February 2006


I just finished my second Chinese language site, also a copy of an original English language site I developed.

Someone translated all of the content and my reading comprehension of Chinese is good enough to know where to put what, so that part wasn’t much of a problem. In fact, it was mostly a straightforward process. I created a new directory and installed a backup of the English language site and then just cut and pasted the Chinese language content to replace everything.

The hassles were in messing with the to make the top menu link show up in white instead of green and then a bear of an issue with IE. Everything looked great in Firefox but IE didn’t know how to read my site, even though I told it the character set was simplified Chinese. I finally managed to hack to code and took out the php parts and replaced it with html code in a few places and now it works. It was a real pain though.

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Well, Chinese Year ended with a bang. Lot’s of them actually. The fireworks are fun to begin with but they get old after a while. There was a huge finale where everyone launched all they had left. Nice, but old hat by now. Maybe only one day is better.

Actually, it isn’t the pretty ones that get old. It’s the traditional firecrackers that they light off in long strings. As last night was the full moon, I heard that you could see the spirits flying around in there air, so they were particularly vigilant in their attempts to scare them off. Til next year!

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