February, 2006

The Click That Broke China’s Grip

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

“The top editors of the China Youth Daily were meeting in a conference room last August when their cell phones started buzzing quietly with text messages. One after another, they discreetly read the notes. Then they traded nervous glances.”

I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that people use the Internet to get around the draconian restrictions of China, but it’s really cool to read about people actually doing it.

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Doing too many things at once

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Why oh why do I persist in trying to do waaay too many things at once?

At the moment I’ve got three web sites under development. Only one of those (freewebhosters.info) is currently online, and as it is it’s terrible and doesn’t get any traffic because of that. Practical Pupil, my student organiser site, is taking a long time mainly because I can’t make up my mind as to how to do things.

And to top it all off, I’m forever suffering from attacks of procrastination and indecision. Gah.