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Back from the dead?

Monday, January 1, 2007 12:48:21 AM

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It's been just over two years since I started up a translation blog on BlogChina, and more than a year and a half since I abandoned it in frustration over system upgrades that rendered it unusable in both Opera and Mozilla. A LiveJournal page devoted to Chinese science fiction that started a bit earlier and updated more regularly met the same fate. This blog is the successor to those earlier efforts. Posts will be copied over in time (the incomplete Journey to the West and New China: A Future History have already made the move), and new ones will begin to appear sometime in early 2007. The proximate cause for all of this is one of those blog memes everyone complains about but everyone follows anyway. The purpose of this "5 things you didn't know about me", as I understand it, is to surprise readers with things they might not have imagined you doing. I've been pretty stingy with personal information on the blogs I've abandoned - I've never been a "me me me" sort of blogger - and my current haunts aren't conducive to much personal expression, either. But Brendan tagged me, and it'd be impolite not to do something, at least, though it's more than a bit pathetic to start a new blog just to have that sense of participation...
  1. In grade school, I had acceptably neat penmanship. At one point I was fascinated with trying to write in as small a hand as possible; after that phase passed, my handwriting went down the tubes.
  2. During my middle school years, I'd read the business section of the paper first, freaking out my parents, who have a strong anti-corporate streak.
  3. After three years of protracted boredom playing in the band at graduation ceremonies, I arranged a more interesting version (for the trumpet section, at least) of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance that played at my high-school graduation. I had no understanding of composition theory; the arrangement wasn't good at all.
  4. In 1996, I was one of the forward-thinking purchasers of a BeBox.
  5. I prefer fountain pens to ballpoints, but cheap steel-nibbed pens to the classy kind.
Since this new blog has no regular readers, there's no use in me tagging anyone. The meme halts here; backtrack and follow another branch on the tree. Though I'm sort of curious to see if he'd really go through with it.

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