by ezs | Apr 14, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
I visited the Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing yesterday with Laurence.
It is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastries in the world; there is considerable controversy about the political freedom of the Tibetan Buddhists – certainly the monks in the monastry were all goverment approved.
That aside – it was a very tranquil and relaxing end to the day. The road to the monastry was lined with shops selling insense sticks; the smell of sandalwood was incredible.
Two more large panoramas – they are large files so download may be slow. The originals are massive.
by ezs | Apr 13, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
Art imitating life?
Here is the advertising promotion for ‘Shangri-la towers’ in the film Brazil:
And here is the poster I saw on the Beijing subway:
by ezs | Apr 12, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Most of the visitors to the Novell office here in Beijing are from the US – and get ferried around in a company car with driver.
The first time I was here with Laurence we wanted to stay at the Marriott – a whole 15 minutes away; we got a lot of pressure from the local team to stay at the ‘company approved’ hotel just a 2 minute walk (or a 2 minute drive!) from the office.
This time we just made our own bookings and are staying about 20 minutes from the office; nearer the city center.
We’ve been commuting in on the Beijing subway. That’s an experience.
Not so much “Mind the Doors” – at every door there is a uniformed subway employee who physically pushes people into the train.
The walk to the office is also interesting – every crossing has a uniformed crossing guard keeping people moving and traffic moving.
by ezs | Apr 11, 2007 | fun stuff, Uncategorized
I’m a-logging bugs against code.
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon:
Usual disclaimers – (c) Scott Adams and all that
by ezs | Apr 11, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
I flew into Beijing last Sunday – it was (surprisingly) a clear and sunny day. The Great Wall of China was clearly visible as we flew into Beijing.
by ezs | Apr 5, 2007 | Evangelism, evilzenscientist, patching, Uncategorized
My IMAP patch got included in the latest update to Copfilter.
- fix: fixes from various copfilter forum users (see the bugs section in the forum or
CHANGELOG for the details), most important ones are mentioned below
- fix: fix in cron.daily (it could hang) – thx DaPinky
- fix: IMAP Buffer increase (it could hang) – thx evilzenscientist
- fix: deleting a huge amount of mails from the spam quarantine is now possible – thx mdages
- fix: proxsmtp/tmp could get filled up without removal of old files – thx Alevizos Dimitrios
- new: ability to sort spam quarantine by columns (ex. by score level) – thx taurus
Nice to see my stuff make it 🙂 Officially “I don’t write code”
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