Friday afternoon: not much going on. Everyone's busy with "conferences", "client meetings" and "seminars". Read copious amounts of drinking and rugby watching. Personally I'm unlikely to witness the spectacle of 40,000 gweilos competing to spill the most beer and act the most outrageously this year. Something to add to the list of Hong Kong things to do in the future.

Once you've read every single entry I've made this week and in keeping with the week-old tradition I'm going to pick some of the better bits around the blogosphere this week for your reading pleasure.

Paul is lecturing in Blogging 101, lesson 1 and lesson 2. It's funny in a "Oh my God that's all true" kind of way.
Andres has a thoughtful reflection on Chinese nationalism.
DaGoddess has moved house and Phil's started a business.
Rob finds another good use for Google.
Pixy let again eloquently answers a ding-bing.
Munu welcomes G'day Mate to its world domination portfolio team.
Jim becomes tactlessly correct.
Life 6 is working out well for Helen.

The story closest to my heart this week has been China's banning of all typepad and blogs.com hosted sites. Links are summarised here and one apparent reason behind it is here.

Finally one last site you need to go visit is ALN - a worthwhile use of the blog medium.

Now you'll have to excuse me because someone took my last piece of gum and I'm in a bad mood.