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 8, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized
I upgraded my PGP to the latest version to support Vista – working well – even the GroupWise C3PO works reasonably.
I took the plunge and did the Whole Disk Encryption for my laptop. Wow. 60GB of data encrypted in 3 hours. Now I get the PGP WDE sign on at boot, I use my home Active Directory password and I get single-sign-on into Vista. Very well implemented.
Now I’m less worried about travelling with my laptop and confidential data. BIOS password and physical security are part of the solution; but crypto for the whole disk is important.
It’s also a lot easier than the Vista Bitlocker. It works with 2000, XP and Vista – and does not require TPM on the workstation. My T42p works flawlessly so far.
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