Blogging in China Article

This was somewhat interesting -
BusinessWeek Online
A Watchful Eye on China's Blogosphere
Wednesday August 24, 8:26 am ET
By Bruce Einhorn

Be thankful for our freedom to type what we want without politically incorrect "keywords" where,
"when you type in those keywords, you cannot post them. It just shows up as stars."

Exerpt Q&A:
Q: What's your user base like?
A: Sixty percent of our users are female.

Q: Isn't that surprising, since China's Internet has long been so male-dominated?
A: Boys and men don't have time to write very much. Girls are more emotional, more articulate about their feelings. Besides, a lot of boys are busy playing online games.

Tracy Chapman - Change

Just heard this for the 1st time on the radio and enjoyed it.
It is from her latest album, Where You Live.
Release Date: September 13, 2005

Track Listings
1.Change 2.Talk To You 3.3,000 Miles 4.Going Back
5.Don't Dwell 6.Never Yours 7.America 8.Love's Proof
9.Before Easter 10.Taken 11.Be And Be Not Afraid

Change
If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and Love,
Would you change? Would you change?

If you knew that love can break your heart,
If you're down so low you cannot fall,
Would you change? Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses, how much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around, makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget, makes you change?

If you knew that you would be alone,
Knowing right and being wrong,
Would you change? Would you change?

If you knew that you had found a truth,
That brings up pain that can't be soothed,
Would you change? Would you change?

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses, how much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around, makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget, makes you change?

Are you so upright you can't be bent?
If it comes to blows are you sure you won't be crawling?
If it's not for the good, why risk falling?
If everything you think you know,
Makes your life unbearable,
Would you change? Would you change?

If you've broken every rule and vow
And hard times come to bring you down,
Would you change? Would you change?

If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and Love,
Would you change? Would you change?

http://www.about-tracy-chapman.net/where_you_live_lyrics.htm

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75Max

Gas is costing too much and I'm doing lots of driving, so I thought I'd try an experiment and not drive over 75 mph at all and use the cruise control. Most recent gas mileage has gone from a consistent 29 - 30 mpg when I'd run it up to 80 - 85 in sprints to 31 - 32 mpg using the experimental rule. I'm ranging ~450 miles on 14.0 to 14.5 gallons. I'd try 70Max, but I don't want to get run off the road.

Good timing too - NY introduced a new end of summer program called Summer Brake . There were a ton of police cars out there this weekend. No problem for me just tooling along at 73 - 74mph in the middle lane. Tonight when I went to CT to Rein's Deli to pickup Melissa there were many stops in both directions both coming and going.