Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming feedback - Searching on GoKM is a nightmare, I will use google with the site:gokunming.com search modifier to get better results. Sort order should be Relevance/Date/word hits (do you use full text queries? I think you are MySQL right?). Search results page should be better laid out.
- Sort out the Events sidebar, its quite bad (I previously said my piece on this, you guys said you were thinking and implementing the same).
- The events page, shocker. Move the calendar to the middle section and stretch the words across the page.
- I think you are designed for 1024*768 and as of January this year that was 13% of people (Jan 2008 50%) on the web and dropping fast. Recommend increasing the page size and using wrapping for those on old resolutions.
- Better menus on your classified page (www.gokunming.com/en/classifieds/). Having more like the forums page would be better but recommend redesigning both.
- The first thing I do on my mobile is switch to full view. The mobile version is pants plain and simple. If you really want to do it right, invest in making an app for Android/iPhone, but this is a serious commitment if you aren't trained in making these already. If not, I wouldn't even worry about a mobile version anymore as screen resolutions are getting bigger and bandwidth is no longer a problem for your very lite site anyway.
- Align the Private Messages with the Profile heading in the dashboard... actually I could come up with a lot here... how deep should we go?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Advice for Summer Travel You could probably do Laos - Thailand - Myanmar - India, but a month wouldn't leave you much time in each place. I would probably just go to Myanmar and India if I was you (India is huge though you will probably only be able to see a small part).
The reasons are mainly around location - Russia is miles away and you probably should have gone there when you were in Beijing. Laos and Cambodia you can go to another time because they are so damn close and both are pretty small - one of the national holiday weeks you can head to each place and see pretty much everything that's interesting. Myanmar and India are relatively close too, both are pretty big though so would require a couple of weeks each for a nice explore and to get into the culture.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Is walking from Haigeng Park area to Xi Shan possible? Oh yeah - regarding the trails on Xi Shan - is it OK to go exploring different trails? Anything I need to be aware of (dogs/army bases/people who don't like you on their land etc)?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Is walking from Haigeng Park area to Xi Shan possible? Cool, thanks guys! Didn't realise there was an annual pass to all parks, cheers ludwig.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Is walking from Haigeng Park area to Xi Shan possible? Will probably be moving to the south soon, in the north there is pretty good running along the river and up Chanchong Shan when it isn't closed. I figure there would be some cool tracks up Xi Shan to do some trail running... but can you run there across the bridge from Haigeng park area? Google earth/searching turns up nothing so not sure if its possible...
Any other good trail running in the south?
Fundraiser: More For Baby children's autism center
发布者I used to work with scientists in an Environmental Protection Agency - most of them were convinced that autism and many other birth defects are linked to pollutants in our food and environmental systems. These pollutants (everything from heavy metals to simple cleaning agents to pesticides etc) end up accumulating in top predators (humans/tuna etc) where they begin to cause birth defects once they accumulate to a certain level. I remember seeing graphs on the rate of pollutants in environments vs the rates of different birth defects - they almost all followed exactly the same trajectories, to the point that causation was directly implied.
The problem was they didn't know exactly WHICH pollutants caused which defects, which essentially gave them nothing to base banning certain chemicals on. The problem was many chemicals started being used at around the same time, making it very difficult to point fingers. Its a situation where the exact causes aren't known, therefore nothing can be blamed. Which highlights a large problem with legislative process - the precautionary principle isn't followed, what is followed is release of pollutants on a massive scale because there are no studies proving such pollutants ARE harmful (despite having no evidence that AREN'T harmful). To me that is backwards, but it is the way it works unfortunately.
There could be a link between autism and vaccination programs, but I have not seen any data that supports that. I would be more inclined to believe that China's use (and lack of banning) of many known chemicals that cause reproductive disorders is the cause. Hell, they still use DDT here a very strong endocrine disruptor, all but banned in developed countries. Just run down the list of POPs that are considered extremely dangerous... endrin, aldrin, dieldrin... all produced and used within China.
Fujian billionaire loses Yunnan Baiyao lawsuit
发布者Yep. Very indicative of how important contracts are in China when it comes to rule of law... contracts are worth nothing, even in the highest courts.
Fujian billionaire loses Yunnan Baiyao lawsuit
发布者I think you mean 1.3 billion in Capital Gain, which is a different thing than dividends. Likely dividend payout on the shares would have been something like $80million yuan (assuming ~$1.2 dividends over the past 5 years)
Learning the art of the crossbow in Yunnan
发布者Nice story!
I thought a crossbow bow drawing apparatus was called a cranequin? I remember reading this from some book about soldiers way back when... you can see Tyrion using a simple one at the end of Game Of Thrones season 4!
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
发布者I wouldn't call all profit driven development bad Alien. But profit driven development with zero controls from governments clearly is...