Big ups to <a href="http://c239.pitas.com">This Person</a> for linking to my page, although I'm no longer living in Tianjin!  Hopefully I will get the chance to visit again, probably a quick summer trip.  I don't know the identity of the linker, but she gets big ups in my book because she watches Japanese and Taiwanese dramas.  Maybe I'll snag her copy of <a href="http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&amp;userid=sweetangelprep14&amp;include=0&amp;since=-1&amp;sort=3&amp;rows=25">Meteor Shower</a>.

Clara arrived in Los Angeles yesterday.  I picked her up at the Disneyland Hotel, which is really a crazy place.  At most hotels, the swimming pool seems like a second-rate afterthought plopped down in the middle of the complex so that all the voyeurs can peek out their windows at you.  Well, at Disney Hotel it's a complete waterpark with jungle plants, water slides and lifeguards.  Crazy.  I wore my "Lei Feng" T-shirt.  Lei Feng is a hero of the ongoing Chinese Communist (socialist?) revolution.  He was a studious soldier and a filial young man.  Two Chinese tourists noticed and chuckled as they went past.  I hadn't realized we'd be going to Shirley's house that evening, or I wouldn't have worn it.  Her parents aren't too crazy about the Communists.  Also at the hotel, a couple little Japanese girls walked past me chattering away.  I felt like I had been transported into a drama episode!  Ha!  Clara arrived late because the airport shuttle left early, before she reached the stop.  On top of that, it didn't drop her off at the directly at the hotel, but in another place designated as an airport shuttle drop-off that was about 15 minutes walking from the hotel.  It was a sunny day, and she had a big bag to carry so it wasn't a pleasant walk.  But it's over, and she is safely here.

Joe Howley tells us the <a href="http://joe.sameperson.net/amonsul/browser.php">Definitive Browser Statistics</a>, but he significantly edited it from his original e-mail which I quote here:

<quote>> Hello,
> Is any of you aware of the latest browser share statistics? Since CSS is so
> browser-dependent, it would be nice to include an ongoing updated resource
> on browser statistics in the website. Just an opinion.
<br />
The consensus we always seem to reach when discussing this is of several parts:
- every "browser share statistics" report is different
- ns4 is declining
- ns4 is still a presence
- ie dominates
- what about opera?  opera can pretend to be something else. what about opera?  eh?  eh?!
- my browser share statistics can beat up your browser share statistics, nyah nyah nyah
- it ultimately doesn't really matter *
- you should really think about the share in your _intended audience_ (or existing audience) when determing how best to alter your standards-compliant code to work with various browser support *
<br />
[* - these are the important bits]
<br />
Everyone will give you different share stats.  So don't worry about it,
code to standards, and then figure out what the needs of _your audience_
are.
<br />
Cheers,
===
joe howley</quote>

Look here for an update on the party later today.