Incense sticks are a very convenient form of incense due to their easy portability and ease of use. All incense sticks are self burning and do not require a separate heat source such as coal to burn. Incense sticks also produce a steady and clean stream of smoke and burn for a decent amount of time. As a result of all these factors, the stick is a very popular form of incense and many cultures ...

[js]Only three people in the house eat this dish.Father, Mother and I.I don't know why the rest of our household don't eat this dish, because it's delicious. And healthy too. I always feel virtuous when I eat this with brown rice.In short, ready to sin again. ;)Ampalaya, or Bitter Melon, gets a bad rap because -- well, it's supposedly bitter -- but it isn't really that bitter.A lot of the bitterness can be blanched away, ...

One of the recurring themes of China’s reforms and opening up over the past thirty years has been the expansion of China’s private sector, usually at the expense of the public sector, or government-invested industries. This is a theme which has been often overlooked in the west, even by westerners in China, as they are more focused on the relationship with western companies, specifically Western Foreign-Owned Enterprises (WFOEs). There are three important components in the ...

Staring from the beginning of this month, ChinesePod and other podcast sites run by Praxis Languages stopped offering access to all podcasts for non-paying members except for the Newbie level. I had not intended to write anything about it because how they decide to make revenue to sustain their business is none of my business and something they would know much better about. However, after seeing how they actually implemented the changes, I feel like ...

I am a fan of Apple’s products. I believe that the hardware is well-designed, and so is the software. In particular, I believe that the design philosophy behind Objective-C and Cocoa frameworks are the best thought-out and implemented tools for any developer looking for a strong and robust environment for object-oriented programming. Like other Apple fans, I get excited at the new hardware the company puts out on a regular basis. I have reconciled myself ...

One of my biggest complaints about western observers of China is the overly used term “China market”. In fact, there is no China market, just as there is no European market. While there is a European Union, which many Europeans complain about as some kind of bloated legislative bureaucratic monster, it would be silly for any marketer to think that there is anything like a European market on the ground. After all, what are you ...

Here are some interesting pictures from a man named "Liu Bolin". The author was born in 1973. Here you can find more works from Bolin. I loved the package of photos so much not only because he really looks like an invisible man but also due to the metaphor behind the photos. FYI: After China shifted from a closed state to a more opened one, there are more and more great arts from the Chinese ...

Yeehamandarin是一个提供在线视频中文教学服务的网站。Yeehamandarin可以帮助老外系统的学习中文，通过在线视频教学可以系统学习短语，词汇，语法，演讲等等（Dialogue | Characters | Vocabulary | Core Sentences | Grammar | Pronunciation），用户可以根据自己的时间来制定学习计划表，Yeehamandarin会根据你的学习时间给你培训，也会给出相应的学习报告。 个人觉得在中文视频培训，应该还是有一定发展的一个行业，北京奥运之后，相信肯定会有很多老外对学习中文产生兴趣，光凭借视频要想达到很好的教学效果可能比较困难吧（谁让中文是最难的语言的），不过专注线下中文培训的机构也随时可以进入这个领域，如果线上做的好的话，线下机构肯定蜂拥进入。 目前Yeehamandarin还处于起步阶段，个人觉得在几方面还是可以考虑一下的，一是可以考虑比较晚上的网上视频教学+一对一人工教学（Live Video或者语音），另外是否也可以尝试一下线上和线下相结合的方式，此外，还是需要加强在目标客户群中的推广。 链接：http://www.yeehamandarin.com/ 相关文章推荐12seconds:12秒视频微博客服务（附10个邀请） (9)Smetube：产品评论类视频分享网站 (2)Scrapeup：视频过滤Mashup服务网站 (1)Gamevee:在线游戏视频分享网站 (1)Youlivesee：视频语音交互平台 (0) © watsonxu for 天涯海阁, 2008. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: chinese, language, learning, video, web2.0, yeehamandarin 更多Web2.0资讯：Web2.0 News | Web2.0 Gallery | Mobile2.0资讯 | 卖链接赚美元 Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

Millions of young Chinese are addicted to unhealthy online games, a committee of China’s National People’s Congress reported. “Unhealthy” games in Chinese government standard refers to those that feature violence, pornography, and unpatriotic games. Because of this, the Chinese government is calling for stricter monitoring of “unhealthy” Internet games, recommending that games should automatically log off once a set number of hours of continuous playing is reached. In 2006, Internet game developers were told to ...

We have been tracking ChineseSavvy for a while. It is always a nice site for learning Chinese online, but we felt it was a bit hard to properly pitch ChineseSavvy because it has so many things in one place, until recently it is nicely revamped. We email-interviewed and had a discussion with Emily Shen, founder of ChineseSavvy. Here is the story: ChineseSavvy and its founder, Emily Shen ChineseSavvy is founded by Emily Shen who majored ...

In China, you know something has become big when the government starts worrying about how to regulate it. (Come to think of it, that’s the way it is with most governments, not just China’s.) China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has asked the Finance Department of People’s University in Beijing to come up with draft plans to regulate micropayments in China. (People’s University is traditionally the training ground for government officials.) Right now, ...

The orchestra that played at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony has admitted miming its entire performance in a faking confession that dwarfs the Beijing lipsynching scandal.

ESWN translated an article by Li Punman at my1510 about an older generation peasant's view on the Beijing Olympics. Nationalism is still a pervasive frame.

I learned something new from one of my students the other day. She was wearing Crocs shoes, and I asked her what they called those shoes in Chinese. She replied that they were called 布希鞋 (bù xī xié) or Bu Shi Shoes.You see, ever since W. was caught wearing crocs, the Taiwanese decided to venerate him by naming the shoes after him. 布希 or "bu shi" just happens to be the closest Chinese pronunciation to ...

Chowhound's resident Chinese expert Jerome posted recently about Blue Cherry in Alhambra, which has the usual frozen yogurt but also makes Beijing-style yogurt in-house. The yogurt shop makes a refreshing stop after a savory, salty meal at King Hua or Pho 79. Frozen yogurt in plain, mango and blueberry is all-natural and quite nice and creamy, with the usual fruit toppings available. But even

[ts]Here we are, still way behind. So, please give a warm welcome to our guest blogger, CSC's brother, the B!The B is quite passionate about hong ba, waxing poetical when the topic arises. Here's how he makes hong ba. When he does, he doesn't waste anything and actually makes three (3) dishes!1 Hong Ba (Red-Braised Pork Hock)[the B]In a pot with some water, Ninang (godmother) boiled the pork leg with onions and a little salt. ...

Then we’ll grab a bite at 404 Not Found Slashdot: linuxwrangler writes “Preparing for English-speaking visitors, a restaurant in China recently ran its name through an online translator, took the result, then purchased and mounted a large sign displaying the English version of their name: Translate Server Error.” This one has been around for a couple of weeks but it’s destined to become a classic.

按：本文使用的RegexBuddy为3.1.0（完全）版，并非最新版3.1.1（截至2008.08.23）。需要该版本的请在这篇文章后留言。 注：参考www.regular-expressions.info的风格，更新了本模板的style.css文件，加入了与正则式代码相关的格式： 正则式格式举例：[a-z]+@[a-z]+?\.[a-z]+ 匹配格式举例：pig@animal... 普通文本格式举例：这是一些普通文本。hello regex world. pig@animals.com和c... 可以这样使用：在字符串这是一些普通文本。hello regex world. pig@animals.com和chicken@birds.com使用正则式[a-z]+@[a-z]+?\.[a-z]+加以匹配，得到的结果为：pig@animals.com和chicken@birds.com。 极端粗放型：点号其实是近乎万能的，可以匹配任何字符，限制只在于换行符的匹配上。匹配中文自然不在话下。作为可有可无的背景符，一个.*就能匹配掉包括中文在内的全部字符。这当然是一种极端的情况，因为这样显示不出中文字符串的特性。这不是本文要探讨的。 极端集约型：如果搜索特定文本，例如在一二三四五六七八九十拾佰百千仟万亿中匹配十拾， 直接使用m/十拾/就能搞定。这同样不是本文要探讨的。与\w能匹配英文字母一样，本文想找的是能够匹配所有汉字，而不匹配其它文本的一种简写方式。 普适型型：由于汉字属于Unicode，我们就从unicode里面找。在Unicode Regular Expressions，列出了unicode的许多种表达方式。搜索chinese，找到如下一行： Writing Systems Blocks … … Chinese CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, Small Form Variants, Bopomofo, Bopomofo Extended 关于CJK的含义，是指中日韩统一表意文字（Chinese Japanese Korean Unified Ideographs），可以参考百度释义，或wiki词条。 再查了一下regular expressions,查到其unicode一节有这样的内容： \p{InCJK_Unified_Ideographs}: U+4E00..U+9FFF 看到这里，我想起了以前写的《匹配用户名的asp正则表达式(包括中文)》一文中，提到的中文匹配为[\u4e00-\u9fa5]，原来是有其对应的速记方式的，虽然两者有最后一组字符的差异。看附图可见U+9fa5，最后一个汉字的模样。 此序列的第一位，U+4e00，是汉字一。 自定义：到目前为止，相当于给汉字找到了官方的身份和说法，使用\p{InCJK_Unified_Ideographs}就能匹配所有的中文字符。我们其实也可以将一些重复出现的东西，封装起来，以备使用。例如，对于阿拉伯数字，我们有\d可以用。对于中文数字一二三四等等，我们有没有办法呢？ ?View Code PERL$zh_digit=qr/一|二|三|四|五|六|七|八|九|十|零|〇|百|千|万|亿|佰|仟|壹|贰|叁|肆|伍|陆|柒|捌|玖|拾/; $str="人民币五十一万零三百元整。大写：伍拾壹万零三佰元整。"; while($str =~ s/((?:$zh_digit)+)//) { print $1."\n"; } 其输出结果见附图。 结论 可以使用\p{InCJK_Unified_Ideographs}匹配任意中文字符。在不支持该种标记方式时，也可以使用[\u4e00-\u9fa5]加以匹配。 ...

Photos taken from the celebration of the Chinese Lantern Festival although we are not sure where this took place. Pretty cool massive lanterns. Anyone knows where this was held?

The top 10 languages spoken in the world Click here to see the full Map of Languages 10. French — Number of speakers: 129 million Often called the most romantic language in the world, French is spoken in tons of countries, including Belgium, Canada, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Haiti. Oh, and France too. We’re actually very lucky that French is so popular, because without it, we might have been stuck with Dutch Toast, Dutch Fries, and ...