Archive for November, 2006

article on US intervention in venezuela

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Hey all…another quick link to an article: Eva Golinger’s New Book - Bush vs. Chavez. An interesting list of things that the US has tried in order to get rid of Chavez and preserve their control of Venezuela’s oil, along with some predictions about what might happen following the Venezuela federal elections in [...]

chinese labour law

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

i just thought i’d drop a link here: Chinese Labor Law Reform: Guaranteeing Worker Rights in the Age of Globalism. A nice article on the labour law situation in china, and some attempts at minor reform. One interesting thing in it was that some employers refuse to give a paper contract to [...]

changing direction at school

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

I’ve been thinking more about doing more linguistics and leaving the math stuff for a while. Just tonight i was searching for chinese language programs in china, when i stumbled upon some stuff at UVic. It turns out that uvic has a whole ton of chinese courses and a chinese linguistics department…quite a [...]

school doubts

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

A little lacking on the posting lately, but i’m keeping busy. I’m still intensely interested in my chinese course, but less so in the math courses. I’ve been skipping quite a lot since i got bored. At the start of the math courses, they seemed too easy and overlapping in content, so [...]

rapist checklist on BitingBeaver

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Hey all. I was just reading some articles over at Biting Beaver, and i saw that BB had reposted her old “Rapist Checklist” article (which is an excellent read). Of course, she got a ton of negative responses to the article, and decided to share some of the flames with us along with [...]