties in a knot about black and white - that doesn't mean the rest of us are so petty as to not give it a college try.<BR/><BR/>I've been reading your blog for a couple of months now. Please don't change things because one visitor tells you to. Black on white is fine. Just because one petulant, anonymous soul has their panties in a knot about black and white - that doesn’t mean the rest of us are so petty as to not give it a college try.

I’ve been reading your blog for a couple of months now. Please don’t change things because one visitor tells you to.

]]> By: Chris http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-127 Chris Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:54:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-127 @Jeremiah:<BR/>I'm already out, actually. I'm in Zhongdian tonight, after spending two days in Kunming. There's a long post coming when I have more than 30 minutes of internet access and a place to defrost my feet. We're buried in snow up here and I'm looking (still) for a way to head south toward Thailand.<BR/><BR/>I might come back through Beijing, briefly, the first week of March on my way back toward Dalian. @Jeremiah:
I’m already out, actually. I’m in Zhongdian tonight, after spending two days in Kunming. There’s a long post coming when I have more than 30 minutes of internet access and a place to defrost my feet. We’re buried in snow up here and I’m looking (still) for a way to head south toward Thailand.

I might come back through Beijing, briefly, the first week of March on my way back toward Dalian.

]]> By: 花崗齋之愚公 http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-128 花崗齋之愚公 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:20:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-128 Well, there are the seas...houhai, beihai, qian hai, and, if you're feeling lucky and limber, the zhonghai and nanhai. And there's plenty of dirt for beach if you sweep it all into a pile...<BR/><BR/>How long are you in Beijing? Well, there are the seas…houhai, beihai, qian hai, and, if you’re feeling lucky and limber, the zhonghai and nanhai. And there’s plenty of dirt for beach if you sweep it all into a pile…

How long are you in Beijing?

]]> By: Chris http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-129 Chris Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:09:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-129 @Anon 1:<BR/>A redesign might be in the works, though nothing is going to happen before I get back to Dalian in early March. Suggestions are more than welcome. No need to blow a fuse in the meantime.<BR/><BR/>@Nacho Arena:<BR/>Thanks for dropping by. I liked your blog's layout and pictures, but my Spanish is rusty these days so I didn't get much farther. Stop by any time. @Anon 1:
A redesign might be in the works, though nothing is going to happen before I get back to Dalian in early March. Suggestions are more than welcome. No need to blow a fuse in the meantime.

@Nacho Arena:
Thanks for dropping by. I liked your blog’s layout and pictures, but my Spanish is rusty these days so I didn’t get much farther. Stop by any time.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-130 Anonymous Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:17:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-130 i have find your blog by chance and it´s really interesting<BR/><BR/>congratulations from spain.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://nachoarena.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow"><BR/>http://nachoarena.blogspot.com/<BR/> </A><BR/><BR/><BR/>. i have find your blog by chance and it´s really interesting

congratulations from spain.


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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.chrisamico.com/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-131 Anonymous Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:14:00 +0000 http://www.chrisamico.com/blog/2007/02/12/holy-mao-there-are-no-beaches-in-beijing/#comment-131 I was planning on reading your blog, but i can't possible stand reading white on black. WHAT THE FUCK!?<BR/><BR/>P L E A S E change it or offer alternate CSS templates. I was planning on reading your blog, but i can’t possible stand reading white on black. WHAT THE FUCK!?

P L E A S E change it or offer alternate CSS templates.

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