January 7, 2008

• Weekend Mix

  The weekend was pretty good. One highlight was on Saturday, I
  met up with some folks from Rice Bowl Journals who
  are in the DC area (manny & enygma, and one of e's friends--though not pictured). We went by
  Ching Ching Cha, a
  Chinese Tea House in Georgetown.

  

  We had a pretty good time. It's always great to meet folks in
  person whom you've known online. By now, I don't really have any
  preconceived expectations of how folks are in person. So, it ends up
  being something like a mix of meeting someone for the first time, and
  catching up with someone you already know.

  Anyway, anyone in the Georgetown area, you might want to try
  Ching Ching Cha sometime. I first found out about it from my Chinese
  teacher last year--last February, she had a class there as well. It's
  probably the best teahouse you'll find in the area, though it's
  specialty is more in East Asian teas (so, green, oolong, tisanes, and
  some Chinese black teas).

  Site Renewal

  Other than that, I spent some time fixing up this site again.
  You'll notice it looks a bit different: I moved the posting calendar
  and search-box to the top-right, cleaned up how the links look, and
  added a "top posts" thing (unfortunately, due to my laziness with
  posting last year, only one of those last year is good enough to put up
  there). I also tried to fix it up so it'll show up in both Firefox and
  Internet Explorer properly--you really should be using Firefox
  regardless, though:

  

  Let me know if you have any problems with it. I spent a lot of
  time trying to get it looking right (it's much harder than you might
  think, since I prefer to program everything in straight HTML/CSS--no
  modules or automatic Xanga stuff), and so I'd like it to be as good as
  I can possibly make it.

  Speaking of Internet Explorer...

  ...part of last week was also spent helping my sister clear
  out a nasty virus/spyware/trojan combo she got on her computer.
  Specifically, it was AntiSpy
  Storm. The first part of this conversation was spent trying
  to figure out how she got the virus:

  Me: Well, what browser are you using? S: Internet Explorer Me: ...well there's your problem

  It's all taken care of now, though, and thankfully so. If you check the
  description of AntiSpy Storm, it's pretty vicious. Good thing that's over with.

  Anyway, I'll have more to talk on by the end of this week. 'Til then. ...and it seems I'm still keeping in line with my resolutions--that sleeping one is proving to be more difficult, though, and may take a little while. KF

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