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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.

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I've been very occasionally looking at the Newbie lessons on ChinesePod for the past couple of months, since A White Bear recommended the site. They seem like good lessons and easy to follow. And with Sylvia's Chinese school in recess for the summer, I thought it would be a good chance for us to practice together. So I jumped in today and bought the subscription -- hopefully I will be able to keep up with the lessons. And hopefully, Sylvia will keep being interested in practicing language with me -- we've had some fun with it over the past couple of days.

When I initially checked it out, ChinesePod was not working with Firefox, so I had been using clunky Explorer to load the lessons; but as of right now I can use Firefox, which is way faster and less error-prone.

(Note: for looking up Chinese words, I have found Pristine Lexicon most useful.)

posted evening of Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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