Tomorrow morning, I have a 6am conference call with the states. So I am going to have a relatively early night tonight - as opposed to last night when I got home around 1/1:30. Two old friends of mine are in town, one who left China last year to go to school, the other, I went to uni with. They are a couple now - a very small world. My headphone jack on my powerbook is on the frits.

Um, Yeah! I want one! Check out the rest of the site. Seems like their enjoy their work, judging from the company photo. Um, here’s a hint. Click on the dang picture!

Morning Traffic Originally uploaded by chrisdrum. This is what I go through every morning on my way to work. Intersections like this, there there is no left-turn lane. We get green, the guys waiting to turn left bolt, sometimes getting through before the oncoming traffic gets there; sometimes not. Sometimes it is quite comical. Other times (when you are involved), it gets on your nerves! Note: These guys aren’t moving in the picture… They don’t know what to do!

Flickr, while moving their servers to the US, managed to break the plug-in I am running for my photo gallery. I managed to fix it, sort-of. Turns out that you can’t use the Flickr API with the www.flickr.com URL anymore. I had to modify the code to connect to www-us.flickr.com. I wonder if this is just temporary. Just ignore the strange errors you see, the general gallery function works.

Ever been to a restaurant that didn’t serve free water? There is a restaurant here in Beijing that has some pretty damn good pizza - #2 in Beijing in my book. They don’t however, serve free water. (In fairness, many restaurants here don’t.) They used to. We asked one of the guys running the place, not an owner, but a “consultant”, and he said: “Well, we used to offer free water, but it didn’t work out for us.

I arrived home last night and while in the elevator, the attendant and her friend, two young girls, told me that tomorrow (today) was my country’s birthday. Yikes! Would Americans know about the significance of [October 1, 1949](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China)?