My friends in China complaint they cann't access my travelogue website:http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx?q=www.i-fotos.net.

 

 

I check Google Analytics, which I set to trace the traffic to i-fotos. It confirms that there isn’t a hit from mainland China in recent few weeks. The last clicks were recorded consecutively from Beijing for about 5 days.

 

The website is wrote in both Chinese and English and contains nothing remotly relevant to p0litics yet even unlikely to China's p0litics. The only thing II recall is some reference to the 60s border war between China and India during my research. Oh, maybe my research reveals the great escape route for Tibetean refugees.  

 

Won't be surprise if they arrested me next I travel bak to the motherland. So that is it, I guess. In China everything is politics.

This is a critic on new EU budget plan (2007-2013) in Chinese.

欧洲议会未来7年预算(2007-2013)：德国仍第一，英国增加65%，意大利增加135%， 法国增加115%。欧盟300亿的农业补贴基本不动(法国是最大受益国)。大幅度增加预算的原因是因为新加盟的原东欧国家需要财政支持。

所谓欧盟共同农业政策

(CAP)-农业补贴基本上就是用纳税人的钱补助农民，以压低其农产品价格，而在国际市场上有竞争力。发展中国家对此特别恼火。

在同一时间，欧洲议会主席

Peter Manderson(布莱尔旧部)在香港WTO声称，问题的关键不在于北美和欧盟的农业补贴，而是在于低估了BRIC (巴西，俄国，印度，中国)-所谓‘发达的发展中国家’的实力 - 应当取消其WTO的优待政策。

布莱尔是非常希望利用其

6个月欧盟主席的机会改革CAP，他甚至承诺放弃退税(Tax rebate)。可惜遭遇法国总统希拉克的强烈阻拦。其他新加入欧盟成员国也是各打小算盘，担心CAP变了后自己享受的‘福利’没有原来‘承诺’的多了。

这句话是希拉克送给布莱尔的

:'...displaying much courage in his difficult political gesture'。

向布莱尔的骑士精神致敬。

唾弃希拉克懦夫，卑鄙小人。

(参考今天Sunday Times 新闻头条 ‘Brown fury at Blair EU climbdown' - 一篇短视，挑拨离间，幸灾乐祸期待布莱尔被煎熬的文章。)

This is not your average cuddlies with a ‘Made in China’ label on the butt. They are REAL babe pandas.

This year (2005) Wolong Giant Panda Reservation & Research Centers enjoys a bumper year. 16 babe panda were born at the centre, including 5 twins.

Captive giant panda Bear is known for low sex desire. In 2002 researchers at Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base (not far from Wolon) found it is very’ effective’ to rouse male Pandas by showcasing prono movies (yeah, X-rate panda mating prono).

(CNN June 27, 2002 Posted: 3:30 PM EDT (1930 GMT)

CHENGDU, China -- China is flicking on sex videos, and not Viagra, to rouse the dreary desires of captive male giant pandas who are famously indifferent to female overtures.

As notoriously sex-shy giant pandas reach adulthood in China -- around the age of six -- they are now routinely given ringside seats to panda porn as part of their initiation rites.

When Didi turned six on Tuesday at the China Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in Wolong, he sat eyes glued in front of a screen that showed a video of two giant pandas mating, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

"Didi seemed to like his gift immensely," it reported of his coming of age.(CNN.com - Panda porn to cure bedtime blues - June 27, 2002 )

Judging by the outcome this year all are going well. :-)

A classic case study on data protection, anti-priracy from bbc http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4459620.stm

 

The two lawsiuts against Sony (BMG)

1.Using Sypware with CD to prevent copying CD to other storage device. The XCP installed virus like software on to PC without consumer acknowledgment
2.Using XCP to collect user data.

If the cases established, it could bring down Sony BMG, because it is not Microsoft.

 

Interestingly, my first reaction is "my internet connection is broken" because 'google never down. A histroical moment.

 

More update soon (if google is back soon).

 

Okay Google is back at 15:01.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the victim of bird flu, the first case report in UK. It died last Thursday (20/10/2005) at Heathrow airport. It was in quarantine after being imported from Suriname,was in quarantine after being imported from Suriname.

 

Experts now fear the virus may be passed on though air condition system.

 

Idiom: If someone's sick as a parrot about something, they are unhappy, disappointed or depressed about it.