Welcome to my blog archives. I’ve been writing this blog in some form since 2007. Here is a complete archive of my past posts.
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Blog Archive
Oct 2, 2024
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Chop Wood, Carry Water by Stellar Mammals & Jacob Burgdorf: My Fifth Music Album Release
Jun 25, 2024
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AI Included Disclosure Acknowledgment (AIDA): Why Artists Should Disclose AI Use in Their Creations
Jan 20, 2024
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A Year of Creativity: Inputs, Outputs and Insights from 2023
Jan 9, 2024
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How are you using ChatGPT?: How I Track and Reflect on my AI usage with Quantified ChatGPT
Jan 4, 2024
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A Year in Book Reading: 2023
Jan 2, 2024
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A Year in Time: 2023
Nov 18, 2023
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Book Notes: The History and Ethics of Authenticity: Meaning, Freedom, and Modernity by Kyle Michael James Shuttleworth
Nov 17, 2023
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Book Notes: On Being Authentic by Charles Guignon
Nov 16, 2023
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Book Notes: The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
Oct 24, 2023
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Tangible Artistic Creations: Why Creative Output Matters
Oct 18, 2023
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The Power of Project Notes: How Capturing and Organizing Your Thoughts Can Help You Make Progress on Your Goals
Oct 11, 2023
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Growth Hacking Deck: Your Ultimate Playbook and Scorecard for Strategizing Growth and Piloting Traction Experiments
Sep 12, 2023
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40 Years Young: A Birthday Life Reflection
Jun 27, 2023
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AI as a Journaling Companion: How I Enhance My Creativity and Self-Awareness using ChatGPT
May 19, 2023
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Tracking Attention in the Eyes: How We Built an Data-Driven AR App at AT&T 5G Hackathon
Apr 21, 2023
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Creative Organization: How I Used a Spreadsheet to Streamline My Creative Process, Finish Songs Efficiently and Release My Latest Album
Jan 9, 2023
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My 2022 Annual Review
Jan 6, 2023
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A Year in Time: 2022
Jan 2, 2023
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A Year in Book Reading: 2022
Dec 12, 2022
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A Year in Time: 2021
Dec 10, 2022
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A Year in Book Reading: 2021
Mar 29, 2022
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Book Notes: McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality by Ronald Purser
Jan 28, 2022
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Time Management as Life Philosophy: Book Notes on Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Dec 2, 2021
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Data-Driven Growth Hacking: An Experimental, Iterative Approach to Finding and Acquiring Your First Customers
Mar 16, 2021
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A Year in Tasks, Projects and Goals: 2020
Mar 15, 2021
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A Year in Time: 2020
Mar 17, 2020
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Tracking Flow: Guide to Quantifying Momentary Mental States
Mar 5, 2020
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Science of Flow: Nature's Peak Performance Enhancer
Feb 6, 2020
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A Year in Writing and Creating: 2019
Feb 5, 2020
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A Year in Reading: 2019
Feb 2, 2020
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A Year in Health and Fitness: 2019
Jan 31, 2020
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A Year in Tasks, Projects and Goals: 2019
Jan 30, 2020
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A Year in Time: 2019
Oct 2, 2019
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Gordon Bell and The Epic Quest to Digitalize Everything
Aug 2, 2019
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No YouTube: 30-Day Challenge
Jul 16, 2019
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Can Meditation Improve Your Attention? Self-Experiment into Mindfulness and Cognitive Testing
Jul 15, 2019
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Scoring Your Weekly Goals
Jun 20, 2019
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Quantified Self and Self-Tracking Mind Map: Conceptualizing Tracking and Other Data-Driven Tech
Mar 8, 2019
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Science of Goals: Goals as a Multi-Stage Pursuit
Feb 28, 2019
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Tracking Your Writings and Note-Taking
Feb 14, 2019
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The Plain Text Life: Note Taking, Writing and Life Organization Using Plain Text Files
Jan 8, 2019
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A Year in Data: 2018
Jan 3, 2019
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What should you be tracking in 2019?
Jan 1, 2019
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My Year in Book Reading: 2018
Dec 11, 2018
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Post-Evernote: How to Migrate Your Evernote Notes, Images and Tags into Plain Text Markdown
Nov 26, 2018
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The Power of Systematic Notes: A Book Review of How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Jun 8, 2018
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Why People Self-Track: Research on the Motivations Behind the Quantified Self and Self-Trackers
May 16, 2018
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How to Track Your YouTube Watching (And Understand It)
Apr 20, 2018
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How I Write (2018): My Favorite Tools and Apps for Writing
Mar 14, 2018
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Heart Rate Variability: Science and Advanced Concepts for Understanding a Key Health Indicator
Feb 27, 2018
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How to Track Your Workouts: Become Data-Driven in Your Physical Fitness, Health and Performance
Feb 22, 2018
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Biomarkers: What are they? Why they matter? And how to use them to improve our health?
Feb 21, 2018
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Biomarkers: Complete List of Most Common Biomarkers and Blood Tests (and some lessons learned)
Jan 17, 2018
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An Exploration of Mood Tracking: Can We Measure How We Feel?
Jan 5, 2018
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2017 My Annual Review
Jan 3, 2018
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A Year in Numbers: My Data from 2017
Dec 29, 2017
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My Year in Book Reading: 2017
Dec 12, 2017
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A Year in Self-Tracking: Q4 2017 Update
Nov 14, 2017
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Tracking Your Blood Pressure, a vital sign
Aug 23, 2017
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Track Your Podcast Listening with Screenshots
Aug 8, 2017
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Types of Self Tracking: Passive vs Manual Tracking
Jun 29, 2017
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The Data-Driven Weekly Review: How to Use Data and Self-Reflection for Iterative Improvements
Jun 28, 2017
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Export Your Apple Health Workouts to Your Calendar
Jun 18, 2017
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How to Unpack
Jun 8, 2017
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The First Quantified Self Tracker: A History of Weighing Scales from 17th Century Weighing Chair to Today's Smart Scales
May 25, 2017
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Why Track Your Workouts?
May 16, 2017
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Heart Rate Variability: The Amazing Biomarker for Understanding Our Body, Health and Fitness
Apr 29, 2017
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Tracking Your Tasks with Todoist
Apr 11, 2017
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A Year in Self-Tracking: Q1 2017 Update
Mar 22, 2017
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Getting Things Done with Todoist
Mar 3, 2017
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Self-Tracking on Apple Watch 2 - A Review
Feb 23, 2017
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How to Track Your Sleep
Feb 14, 2017
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Some Great Books on Running: Personal Reviews, Takeaways and Quotes from Runner-Writers
Jan 23, 2017
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Running in Angkor Wat and Siem Reap, Cambodia
Jan 6, 2017
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My 2016 Annual Review
Jan 3, 2017
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My Year in Podcast Listening: 2016
Jan 2, 2017
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2017: Here's What I'll Be Tracking
Nov 22, 2016
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Documenting a Life, One Photo at a Time
Nov 21, 2016
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A Liquid Life: Hydration Tracking or Some Science and Self-Experiments in Measurement
Nov 8, 2016
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Moment: Automatic Track and Know Your iPhone Usage
Nov 4, 2016
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Tracking Your Book Reading, Data Points to the Soul
Oct 25, 2016
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How to Get Your iPhone Usage Data
Oct 24, 2016
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Tracking TV & Movie Watching with Trakt.TV
Oct 17, 2016
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Run Smarter: Run Tracking and Personal Data Using RunKeeper
Sep 20, 2016
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Tracking Your Meditation Sessions with Calm
Sep 16, 2016
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Tracking the Soundtrack of Your Life
Sep 15, 2016
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Counting Steps: An Entry into the Quantified Self Movement
Aug 26, 2016
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Tracking Everything: Prologue from an Obsessive Tracker
Aug 9, 2016
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Flossing Daily or How to Build a Life Habit
Jun 13, 2016
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2000 Books Reading Challenge
Jun 6, 2016
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Metrics for Rating China’s Startup Community
May 3, 2016
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My Tools of Productive Awesome-ness
Feb 26, 2016
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What We Know (and Need to Know) About Happiness
Feb 11, 2016
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Time to Run: A Beginner's Journey Training to Run 5K
Jan 11, 2016
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How I Tracked a Year in Time and What It Meant
Jan 5, 2016
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My 2015 Annual Review
Jan 4, 2016
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Techstars in China in 2015: The Promise and the Progress
Jan 1, 2016
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A Year in Reading: 2015
Oct 12, 2015
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A One-Way Ticket, Destinations Undecided
Sep 28, 2015
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Time Tracking = Conscious Time Usage
Sep 27, 2015
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On Writing: Find a Topic that Pulls You, Then Just Write
Sep 4, 2015
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Control Your Brand, Grow Your Business (Part 4): Partnerships and Business Development in China
Aug 28, 2015
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Control Your Brand, Grow Your Business (Part 1)
Aug 11, 2015
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What do startup conferences mean for a startup community?
Jul 27, 2015
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China's Startup Scene, Circa 2015: Some Lessons Learned
Jun 24, 2015
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Six Months In: 2015 so far in China for Startup Weekend, Techstars, Startup Next and Co.
Feb 19, 2015
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UP Global in China: Where are we going in 2015?
Feb 18, 2015
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UP Global in China: 2010 to 2014
Feb 15, 2015
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Sad Lost Digital Letters
Nov 1, 2014
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Startup Weekend in China: Going Forward
Sep 29, 2014
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Re-Engaging China
Aug 27, 2014
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My Journey as a Digital Nomad
Jul 27, 2014
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A Digital Nomad in Isla Mujeres: Diving and Whale Sharks
Apr 25, 2014
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Tioman Island Travel and Diving: Tech Travel Advice
Apr 23, 2014
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Inbox Zen: Inbox Zero, A Year Later
Apr 22, 2014
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Romanization and Memorable New Words: Reflections on Hacking My Initial Studies of Korean
Apr 2, 2014
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Introducing the Traveling Entrepreneur
Dec 17, 2013
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Hacking Burmese: Learning Burmese Essentials Fast
Dec 14, 2013
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Burmese: Notes about the Language
Nov 29, 2013
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Self-Tracking with AskMeEvery
Oct 6, 2013
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Finally Speaking Spanish in Colombia
Aug 12, 2013
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A Winning Pitch: Travelance at Startup Weekend, Cartagena
Jul 27, 2013
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Country List
Jul 15, 2013
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On Turning 30: How have I spent my days?
May 11, 2013
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Distracted Reading vs. Conscious Reading: Some thoughts on technologies and mindsets for reading today
May 1, 2013
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Post Facebook? Or Perhaps the Value of Less Facebook
Apr 30, 2013
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Technology Landscape and Me
Apr 29, 2013
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Language Learning is all about Persistance
Apr 22, 2013
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Prose.io: The Missing Content Editor for Jekyll
Apr 21, 2013
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Migrating from WordPress to Octopress / Jekyll
Jan 7, 2013
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Gathering My Learning Resources: Self-Learning Through Listening with Pimsler and SpanishPod (My Diary on Learning Spanish #2)
Sep 28, 2012
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Not Being the Tag-Along Reflection
Aug 26, 2012
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Summer Reflections: a step up to the next step unseen
Aug 26, 2012
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Can Our Code “Sing the Body Electric”?: Trying to Connect Personal Ramblings with a Coded Testament
Aug 31, 2011
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Thoughts on First Startup Weekend Taipei: Part 2
Aug 17, 2011
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Thoughts on First Startup Weekend Taipei: Part 1
Mar 23, 2011
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Open Source Education: Thoughts
Feb 24, 2011
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Learning Well Together: Announcing Language-Corner.org
Nov 6, 2010
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Working Together: Wiki, ESL Writing Project Update
Nov 6, 2010
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QQ: Opiate of today’s Chinese netizens
Oct 16, 2010
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Count the Animals
Oct 15, 2010
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My Cats Were Stolen By the Cantonese
Sep 5, 2010
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Previous Posts from Blogger Imported
Jul 8, 2010
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Mark with New Chinese Business Licenses
May 30, 2010
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Hello world!
Apr 11, 2009
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Is it stealing to repost other people’s content? : How to define Information Theft in a Digital Age
Feb 26, 2009
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The Word of Science: A Story Still to Tell
Feb 9, 2009
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Oil Apocalypse Now? (Documentary)
Jan 14, 2009
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Taken for a Ride (Documentary)
Jan 14, 2009
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Philip Zimbardo: The Time Paradox
Dec 26, 2008
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Geography of China in Maps
Dec 25, 2008
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Religulous (Documentary, 2008)
Dec 20, 2008
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China kills chickens to frighten monkeys
Dec 10, 2008
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Knocks and Noises
Dec 1, 2008
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Weekly Links, Dec. 1, 2008
Nov 24, 2008
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Weekly Links Nov 24, 2008
Nov 16, 2008
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Weekly Links, Nov. 18, 2008
Nov 15, 2008
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Tom Carter’s Two-Year China Photo Odyssey
Nov 15, 2008
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Les âmes délocalisées
Nov 11, 2008
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Globalization and Internationalism in a Starbucks Cup
Nov 10, 2008
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SURVEY: Views on AIDS in China
Nov 10, 2008
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Let me paint you a picture
Nov 9, 2008
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Weekly Links November 9, 2008
Nov 3, 2008
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Opening notes: Reflected Places
Nov 2, 2008
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Weekly Links November 2, 2008
Oct 23, 2008
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Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Oct 9, 2008
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Maps, Postcards, and the Fragrant Remainder: Constructing a world that feels like home
Oct 8, 2008
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Weekly Links, October 8, 2008
Sep 13, 2008
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Her legs were shaking, and her back was arched
Sep 4, 2008
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Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
May 30, 2008
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Weekly Links, May 30, 2008
May 29, 2008
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Sociétés de contrôle, par Gilles Deleuze
May 27, 2008
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Carnivals…
May 25, 2008
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Definitions of (Religious) Faith
May 21, 2008
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Daniel Kemmis’s Communitarianism: Towards the ‘Human Enterprise’ of Community and Community Building
May 20, 2008
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Weekly Links, May 20, 2008
May 14, 2008
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Dervish Wisdom: The Story of Fire
May 7, 2008
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Hangzhou, China Map
May 5, 2008
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Zhijiang Province
Apr 30, 2008
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Stop Eating Animals
Apr 29, 2008
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Vengeful Paths to Truth
Apr 25, 2008
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Weekly Links, April 25, 2008
Apr 25, 2008
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Universality or Transculturality of Human Rights?
Apr 24, 2008
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Weekly Links, April 23, 2008
Apr 24, 2008
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It asked a crumb of me
Apr 24, 2008
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Increasing Prices, Reevaluating Productive Choice
Apr 19, 2008
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Weekly Links, April 18, 2008
Apr 16, 2008
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Philosophy and the Scientific World-View by John Searle
Apr 14, 2008
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Rights and Diversity: A Swedish Minister’s views on Gender Equality in an Immigrant Country
Apr 13, 2008
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Apr 11, 2008
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Weekly Links, April 11, 2008
Apr 11, 2008
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Breed’s General Principles of Communicatory Modes
Apr 5, 2008
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de Waal: Social Organization among Various Primates
Apr 4, 2008
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Weekly Links, April 3, 2008
Apr 3, 2008
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Map of China
Apr 3, 2008
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It took dominion every where
Apr 2, 2008
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Dervish Wisdom: The Grammarian and the Dervish
Mar 27, 2008
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Retour à l’America: 01 – A middle-dweller goes home
Mar 26, 2008
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The Carnival of Travel Guide #12
Mar 26, 2008
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A Guide to the French. Handle With Care, By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Mar 25, 2008
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Weekly Links, March 24, 2008
Mar 21, 2008
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The reader became the book
Mar 19, 2008
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Carnivals of Liberals and Political Punditry
Mar 10, 2008
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Weekly Links, March 10, 2008
Mar 3, 2008
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Weekly Links, March 3, 2008
Feb 21, 2008
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Weekly Links, February 22, 2008
Feb 21, 2008
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Language as Imitative, Intersubjective Communication, Pt. 2: Conversing beyond the Static, Cognitive Model of Language
Feb 21, 2008
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Language as Imitative, Intersubjective Communication, Pt. 1: Nocturnal Cat Scratching and Mistaken Assumptions about Language
Feb 17, 2008
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Weekly Links, February 16, 2008
Feb 10, 2008
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Weekly Links, February 9, 2008
Feb 4, 2008
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Should the national anthem be changed?
Feb 4, 2008
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Love without God: St Paul on Love
Feb 2, 2008
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Weekly Links, February 1, 2008
Jan 27, 2008
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Weekly Links, January 26, 2008
Jan 27, 2008
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Shakespeare on Love
Jan 23, 2008
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The Future of Economic, Political, Socio-cultural, and Ethical Interconnections: What if all borders were abolished? (Part 2)
Jan 23, 2008
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The Future of Economic, Political, Socio-cultural, and Ethical Interconnections: What if all borders were abolished? (Part 1)
Jan 18, 2008
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Mapping our Place in the Virtual World: Pt. 1. Universal and Planetary Human Right to Freedom of Internet Speech
Jan 13, 2008
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Making Sense of Iraq: Start changing your point-of-view
Dec 19, 2007
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History of Western Metaphysics and Political Thought, Pt. 2: Early Usages and Implications of the Metaphor Body-Politic
Dec 19, 2007
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History of Western Metaphysics and Political Thought, Pt. 1: Introduction to the Intertwining of Language and Metaphysics
Dec 17, 2007
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My use or return to the use of the term “American”
Dec 14, 2007
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The Loser Within: On Bukowski’s Ham on Rye (1982)
Dec 12, 2007
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A Poetic Investigation: I had no time to Hate—Pt. 1
Nov 30, 2007
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Let's Face It! What is Facebook doing to us?
Nov 30, 2007
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A Modest Proposal for Geographical Determinism