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TANSO presents: SOUNDEYE - New Directions in Chinese Music

2008-04-14T23:53:00.002-04:00

Tanso Presents: SOUNDEYE - New Directions in Chinese Music

A Free 3 day screening event of Documentaries, Films, Music Videos, Live Performance and Talk about the vibrant new Chinese Music Scene.

LOOK, LISTEN and EXPLORE!

TANSO (which is Mandarin for discover), a new organization set up to spotlight new & modern music from China is proud to present SOUNDEYE from April 25 - 27.

This three day screening event at U of T's Hart House will explore the vibrant new music scene in China. We will show rare, unseen & exciting footage from a diverse range of artists, covering a variety of musical genres: from Electronica, Experimental Noise, sound art, Punk, Post Wave to New Folk and Rock. Two feature length documentaries will provide a concise overview of the cutting edge musical movements in Hong Kong & Mainland China. We are also screening a variety of music videos, which should interest artists, die-hard music followers, casual music fans or simply those with an interest in anything Chinese.

SOUNDEYE will spotlight the coolest Indie labels from all over China, such as Shenzhen's WE PLAY (run by Zen Lu), Beijing's Shansui, Hong Kong's NoiseAsia (founded by the multi-faceted Dickson Dee), and the well known Beijing imprint Subjam (run by the prolific Yan Jun). These names are unfamiliar in the West, but they are the future of Chinese new music - an emerging movement of new and innovative artists.

TANSO wishes to highlight all aspects of the exciting new music scene from East Asia - including the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. SOUNDEYE is the first event in a series that will open Canadians' doors to a world of creativity that few have yet to discover. We are committed to bringing the best of China's various independent music scenes, artists working in new media & sound art.

TANSO is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to build a bridge between Canada and China by facilitating cultural exchange via music and art. Join us at our inaugural event as we welcome Spring with some aural & visual stimulation.

FREE ADMISSION
Time: April 25, 26, 27, 2008
Location: The Hart House, East Common Room, U of T Downtown Campus

For more information or press inquiry, go to www.TANSO.ca
Or contact us at Soundeye.Tanso@gmail.com

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Daily Schedule:

Apr 25, Fri. 8pm-1am, Opening Party
8:30-11, Feature Documentary -20 Years of Chinese New Music

April 26, Sat, 7pm-1am, The Experimental Sound
7:30-9, - Experimental/Noise
9:30-11, - Electronica

Apr 27, Sun, 1pm-1am, The New Era
1:30-3:30, - Experimental Music from Hong Kong and southern China
4:30-7, - The Best Music from China in all genres, SynthPop, New Folk, Skinhead, Punk, Emo, Post Wave, Rock and more
8:00, Feature Documentary - Chinese Sound Art in Poland

An on-site exhibit of innovative poster designs in the Chinese new music scene.

For more information or press inquiry, go to www.TANSO.ca
Or contact us at Soundeye.Tanso@gmail.com

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SOUNDEYE - New Directions in Chinese Music
A 3 day screening event of Documentaries, Films, Music Videos, Live Performance and Talk about the vibrant new Chinese Music Scene.
April 25, 26, 27 @ The Hart House, U of T downtown Campus
For more info and complete screening schedule, visit www.TANSO.ca

Every year I received a birthday coupon from The edge music listener club

2007-07-03T00:06:00.000-04:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Yan -

Sorry I didn't get you a card, I'm really cheap.

BUT. I did get you something. It's below...it's a free entree at Jack Astor's. Now you only have two weeks to use the coupon.

Just print this whole e-mail, bring it with you, and be sure to have some picture I.D. handy. Here's your coupon code:

627529 15458 4790478 5

What I'm really trying to say is... Just have a great birthday and stuff.

later,

js

A summer of uncertainty

2007-06-17T22:05:00.000-04:00

A summer filled with changes; Where does it take us to; Stability doesn't belong to this season; We are the kind cannot bear the lightness of being; Surprise me!

Pekin Express

2007-05-02T10:09:00.000-04:00

Random road trip

2007-04-16T10:30:00.000-04:00

Easter long weekend

Chris, Tony and Yan

Go east

Click HERE for more photos.

JOIN ME or SPONSOR ME!

2007-04-10T21:40:00.000-04:00

My friend Phoutty and I are going to climb the CN Tower on April 28, 2007.

"Global Warming, also called climate change is the single biggest environmental threat facing our world today! In order to help WWF-Canada fight global warming on behalf of people like you and me, I've decided to climb the 1,776 steps of the CN Tower. While I will do the climbing, I need you to help me raise needed funds."

JOIN me or SPONSOR me and BEAT the global warming

Mar 15th, 2007

2007-03-15T12:16:00.000-04:00

"Good-bye" is not an ending
when you know that people care,
For miles may come between you,
but warm thoughts are always there...

"Good-bye" is not an ending
but a different start for you,
A time for making brand-new friends
and seeing dreams come true...

"Good-bye" is not an ending,
for you'll find along life's way
Within your heart you'll always have
a part of yesterday.

When can this come to Canada?

2007-03-15T09:08:00.000-04:00

The New York Times: One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones

Here are some of the highlight features which I'd like to have on my phone:

"CUSTOMIZE GREETINGS - Control freaks, rejoice. You can actually record a different voice mail greeting for each person in your address book: “Hi, sugarcheeks” for your sweetheart; “Can’t take your call right now, I’m out looking for a better job” for your mother.
Finally, you can tell GrandCentral to answer certain people’s calls with the classic three-tone “The number you have dialed is no longer in service” message. Telestalkers, bill collectors and ex-lovers come to mind. Never has technology been so deliciously evil." SWEET!

"SWITCH LINES - Anytime during a call, you can press the * key to make all of your phones ring again, so that you can pick up on a different phone in midconversation, unbeknownst to the person on the other end. For example, if you’re heading out the door, you can switch a landline call to your cellphone — or as you arrive home, a cell call to a landline, in order to save airtime minutes. "

"QUICK CHANGES - With a quick click at GrandCentral.com, you can direct all calls to voice mail when you don’t want to be disturbed; direct all calls to a new, temporary number (like a hotel); or prevent your home line from ringing during work hours."

"WEB BUTTONS - You can install a “call me” button on your Web site — a great, free way to field calls from your eBay, MySpace or dating-service Web page without actually posting your phone number."

"RINGBACK MUSIC - This bizarre little feature is evidently popular with young cellphone users in Europe, but is still rare in the United States. It lets you replace the ringing sounds the caller hears while waiting for you to answer (what Lily Tomlin would describe as “one ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingys”) with music—in GrandCentral’s case, any MP3 file of your choice. "
I am not sure about this feature. In China, almost everyone who has a cellphone is using this feature on their phone. And I found it quite annoying.

Anyway, my point is when I can get to play with all these on my phone in Canada?!

An angry me holding a boring phone

China Businesscast: Tom Doctoroff of JWT

2007-03-13T12:57:00.000-04:00

Danwei:
Tom Doctoroff is CEO of JWT Greater China and author of the book Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer. In this interview Doctoroff talks about the "Confucian conflict" that affects how modern Chinese spend their money. Doctoroff argues that while Chinese are driven by their egos, they do not display genuine individualism in the way Westerners do.
Doctoroff summarizes his point of view like this: My overall point is that culture is relative and we Westerners have to open our eyes to differing fundamental motivations. Cultures do evolve. The process however is slow and the evolutionary path is always consistent with deeply held beliefs (i.e., cultural "imperatives"). There are human truths and cultural truths. Both need to be approached with an open mind.

Listen

Let's keep blowing soap bubbles, to reach the sky

2007-03-09T23:57:00.000-05:00

I found the lost song
In my heart
Though someday
We'll all disappear
Our feeling accumulate
Like white powered snow
It was a tiny revolution
You touched my shoulder
I held you and loved you
That was everything
Even borders seem to dissolve
As the snow flowers blossom
A soap bubble flew by
It burst and disappeared
But let's keep blowing soap bubbles
To reach the sky
Leaping over a thousand nights
We breathe together
Now the world is endless
And the future is bright

- Bright Future

go to the cities of origin and document holidays global wise

2007-03-08T08:46:00.000-05:00

"go to the cities of origin and document major local holidays global wise"

This is the idea came to my mind while I was driving and listening to radio talking about St. Patrick's Day this morning. It will be a at least one year long project not including the time for initial research and preparation for the travel. The final delivery of this project can either be a documentary or a book or both. With the rapid development of technology and extending definition of media, very likely it will be displayed through some so far unknown medium.

What you read above can be merely a morning dream talk, fictional, or it can also be a draft of an actual proposal for a future project. The thin line sitting between them is vague. Nobody is able to foretell the future. Yet we went to the moon in 1969 and today, in 2007, I am still sitting in this dusty and crap corner on the earth. Yes, future is unpredictable. However.

Dream brings you forward. One more dream, one more possibility.

Happy International Women's Day! In light of the morning show on the radio, Canada do celebrate it. I thought it was a chinese made up holiday and so called International. Gladly, I was wrong. Happy holiday, ladies. In 21st Century, the definition of lady is broad.

蓝莲花

2007-03-05T11:52:00.000-05:00

没有什么能够阻挡
你对自由的向往
天马行空的生涯
你的心了无牵挂
穿过幽暗的岁月
也曾感到彷徨
当你低头的瞬间
才发现脚下的路
心中那自由的世界
如此的青春高原
盛开着永不凋零，蓝莲花

穿过幽暗的岁月
也曾感到彷徨
当你低头的瞬间
才发现脚下的路

心中那自由的世界
如此的青春高原
盛开着永不凋零，蓝莲花

growing in pains

2007-03-01T12:21:00.000-05:00

The past two weeks have been overwhelming to me, definitely not in a good way.
Every day I learn a hard lesson from reality. I don't know what this life is shaping me into. That's something which is out of my control.
Growing in pains. My heart is not old enough to be that strong. Never try to hold on someone, everyone lives as an individual in this society. Why I always have to be the left behind one. Just because I am in a situation which moving on is one of my options. This is simply not fair.
Carefree days are over. The weather forecast was right. A storm is coming.

an adorable tree

2007-02-25T22:17:00.001-05:00

0207 012
Originally uploaded by Chiudan.

How amazing it is! A Tree has eyes!

写在大年初一

2007-02-18T14:59:00.000-05:00

初一的下午,我蹲在阳台上,享受看似阳光明媚,蓝天白云,实质上的寒风刺骨,瑟瑟发抖，想象国内这会儿该是一番怎样的热闹的过年场面。
小年夜,我喝着啤酒,美美地忆了一番我的19岁.
大年夜,我终于洗了我的车,装修了yuri的home base studio,坐在小肥羊里看周董自导自演的黄金甲，大小，最后在阳台上玩了焰火。
大年初一，一觉睡到大中午，在一个奇怪的没有结局的梦里醒来。

终于我也过年了。

过年好！

Happy New Year

2007-02-16T09:32:00.001-05:00

DSC_0750 Originally uploaded by Chiudan.

Here comes the time of the year again. The 7th Chinese New Year with no family around, hopfully the last one. Otherwise I am afraid sooner or later this traditional holiday is going to be out of my life for good. Once the atmosphere is missing, all it left is merely a name, something called Chinese New Year and the substance is gone. The essence of celebrating a holiday is to share the joy. Share it with family, share it with friends, share it with everyone who you love.

Well, maybe I dont get to share the joy with those who I love face to face, there is internet, there is phone and also there is our hearts. Happy Chinese New year, the year of pig, everyone! Love you all!

At least I will keep one tradition with myself, hehe, wash my car before the new year comes!

新年快乐！恭喜发财！万事如意！

Love, Yan

me, snow storm, toronto

2007-02-14T18:57:00.001-05:00

tree Originally uploaded by Chiudan.

This set of pictures is to remind those of my friends who are no long in Canada of what winter is and what snow is. Enjoy!

snow day off.......

2007-02-14T09:35:00.000-05:00

valentine's day + snow storm = .... baby boom in Nov?

perplexity

2007-02-11T15:44:00.000-05:00

Sometimes you are stuck and not moving forward. This is probably where I am right now. It could be the laziness or the fear. The fear of choosing the future and the laziness of moving on from the present. The fusion of these perceptions creates perplexity.

This is a nonsensical yet delightful post, only for myself.

梦想照进现实-混乱的晃眼

2007-02-03T15:38:00.000-05:00

如题,梦想照进现实,混乱的晃眼.
这不是一部电影,舞台剧被记录在了胶片上,带着胶片特有的色彩,让舞台剧式典型的抽象台词分外飘忽.我很努力的在脑子里搜索更确切的词汇来形容我现在的感受,这让本来计划着的喷发式的表达变成了挤牙膏.
最近有些过渡的融入所谓的艺术世界,让我现在随便跟街上看到什么,都有种看名画,名摄影作品的感觉,都有种定格的冲动.
冬天特有的阴郁像是给我脑子里这进行中混乱添了把火,烧得如火如荼的.一个半小时不带歇的对白,除了中途两次人为的暂停厕所时间,真是把我弄得不知道自己这究竟是踩在了梦想里,还是陷在了现实里,总之就是困在了某一个空间,憋的荒.
每次在看国产电影前我都会特别慎重,就怕自己这一不慎在文化冲击和反文化冲击力里卡住.两星期前,在网上看王朔的访谈,心里那个什么青年的影子,一冲动,把访谈里凡是提及的电影电视剧一口气,全买了.昨天邮包到了,电视剧加电影,一共十部.说实话,手里端着这些盗版盘的时候,我这心里直发怵,这看完,我还能跟加拿大呆下去吗,还能一脸镇定的跟人鼓吹平静的生活能激发出多少人生理想和动力的言论吗,能保证自己不一冲动就买机票回国搬北京去吗?我这人爱跟自己过不去,所以决定试一把,挑战一下自己.
我爱看电影,也承认每回一看电影,我就会如戏特深,得花好久才能从戏里走出来.所以我只能在周末看电影,当然一看,我这一周末就被毁了.电影胶片特有的,浓重的,油画式的颜色,能把电影里所有的情绪放大,把观众密密实实笼在那情绪里.这时候就得看观众的定力了,定力足的人,看过一笑了之,定力不足的,就如我,就得在那笼子里苦苦挣扎半天,才能找到出口,慢慢地爬出来.这一正一反的冲击太痛苦.当然电影的质量是个关键,要是什么歪瓜烂枣都能这么折腾我的话,那我就真是感情过剩,简称花痴.
先看电影的拍摄花絮,完整的,都成单片发了.再看电影,一一去和花絮里的片断对上号.我明白我想干什么了,我想干导演.这儿导演的定义并不是单纯的电影导演或者电视导演,而是一个抽象的导演定义.导演是一个在脑子里勾画出梦想,然后借助一切专业人士的力量,把这个梦想填充成现实的人.当然首先这导演得是一个牛比的人,得让所有人信服他脑子里的梦想并不是一个空想,是一个现实,发生在未来的现实.然后导演选择合适的人选来共同构筑这个现实,虽然我们常说要齐心协力,共同努力,但这中间对不同力量的运用得当,哪笔重哪笔轻,还得靠导演协调.还有得保证在这搭筑的过程中不能跑题,所谓专业人士都是带着浓重的个人色彩的,所以导演得始终保持清醒,否则一走神,很可能画着画着就变成画别人的梦了.最后画画完了,成了现实摆在那儿的时候,还没完,建设者们都走了,导演不能走,既然称之为现实,就必须有人来参与进这个现实,生活在这个现实,否则这现实就只是一个摆设,所谓的理想境界,给人看的.至于对导演来说,什么时候才是个头,我还没想出来,很难对这个理解里的完结下定义.

在想自己写这个帖子算是什么,曲高和寡,太抬举自己了.其实就是心里明白,这是个没什么人看,没什么人会明白我在说什么的东西.当梦想照进现实,用这个来形容,呵呵,挺贴切.至于哪个是梦想,哪个是现实,个人理解了.

today's session

2007-01-31T09:42:00.000-05:00

Reverse culture shock - a phrase I saw from Nara's blog this morning.

Somehow her last blog in Korea hit me. A sense of sadness stuck in my chest. I can't explain why I am having such a strong feeling for someone else's departure from a far land. I am sitting in my cubicle and trying to have a self-analysis session to figure out the substance of this unusual behaviour. I am sure this sadness has nothing to do with her. It must be something from her blog invoked some hidden feeling in my heart and my mind sensed it. This self-analysis is a talk between the heart and the mind. These are the two individual entities in my body. They dont often communicate to each other in order to keep a functional and rational yan running without hesitation.

the heart: I am upset. Let's talk.
the mind: Why? Tell me.
the heart: I guess it was the leaving. Saying bye to a place which you know you might never go back, yet you have spent such long time there and had a life there. It strikes me.
the mind: Is it what you are afraid of?
the heart: I guess... Am I ever going to confront such a moment in my life?
the mind: I thought you always wanted an unpredictable future. In that way, yes, you might.
the heart: What if I choose never say this type of farewell to any place where I ever have a life in?
the mind: umm, then you will have to spend the rest of your life running back and force from this culture shock to that reverse culture shock.
the heart: I think that sounds fair to me. Ohh, I figured out. It's a twofold feeling which upsets me. One is that she was telling a moment of leaving, but in her words the sadness was absent. Second, I was trying to put myself in her situation and this imaginary myself leaving scene triggered my long time fear which I always avoid to face. A dilemma as want to be a cosmopolitan yet being afraid of saying bye to things. Phew... I feel much better now. Thanks!
the mind: My pleasure. I am glad you figured out. So, I guess bye for now. hehehe, bye!
the heart: hmm, ummm, byeee...

Since the heart said I was fine, I guess I am fine now. It's necessary to hold such session once a while. It keeps you healthy.

MySpace Moves to Give Parents More Information - The Wall Street Journal

2007-01-17T10:43:00.000-05:00

MySpace Moves to Give
Parents More Information
Web Site Popular With Kids
Offers to Monitor Names, Ages;
Will It Repel Biggest Users?
By JULIA ANGWIN
January 17, 2007; Page B1

In a bid to appease government critics, News Corp.'s popular Web site MySpace.com is planning to offer free parental notification software -- a move that risks alienating its young users.

Parents who install the monitoring software on their home computers would be able to find out what name, age and location their children are using to represent themselves on MySpace. The software doesn't enable parents to read their child's e-mail or see the child's profile page and children would be alerted that their information was being shared. The program would continue to send updates about changes in the child's name, age and location, even when the child logs on from other computers.

WHO'S WATCHING?

• The News: MySpace is developing parental notification software that would show parents how their child is representing him or herself on the site.

• The Background: Following dozens of reports of teens being molested by people they met through MySpace, a coalition of attorney generals from 33 states are pressuring MySpace to make its site safer for teens.

• What's at Stake: MySpace is the most popular social networking Web site in the world, but its ability to attract advertisers has been hampered by concerns about safety.

The software, code-named "Zephyr," represents MySpace's latest attempt to pacify critics who claim that the site is unsafe for teens. Dozens of teens have been molested and some even murdered by people who first contacted them through MySpace, according to law-enforcement officials.

The stakes are high for News Corp., which bought MySpace in 2005 for $650 million, back when it had 17 million monthly unique visitors and very little revenue. Since then MySpace has rocketed to 60 million monthly users in the U.S., surpassed Yahoo as the No. 1 U.S. Web site in terms of page views, and is expected to generate nearly $500 million in revenues this year.

But a group of 33 state attorneys general led by Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal are investigating taking legal action against MySpace if it doesn't raise the age limit to join the site to 16 (from 14 currently) and begin verifying MySpace members' ages against public databases.

A lawsuit by the attorneys general could cost MySpace tens of millions of dollars in fees and generate reams of negative publicity, at a time when major advertisers are just overcoming their concerns about the site.

So far, MySpace has refused to take either of the steps demanded by the attorneys general. It defends its age limit of 14, arguing that it is better for high-schoolers to join with the special privacy controls designed for 14- and 15-year-old members than to lie about their age to join. "If you're 14 you'll try to get on our site anyway because your friends are going to be on it," says Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer for Fox Interactive Media, the unit that oversees MySpace.

(MySpace users who list their ages as 14 and 15 are automatically given a private profile that can't be browsed by members who list their age as over 18. Users over 18 can't add 14 and 15 year olds as friends unless they know the teenagers' first and last name or e-mail address. MySpace members under 18 can't access "mature" groups and can block contact from adults they don't already know.)

MySpace says it hasn't yet found a solution for the attorney generals' request for age verification. "We've spoken to a number of companies and we have not yet found a firm or technology that can reliably verify the age of our members under 18," Mr. Nigam says.

Privately, News Corp. officials and others in the industry say that age verification is difficult to implement for kids under the age of 18, because they often lack a driver's license or other government-issued identification. It can be done with parental permission slips -- but it's not always easy to verify the relationship between a parent and a child, and MySpace could be legally liable for mistakes.

Zephyr would put the burden on parents to monitor whether their children are lying about their ages (a favorite gambit of some kids who like to assume other identities on social-networking sites.) Parents are also often concerned that children will provide too much real information that could make them easy prey for kidnappers or molesters. The idea is to "give parents a tool to force a discussion with their kid." Mr. Nigam says.

MySpace has to tread a delicate line to keep the spirit of its Web site intact, while continuing to add safety features. The company says it is confident that the software won't alienate teen users because it isn't reporting on the teens activities, only about the features that any MySpace user could see on a teens' MySpace profile. Mr. Nigam adds that many teens also have said they want greater protection on the site. "Our teens have told us that being safe on our site doesn't mean they are no longer cool," adds Mr. Nigam.

In the meantime, MySpace officials have been discussing Zephyr with others in the Internet industry, and facing much skepticism.

In December, MySpace demonstrated the program to the leading Internet companies, including Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, at a meeting at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington D.C.

The meeting was filled with tough questions, says Ernie Allen, president and chief executive of the center, who worries that parents won't use the software since only 50 percent of parents currently use Internet blocking or monitoring software.

MySpace demonstrated a system that works as follows. A parent can download the free software onto his or her home computers. The software will identify any user who logs onto MySpace from those computers and collect his or her user name, age, and hometown. That information will be stored on the hard drive and parents (actually, whoever has the administrative privileges on that computer) can access it using a password. That information is also publicly available to anyone who visits MySpace's Web site, but many parents have trouble locating their kids' profile pages because kids often don't use their real names.

The software will not monitor the MySpace user's movements or email, but it will "tag" the profile and report back to the parent if the user name, age or hometown have been changed. The software will collect this information about anyone who logs onto MySpace from the home computer, so it could collect information about a child's friends as well as the child.

One big issue at the meeting was whether MySpace's software would violate the privacy of users. Other social-networking sites have more restrictive privacy rules than MySpace -- not allowing anyone to see a user's age or location, for example.

Another concern was that the software could be used by people other than parents to monitor the MySpace usage on their computers.

Still another issue is whether it will be easy to opt out. MySpace says that people who log onto MySpace from a computer that has the software installed will be notified. But MySpace says it still hasn't been decided whether users will have a chance to quit MySpace before their profile is 'tagged' by the software.

Such concerns have led some companies to decline to join MySpace's efforts, including college-oriented social networking Web site Facebook, which had 19.1 million unique visitors in December, and the blogging site Xanga, which had 4.6 million unique visitors in December, according to comScore Media Metrix.

"Based on what we've been told, Xanga cannot participate because doing so would require Xanga to share private consumer data with any third party who downloaded the software in violation of our privacy policy," says Stephen Kline, chief safety officer of Xanga.

Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly says that MySpace's approach is "inconsistent with our privacy architecture." Unlike MySpace profiles which can be viewed by anybody on the Web, Facebook only allows its profiles to be viewed by people the member has specified as friends, colleagues or schoolmates or associates through another network.

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL haven't yet said whether they will sign onto the MySpace initiative, but people close to those companies caution that each has their own safety and security initiatives that are higher priority. Yahoo, for instance, provides parental controls for millions of subscribers to Internet services that use Yahoo's technology. "Giving parents the ability to block access to content is much more important than just reporting that their children have been seeing content," says Yahoo spokesman Jim Cullinan. "

So far, it looks unlikely that the new software will appease the attorneys general. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who co-chairs the group with Mr. Blumenthal, says MySpace's software "notifies the parent too late. At best it's after the child has offered his age. At worst, it's when he's already left to meet a child predator."

Larry Magid, author of MySpace Unraveled and a Web site BlogSafety.com, says MySpace's software seems like an important step. But, he cautions "there is no tool that will solve the problem of parents not taking an interest in what their kids are doing on the Internet."

Write to Julia Angwin at julia.angwin@wsj.com

Pictures from Christmas Break

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My first visit to CN Tower. (Click on the picture to view the complete set.)

Niagara Falls Trip, 2006 Christmas. (Click on the picture to view the complete set.)

Ottawa, 2006 Christmas. (Click on the picture to view the complete set.)

Quebec City, 2006 Christmas. (Click on the picture to view the complete set.)

For those who I still owe the pictures from different occasions, be patient! They are still in the camera and left untouched yet. I am not sure when it is gonna be, hehe, but for sure you will be getting them.

cheers.

无题

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刚才算是览了一圈所谓的名人博客，想着也就到自个儿着落两笔吧。
这两天一个人独守空房，加上节日期间过度消费，只能咬紧牙在家闭关。每天一进家门，就浑身泛懒，只想往床上钻，坐姿怎么都调不正，一泄气，这不，又在床上躺着了。今晚本该在家研究宠物网站，结果密码失踪，网站域名怎么也想不起，只能作罢。明天去同事家看小孩玩，算作市场调查，热闹，据说小孩儿已经蠢蠢欲动，算计着怎么秀给我看了。
最近也拍了些照，可惜满意的甚少，主要都是在捣鼓光圈和快门，测试为主，内容也都般般，没什么可现的。一圈拍完了，才大概想明白光圈，可想而知了。想着这个玩顺了，下半年有机会碰碰胶片的。
值得一提的是最近我的体重飙升，直线挺进历史最高点，算是一大打击了。这坐电梯上去容易，要下来，别说坐电梯下来了，连这电梯门也不好找。天天琢磨着，怎么办呢？！

最后贴张讨口彩的照片，新年里大展宏图，一帆风顺。哈哈。

As at the first day in 2007

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2007, a busy year for yan, a quiet year for EveryBody has Blog.