As part of my English language teaching position in a Chinese university, I’ve been asked to participate as a judge in a Speech Competition. But unknown to me, being the only foreign judge, I was expected to give a closing impromptu speech for the competition. So with only very little preparation time I successfully managed to overcome my fear and get up in front of the Dean of English, other high ranking staff and 200 students to spend 5 minutes saying my regards, thanks and congratulations to everyone involved.
To keep up with some technical skills while living in China, I’ve gone from knowing very little about how email, DNS management, website hosting and servers work to managing my own VPS, hosting a few websites, and managing my own domain email. Through this process I investigated using dynamic DNS and hosting my website under Linux in a virtual machine, under windows running WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and finally hosting it remotely in a Debian based VPS.
I have also been working on a web application with a Chinese software developer. Using Python and Google App Engine, with SVN task, bug and revision tracking, we are developing an open source version of the popular German game Settlers of Catan in both a user-vs-user mode and a user-vs-computer mode.
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