Occasional Tales

But I'm sure it's in the public interest. While Spaces is playing silly buggers, I may as well post an entry or two here. I was just doing a search via Baidu for Zhang Zeduan's picture 清明上河, but as is typical with any search via any search engine, you often get some odd results, one of which was a picture of a hot girl lying on a bed. I clicked on the link and found myself on this page on xinhua.net, which seems to be informing us that the cutie in question has had a little surgery recently. I can't read enough of the Chinese to understand what it says, but I'd say from the pictures that 陈瑀涵 ( Chén Yǔhán ; I guess that's her name) didn't really need any enhancement in the first place and is now sporting a somewhat unattractive cleavage. How this picture ends up being returned as a search result for Zhang Zeduan, I don't know.

I forgot to mention that... Green Bamboo (Spaces edition) is back. On Friday afternoon, I was messing around with Messenger and happened to click on the menu option for posting to my blog. There, to my surprise, was the editing screen. I thought it might be like blogspot – you can post it, but you can't view it afterwards, but that wasn't the case. I could post and view. I have no idea when access was restored or why it was lost in the first place. I didn't think Nanny was inclined to rescind blocks on individual blogs. "Why was Green Bamboo blocked in the first place?" My suspicion was that it was because I'd said that if China wanted other countries to be a little more trusting, then it should be quiet about Taiwan and Japan. "That was dangerous. Is the post still there?" As far as I'm aware. There was about two days between posting and Green Bamboo being blocked. "And when was it unblocked?" Exactly when, I don't know. "Any...