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Peoples' Park, Matchmaking Market On Sunday morning, my daughters were at a matinee of the new Despicable Me movie with their classmates near Peoples Square so I had some time on my hands.I popped into

Take two large boneless chicken breasts and marinate for a couple of hours in some stuff (may include dark soy sauce, oregano flakes, ground parmesan and just hint of sriracha). Prepare a bed of other

I've noticed that photos without an associated text post get much less attention here on Steemit. It's a shame, because my initial impression was that Steemit was about content. Most here seem to express

Fox news gets so excited it mixes up its millions and its billions when talking about Bitcoin here.

Some years ago, I heard the analogy that I'm about to repeat below. It basically reinforced the old premise that China is a nation of copycats. When I heard it, it struck a chord, but I also felt that

An alternative view isn't always the safest view.

It all depends on your viewpoint.

Sometimes, we just need to look at the world from a different viewpoint to find our direction.

According to this article, yes.  I've been using Lightroom since before version 1. It could do with some more, reasonably priced, competition.  Over the years, Adobe has added functionality and

Haiku Generator A few months ago, I wrote a Haiku Generation script in PHP. The parser takes a text file (as large as possible) and separates it into sentences. It then uses some open source code by David

If you're struggling to explain blockchain to non-technical friends and relatives, this article on LinkedIn is a good start.

As a BTC / blockchain /cryptocurrency novice, life has been a pretty steep learning curve recently. This news today is going to take some digesting. I'd appreciate any thoughts and feedback on what this

Watching, just watching.

One thing that I find odd about life in China, even after living here for almost 8 years is the way that some businesses literally drill their staff at the start of every working day.  This hair salon

One shilling = Five Pee.  Two Farthings = One Ha’penny.  Two Ha’pennies = One Penny.  Three Pennies = A Thrupenny Bit.  Two Thrupences = A Sixpence.  Two Sixpences = One Shilling,

Consider, if you will, an imaginary photographic equipment market, of about 20 years ago.  Nikon has recently released its top of the range FSLR camera, the F800. This camera uses Nikon's own branded

A few years ago, I blogged the following article on the, long gone, edexpat.com site. These days fidget spinners and cubes are all the rage. My daughters both have spinners and can’t seem to put them down.

When I'm wandering the streets of Shanghai (or any city for that matter), I try to remember to look up every now and then. The photos that present themselves can give a unique perspective on the city.