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Mind-blowing Demo of the Wii Remote Hack
Written by Jean   
Monday, 14 April 2008

Human-Computer Interaction researcher Johnny Lee demos his hack of the Nintendo Wii remote, to set up a system possibly costing thousands of dollars with just a $40 Wii Remote. Simply amazing.

If the video doesn't load, visit the URL directly: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/243  





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Nightmare at Hangzhou Airport
Written by Jean   
Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Winter storm never affected the lovely tourist city of Hangzhou until just right before Chinese New Year travel. What luck! Here is a painful recount of my nightmare on February 3rd, 2008 at my now most hated Hangzhou Airport. 





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How to access Flickr in China?
Written by Jean   
Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Accessing Flickr from China (flickr.com logo)

 First off, many of you may or may not know. The #1 best photograph sharing website in the world is blocked in China. There are some speculations as to why it was blocked, one was that someone posted photos of a protest that was being physically suppressed in China, on Flickr and caused Flickr to be subsequently blocked.

 Whatever the reason may be, I am a heavy user of Flickr and to this date there still is no better online photosharing system out there better than Flickr (Picasa Gallery comes close, but still nope).

 So, here are simple step-by-step instructions on how to access Flickr.

1. Make sure you are using the Firefox browser . (Download and Install)

2.  Go to the Firefox Access Flickr Addon page and install the Addon

3. Voila! You can now access Flickr as if it was never blocked. 

Enjoy your photo surfing! 





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Getting your Certificate - Important Tips
Written by Jean   
Sunday, 06 January 2008

Important Tips to ensure you will receive your Certificate after completing your studies.

For some students who are finishing up their Fall semester and new students about to enter for Spring semester, here are a few tips on increasing the chances of you getting your certificate from the Tsinghua Chinese Language Program. These tips come from personal experience. I was supposed to have received my certificate by July/August of 2007 and I am writitng this today in January 2008.

Read on for the tips...





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Where are we? What are we up to? What's gonna happen to RP?
Written by Jean   
Tuesday, 04 September 2007

Hangzhou West Lake EveningHi everyone! This is Jean dropping in after a long absence from the main part of the site. You'll still find me posting in the forums and answering email from people who somehow sneak in and get my email address. But for the most part, I've been absent from the front portion of the site.

 Well, in short I've never been busier and literally had no time to even visit RP on a daily basis for a few weeks in a row. But things are settling down again... slowly. I'm still pretty busy, but things are finally falling into place slowly. For now, I'm no longer in Beijing, though I intend to go back to Beijing this weekend or next weekend. Just for the weekend.

 Which means... I'm back in China. After continent hopping from Mainland China to Taiwan to the U.S. to Hong Kong and back to Mainland China, I'm done with the migratory period for now. I'm currently in Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, the lovely tourist city that is unbearably hot in the summer. Well, not as unbearable as Las Vegas, but this place is a walking sauna all day and all night unless it's raining. :)

So, what are we up to in Hangzhou? Well, we're not in school anymore, that's about all I can say.

 And what's going to happen to RipplePath? Well, RipplePath is going to come back to life very soon. It's alive enough to recieve your inquiries, but after I get settled, I plan to breathe fresh life into RipplePath and broaden a bit it's resources to include Hangzhou. The city that I am living in now. And how am I going to achieve that? Hmm, I'll have to sit back down at the drawing board and figure out how to architect and re-design it so that it'll all make better sense and be more usable.

 So for now, just sit back, use RP as you always have and know that it's going to recieve a bit of a new spin in the coming weeks... month... hopefully not months. :)

 As for Beijing, I still have many friends left and hopefully some of you Beijinger's will continue to contribute your findings, reviews, experiences, questions and etc to RP. Otherwise, what RP already has is decently useful and I can update on my occassional trips back to the BJ. :)

 And now if you come to Hangzhou, you'll have an excellent source to look up too, whether to live like me, or to vacation here. :)

 So thanks for stopping by! Take care! Put on some sunblock!

 and... ciao!

~Jean~ 





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