Month: February 2014

Chinese New Year 2014

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Chinese New Year this year fell on January 31 with the event of the New Moon. As always, it lasts for 15 days culminating in the Lantern Festival on February 14th. This year it was a ‘double holiday’ as it was also the Western Valentine’s Day – a holiday that is becoming increasingly more popular, especially with the younger generation. This is the year of the horse. It is to be a year of adventure and good fortune for China. You can read more about the Horse Zodiac symbol here on Wikipedia We bought some candy at the local Century Continue Reading →

Miscellaneous Musings

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Over the past month I’ve been playing around with various tech, so I thought I’d share what I have learned (aside form NEVER try to install Windows 7 on a USB drive) Team Viewer Microsoft Windows 7 has what appears to be a nifty built-in utility for remote access and assistance into remote PCs. Its called Microsoft Remote Assistance. However, typically for M$, it don’t work and there ain’t much on microsoft.com about it as they have removed it. I struggled with it for a couple of days using its “Easy Connect” option (which wasn’t…easy). I never got it to work Continue Reading →

How (not) to build a new PC

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It was a dark and stormy night… naa It was the best of times…. ack A long time ago in a…. ugh Way back when, in a land far away… (to many of you), we arrived in Shanghai. One of the first things I set out to do was build my mother-in-law a new PC. Her old system was from before the turn of the century and actually wouldn’t run anymore. So I set out on a goal to make it as small as possible and my wife set the goal of making it as cheaply as possible. Still struggling Continue Reading →