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David Feng Announcement

Big Shakeups in the Progress

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There are massive shakeups afoot for my blogs and Mac sites. By the end of October 2007, all David Feng blogs (except for the Beijingology Notebook) will be getting a fresh new look that’s going to be streamlined across all sites. (David Feng’s Mac Blog will get the new lick-it-it’s-that-good livery in November 2007.) All links will be unified, so that you can hop from one of my sites to the other one. The big gate to all of my blogs, of course, will remain Raccolta Online.

By the end of October 2007, too, we’ll see the completion of the massive BeiMac websites redesign. This one is going in pretty deep — all BeiMac Union sites except for MacInChina, macinwiki and pingmin.org are affected.

Nothing as shaky in my other efforts, though, although new standards for hutongs are on the drawing board and have already been finalized for restaurants, bars, cafes and teahouses. (Hotels are still a sort of half-done deal, with the infobox ready but the article standards still “up there somewhere in the air”.)

And, of course, I’ll still be one big, active blogger over there at blognation China. Not even taking Sunday off…

Travel, United States

No sleep, no surprise

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I think I’m the worst enemy of planes in terms of sleeping mileage. To me, slumberettes are nothing but things they charge an extra thousand bucks, since to me I get no mileage out of them.

I seem to be the natural enemy of sleep. I spend nights up till 3 AM tearing down freeways in SimCity and replacing them with monorails. I actually do live rebroadcasts and translations of Keynotes (Stevenotes), keeping me up until 5 AM.

This extremely David Feng practice of fly-and-don’t-sleep kind of shocked the flight attendants, who weren’t used to the concept of sleepless first-class passengers. That’s because what powers David Feng isn’t an ordinary PC — it’s a first-of-the-class Mac. David Feng doesn’t sleep on planes.

He gets productive. :-)

Now: TEA ATTACK! Can’t sleep for at least 11 hours… ;-)

PS: After a quick chat with the stewardess, turns out I found out the reason for my anti-sleep attitude: I hated midday naps since… what, 1986. It’s 20 years without the dreaded midday nap and counting!