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There's a new segment in this blog called: That's technology!

That's technology!

A guy at work showed me his camera a couple of weeks ago. Here's how it works: you point it at someone, it detects where the person's face is and puts a square around it, you click the button to take the shot, and the camera waits for the person to smile before it takes the shot. That's technology!

Regular blog again

This guy really knows how to make it happen: this one

To the left there's a view from my apartment window. That can't be good for the ol' lungs. There have been worse days than that for smog, but there have been a lot of ones better than that too.

hot toddy

H. Workman is playing the Jack Singer in March. Sign me up, but I'm kind of disappointed that the Mount Royal and UofC concerts are over. You could get up close and personal. Also, the new song on his website isn't doing it for me.

I'm trying to get rid of my cold by taxing my liver. It's worked before.

My brother was here in Beijing for the last week. It was action packed. We walked so much that our dogs were constantly barking, we saw a fantastic wall, we ate duck. He got me into paying more attention to Chinese characters, and it's helped a lot. I know three characters so far.