I?m looking for some additional inspiration for China trip. So far the most inspiring is Gary?s story:

http://www.orientaloutpost.com/about.php

Nowadays Gary spends his life travelling China, finding out local artists and distributing their works to all the world by Internet. Before this, he came to China from the States to teach English as a ?break from America? experience. He seems rather happy with his current life, even if it’s not for the money:

It is a labor of love. I once did some math, and realized that for the time I spend, I am making the same as minimum wage in America. But in China, that puts me in “Upper Middle Class”.

That, and I am one of the few people that can say that I truly love my job!

I really love the personal context that his site gives to each of the things presented. That’s the right way to do this business imho.

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Doing what they like to do, most of the time, doing what they want, rest of the time. My age, more or less, perfect education and well travelled and full of ideas. They are the next generation and I hope they will start to redefine Poland soon, stealing the spotlight from first beneficiaries of the communist collapse.

Create instead of buy cheap (from the state) and resell. Lukasiewicz and not Kulczyk. Not afraid to think globally.

Inspired by Agata, my designer, now in Uzbekistan, our evening walk in Biskupin, a magic place, in Wroclaw.

We are just beginning.

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Yesterday the most awaited Excel arrived, at last, and there was a moment of silence as everyone in the open space started opening it and then burst of comments. Almost everyone that I know and that was eligible made it, so there was much rejoicing. There was only one exception known to me, and an unfortunate one.

So now I am a consultant on a position of Consultant… never really thought it would get this far, when I first came here. Most significant for me: some particular people who positively contributed to the process, rather than its final outcome.

Nevertheless, I’m under a ton of things now and still need to recover from it – but I have a ticket to Hong Kong as well as apartment’s design that I like, and this is a lot already.

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I need to use Supermemo for all the Chinese stuff, pinyin, radicals and characters, otherwise it would kill me soon. I had Supermemo 8 and it did fine for the last 10 years or so, but Chinese was too much for it. SM8 can handle just plain text Ascii components. Even Russian was a problem already for all its cyrillic fonts, leave aside Chinese writing.

I thought the newer version will do and I visited Empik and asked them to find me a Supermemo-powered language course. What kind of course? Any course will do. I knew they sell such courses and you can just throw away the course and keep Supermemo, and it will work as a standard stand-alone version. It took them 15 minutes to find it, German mini-conversations, on the bottom shelf. Supermemo seemed like some secret code, hidden away from the public.

German conversations went to the trashcan immediately and I ended up with “Multimedia Supermemo”. Even though name sounded nice, soon I found out that in fact it was not the best version. Not even much better than my previous one, and buggy too. You can compare different versions of Supermemo for yourself here.

In the end, I could type Chinese characters in the RTF component all right, but it seemed that only one such component got stored, no matter how many items I created. Multimedia Supermemo was a waste of money as a result, but not much of it, 20 PLN.

However, at least I knew then that Supermemo 2004 was the best of all Supermemos around and after short hesitation I bought it online here. 39$.

It requires a password to unlock it and register, and I do hope to obtain the password tomorrow, but in the meantime the application will work for some time even without it. It installed quickly, and I launched it. (read more…)

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Another precious three hours and I managed to get WP2.0 working without errors, visible errors, at least. I repaired SPGM rewriting rules using trial and error approach, but it is now such a mess that I don’t even want to look at it.

As for added value, I started to use Akismet anti-spam plugin. I’m curious to see how it performs.

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