My Soliloquy

beichenshi:

（本文写于Evernote正式宣布入华前，此文发出来之后我再补充了一篇。）

我曾写过一篇文章介绍Evernote，我也经常在推特和微博上谈论我使用Evernote的感受，并时常推荐朋友使用这款软件，这是我作为一名Evernote普通用户表达我对这款软件的喜爱的表现。

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和谐六年，薄氏后人公子熙来遭谪贬出京，封西南侯。遂颁新政，恤民情，吟旧歌，整吏制。又召辽国旧部王氏掌刑部。王至，兴新狱，杀旧吏，剿豪强，禁讼师，一时声噪朝野。然有南粤侯汪氏，愤其旧党朋皆遭薄公罢黜，愤愤然煽风点火，弄权于上下，发檄文，递奏本，终策使贺太尉面奏御前，差锦衣卫查办王氏。情事陡变变，薄公或忌祸延及己，弃意起。和谐十年初，王贬礼部，心腹皆困，懑，于上元日星夜，遁至蜀都西洋馆。薄公急令校尉追之。西馆递解出。
然薄公力有不逮，王终由锦衣卫押至京都。时值王储将西巡，帝等九长老惴惴然不悦，近则忧其笼络民心而功高盖主，远则忧其独树一帜生登基之变！遂先遣温尚书昭示天下劝其反思，后使张侍郎代司其职罢其官爵。万民闻之皆愕然，惜之者，讽之者，以拳击掌者，事不关己者不一而足。有山叟卯公集民谣记之：三月十五日，公子遭罢免。王侯尚如此，布衣怎维权？
薄情也好，温情也罢，只不过是胡说；山河未永康，尚待勇克强，你以为德满江，你以为已长春，其实仅小平而已，国待强，邦未耀；呜呼，你立于岐山之巅，见汪洋之源正潮涌，你梦想泽东又泽民，其实都抵不过，高处丽人，正声细问：习以为常否？
（作者不详，写于和谐十年季春三月）

blockedonweibo:

薄熙来 (Bo Xilai) was the party secretary (essentially the mayor) of Chongqing from 2007 to 2012. He was the son of Bo Yibo, one of the Eight Elders and a prominent Chinese Communist Party official. Bo Xilai was speculated to be a prime candidate for appointment to the highest governing body in China, the Politburo Standing Committee until he was ousted from him position earlier today.

Why it is NOT blocked: This is a case where what is not blocked is more interesting than what is. Bo Xilai was recently involved in a major controversy when his police chief visited the American consulate in a nearby city, supposedly in a bid to request political asylum after offering to reveal his boss’s corruption to central authorities. Under normal circumstances, one would assume a nervous Internet company would play it safe and block everything associated with the incident, and for a time, the police chief’s name, 王立军 (Wang Lijun), was blocked. However, it was subsequently unblocked and Bo Xilai’s name has remained unblocked as well, even becoming a trending topic on Weibo after his removal was announced. Speculation is that the Chinese leadership ordered Weibo to keep Bo Xilai’s name unblocked in order to openly purge him and the cloud hanging over him before the transition to new leadership later this year.

A limerick for the fallen Bo:
Young Bo was a man of great morals,
Who was never afraid of a quarrel.
    But his chief of police
    Was given 假期 [pronounced jiàqī]
So now his career? In a spiral. 

阿姆斯特丹周围的火车跟北部的不同之处，除了换了一家运营公司之外，还有在于晚点和班次也更为频繁些。而诸多车型中，也只有一种在Groningen常常会看到的单层intercity车上会有免费的wifi可用；而2层的intercity以及其他stoptrein，sprinter等都是没有的，所以需要常常要花点时间来思考怎么来打发在那些车上消磨的时间。

很多人在阿姆斯特丹上班，本身却又不是住在那里或者郊区地带，所以每天要坐火车上班。早上的火车经常看到旅客睡意似有似无的，或默默的喝着咖啡，或静静的翻看免费报纸，或者干脆带上耳机指尖在手机屏上游走。这跟下班后的火车是截然不同的。晚班的火车，虽然带有一天上班的倦意，却又有一种回家的愉悦；若看到放学的小孩在车厢里嬉戏，旁边的大人看到童真之处也难免会心一笑。

坐在火车上如果有注意沿途的风景，便会分辨出什么时间已经开到了阿姆斯特丹或者它的郊区。从Amersfoort开来的方向，便会在一个听上去很像是”恶魔”（diemen）的地方看到大片的火车线以及闲置火车厢，然后剩下的路途的风景便全然是城市风光了。

到了阿姆斯特丹的centraal火车站，一走出车厢，迎面而来往往是播音员用低沉而又稳重的女音说道：”dames en heren, de intercity naar…”或者用法语播报前往布鲁塞尔的班次。大部分旅客一下车便行色匆匆，大厅内摩肩接踵，会让不少来自边远地区的人不太舒服。人们在快速的行进中，又小心翼翼与别人保持一定的间距。若走出车站看到的是维多利亚酒店和圣尼古拉斯大教堂，耳际回响的是有轨电车非常古典的铃音，那么阿姆斯特丹就已经在眼前了。

peppersprayingcop:

“Worst. Day. Ever. I just want to get to my daughter’s birthday party. That’s all. That’s IT. And now this bullshit. Just one more fucking thing and I am going to lose itAAAUAUAUAAAGAGAGAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

关于美警喷辣椒的笑话，中国记者，奥总，你对美国警察拿辣椒水喷示威者有什么看法？奥巴马笑道，你的意思是我们要用坦克么？

从郑州市民“声援”华尔街革命到美国时代周刊报道微博和谐，总时间竟然还不到一个月。

最初“占领华尔街”运动被官方媒体用来抨击西方资本主义，但到运动蔓延到香港，日本时，官方对其态度愈显尴尬。而现在在新浪微博里搜索“占领+中国省会城市”，都会显示：

根据相关法律法规和政策，“占领XX”搜索结果未予显示

事实上，对“占领华尔街”的转变跟一年前闹得沸沸扬扬的维基解密是一样的。媒体首先高调宣传，称西方的媒体自由是虚伪的，但很快维基解密主站便被封锁，原因是天朝比美国更怕被揭老底。

The latest batch of diplomatic cables unearthed by WikiLeaks reveals China’s failure to measure certain pollution levels and the government’s silence about the issue. Several newly revealed cables, dating from 2006, show that certain types of air pollution aren’t measured at all in China and …

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