Dave’s Wagon

I feel compelled to share something that has made my time in China and my time spent studying Chinese markedly less frustrating. It’s called PlecoDict, and it’s a Chinese/English dictionary app for PDAs (Palm OS and Pocket PC). A friend of mine recommended it to me before I departed for China and though it was […]

Found via Slashdot, an interesting article at News.com about the differences between the English and Chinese versions of Wikipedia:
Wikipedia lays bare two versions of China’s past

Props to my favorite blogging produce, the Weifang Radish (mirrored), for finding an excellent proxy site in the form of Proxzee.com. Having used Anonymouse as my proxy of choice for accessing “non-kosher” websites in China during the past several months, Proxzee has three advantages that are immediately apparent to me:

Proxzee is much faster than Anonymouse […]

For those of you who have been in China long enough to acquire some useful local knowledge, might I suggest you head over to Wikitravel and contribute your gems of wisdom.
Wikitravel is a wiki-based (i.e. user-contributed) travel guide website, and while there is already some great information on China and its major cities on the […]

If you haven’t already heard, the Chinese government has apparently unblocked Wikipedia here.
I failed to notice this initially as I’ve been viewing the encyclopedia through a mirror, but when I saw this article in my Slashdot news feed today, I punched up the site, and it loaded without problem. Not surprisingly, certain “sensitive terms” still […]