Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

I’ve spent the last week or so in Suzhou without access to an internet connection, and I haven’t missed it in the least. Because of this, however, I’ve been slow to post even the briefest of updates on my current trip to China. I’m also having a hard time posting photos to Flickr because of […]

Taking a short break from the China posting, I’d like to direct everyone’s attention to 025.431: The Dewey blog where, prompted by an email from the child wizard himself, they’re discussing where to list quidditch in the Dewey schedules.
Edit: And just for fun, here’s a photo a snapped at the Beijing Foreign Language Bookstore when […]

It’s 4:49 PM in Beijing (3:49 A.M. Central Standard Time) and I’m feeling the full effects of jet lag. However I’ve arrived safely and have set up quarters at Radvision’s Beijing R&D Center — what used to be VisionNex — until we take off for dinner. More about the flight when my head stops spinning.

If you’re one of those people who notice these kinds of things, you’ll see that I’ve switched my site over from Blogger to Wordpress. The only reason I mention it is that things may be a little broken for a while — the occasional bad link or broken image. Also, you’ll notice that all […]

These are the things I bring with me to China:

$245 worth of vaccines (Hepatitis A, meningitis, typhoid, polio) and prescriptions (Lomotil, Cipro, cloroquinine) — I do this for you, Mom and Dad. Also, a bottle of melatonin to help me sleep on the plane and some Claritin to deal with the dusty Beijing air.
Three “Spawn” […]

I don’t know what possessed me to start overhauling my site using a new content management system, but I started playing around with Wordpress today and have been impressed enough to spend a good deal of time adapting it to my existing blog template. I’ve only finished the main blog page, but feel free to […]

Chinatown, Chicago, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.

I know it’s probably a visual cliche, but I really like this photo of Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood with the Sears Tower hulking in the background.

Well, it looks like I’m getting closer with the formatting of this page, though I still have to figure out how to get all that stuff over there lined up —->
Getting closer though.

Wordpress lived up to its billing and the installation was super easy. I still need to figure out how to publish to two different blogs from the same installation, and how to publish to a directory other than the Wordpress install directory, but the part I was scared about is done. Of course, it’s folly […]