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After over a month of essentially constant panic (including working straight through the October holidays), Imagethief is off on a richly deserved vacation to Australia with his wife and son tomorrow. I probably won't be posting while I'm gone, but given my complete lack of time for writing recently I doubt anyone will notice the difference. With ...

Imagethief would like to take this spare few minutes to apologize to readers for the radio silence of the last week or two. I've been a little busy. What do I mean by that? Well, if delicious idleness is a bamboo hut on a tropical beach, and my normal work busy is a four story walkup, the last three weeks have been the Empire State Building. I ...

A note to San Francisco-based readers: The San Francisco Film Society is hosting a screening of my brother's documentary ''Full Battle Rattle'' on October 17. Details on the venue and a link to ticketing are on the San Francisco Film Society Website. The description of the film: Deep in the Mojave Desert lies the Fort Irwin National Training ...

As a video hobbyist it has always rankled me a bit that my blog engine didn't allow me to embed streaming videos into posts. Finally, after tireless Googling and some nerve-wracking edits to the blog engine and script configuration files that problem appears to be resolved. This will spare me the laborious practice of snapping and uploading linked ...

During last May's ChinaICT conference Imagethief was interviewed by the Christine Lu of the China Business Network. I spoke mostly about my background, the blog and what I thought people interested in working in China should do. The video is online at ChinaOnTV at: http://www.chinaontv.com/index.php/video_play_new/E11504 or, if you're in ...

Imagethief heads to the US for work tomorrow. I'll be in San Diego for three days, then in San Francisco for a night to see my family before accompanying Mrs. Imagethief and Zachary (who are already in the USA) back to China on Saturday. We arrive on Sunday, and then I'm off to Singapore for three days on Monday. Needless to say, posting may be ...

Imagethief will be on vacation in Singapore next week, introducing his son to his Singaporean grandparents for the first time. (And getting him vaccinated and setting up his health insurance and bank account and etc. Not really much of a vacation at all, really...) Posting and tweeting will be light. And now that I think about it, if I'd wandered ...

China mavens will know that China has tightened up its visa issuance regulations significantly in recent weeks. There has been much piecemeal reporting on this, but it has been hard to find good, comprehensive information on the situation. While several blogs have covered this pretty well, the most comprehensive information I have found so far is ...

  My brother, Jesse Moss, is a documentary filmmaker who's major projects to date include films about a notorious con man, a demolition derby driver, and Republicans in Hollywood (all three available on DVD from Docurama, via Amazon). His latest film, co-directed with Tony Gerber, is ''Full Battle Rattle'', about ''Medina Wasl'', the ...

In May Imagethief had a chance to get together with Chinese propaganda poster expert, Prof. Dr. Stefan Landsberger of Leiden University in the Netherlands. Stefan literally wrote the book on Chinese propaganda posters (it's no longer available new, but he kindly sent Imagethief a copy, for which I am grateful) and runs a great online archive of ...