Archive for the ‘Computer’ Category

“Learn Chinese” iGoogle Page 2.0

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

I've been adding more RSS feeds to the "Learn Chinese" iGoogle Page ever since its initial release. So I thought it was time for an update. For those of you early adopters who've been with us from the beginning, you'll have to add it afresh to your iGoogle home page to ...

MDBG Dictionary Plugin for WordPress

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Ok everyone (Joel), the suspense is over. I have been working with (read: begging) MDBG for the past few weeks to develop and test something that will make self-hosted Wordpress bloggers' lives better. I'm very proud to announce the arrival of the MDBG wordpress plugin (fanfare please)! My favorite feature is the automatic ...

“Learn Chinese” iGoogle Page Grand Unveiling

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

[Update: see also also "Learn Chinese" 2.0] (Click here for audio soundtrack for this post) [audio:fanfare.mp3] This is the greatly anticipated (by me) and severely anticlimactic (to you) kāimùshì 开幕式 of my "secret plan" for all those Chinese-learning RSS feeds: A "Learn Chinese" iGoogle page! (Add the button to your ...

Wanted: Chinese-Learning Blog List

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

[UPDATE: In addition to my iGoogle Page, I recommend Lingomi's Chinese Blog List.] The Quest I don't think there are very many blogs about learning Chinese. Now wait a minute! Before you start throwing your shoes at me, I mean blogs that are EXCLUSIVELY (or at least MOSTLY) about learning the language ...

Wanted: Chinese Name Gender Reference

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

[Update: Found it! See this.] I sometimes get emails from Chinese people that are friends of friends, or someone I've never actually met, and I'm not really sure if it's a boy or girl. There was no way to know ahead of time because it was always "tā" when my ...