Browsing archives for August, 2008

Beijing Trip

18 August 2008 | 0 Comments

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This post has taken a while to get out the door, but it probably isn’t completely a bad thing because now I can reflect on my trip to Beijing without gushing too much.

As an undergrad I studied some Chinese economic history and I’ve wanted to visit mainland China ever since. I’ve been to Hong Kong on business a bunch of times and have always loved that, but never been to China proper before now.

The timing was pretty good too, we managed to get a great deal on Air New Zealand’s inaugural direct flight into Beijing which was kinda cool with the CEO, Rob Fyfe, and NZ’s Minister of Tourism, Damien O’Connor, onboard to celebrate the opening the of the new route. We even had a Maori welcome party at the Beijing end…

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Testing iPhone WordPress App

1 August 2008 | 0 Comments

Been a bit frustrated with some bugginess in the iPhone app store, particularly when downloading apps directly over the air. Still, nothing that a soft restore didn’t fix.

Posting this from the Worspress app which seems pretty sweet..might even me inclined to blog more if I can easily embed pix too.

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