Yesterday was spent upgrading pretty much everything on the server. If you find something that doesn’t work please let me know. The only thing I found that broke during all of the ugrades was the little spam word thing on the comments I’d installed as an extra, so I disabled it until I get a [...]

The site is back up now, but if it should go down again make sure you have the backup site bookmarked somewhere:
http://isorumors.blogspot.com/
The news is bad this morning for the Steven Curtis Chapman family. Their youngest daughter was killed in a tragic accident. You can read about it here. My heart goes out to the family. [...]

Monday morning, May 19th: HTS reports that Mianyang has become a major refugee center. There are more than 20,000 refugees in the city’s stadium. They are told (but have not confirmed) that the entire center area of the stadium is reserved for toddlers and infants. HTS has someone headed there now so they should know [...]

As I reported yesterday, HTS (Half the Sky) reports that they have had contact with the Chengdu, Chongqing and Yibin orphanages and that all is well. The children were all evacuated until the tremors passed, the buildings suffered no great damage, and no children were injured. This morning they note that the children have once [...]

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A magnitued 7.4 or 7.6 or 7.8 (preliminary numbers at this point, but still big, no matter what) quake hit China last night, in Sichuan province. News reports say that there is no serious damage in the provincial capital of Chengdu.
They are reporting that cellular service [...]

National Geographic has a spread on China in their latest edition, and to go along with it they have an online version as well.
The main link is here:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/journey/hessler-text
Across the top you’ll see links for Middle Class, Guizhou Village, Olympic Boom, Bitter Waters, etc. Make sure you check out those links.
There are also some videos you [...]