Adjusting

We’ve been in China for about two weeks now and we’ve started to adjust to new timezone, food and weather. I’ve also had to adjust to not having regular access to the internet. This is more a matter of us switching hotels and the fallout of the earthquake last year than it is an indictment of the internet in China. Apparently it’ll be another fifteen days before connectivity is back to what it was before the undersea cables were damaged.

Gnus has become a good friend of mine now. With gmail access spotty, I’ve relied on good old POP3 access more and more. My only trouble is learning the key shortcuts. I’m starting to get the basic ones down but I still have to regularly refer to the manual. I thought about going back to mutt, but I like having access to my mail, rss feeds and news feeds all in one client. I tend to get between 100-150 emails a day that I have to go through, so a reasonably fast client is a must.

And for those wondering, I’m finally going to start putting up some articles about both the startup and my investigations into open source in China. Stay tuned.