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There is no direct flight from Beijing to Hawaii, we had to transfer at Narita airport in Tokyo. I prefer such a transfer during the long flight.

The total flight lasts about 9 hours, but plus the change between the time zones, by the time we touched the land at Hawaii, we found ourselves to be several hours ahead of the time when we flew from Beijing, that is, when we boarded the plane at Beijing the time was like 11:00 am of 26th of March, but when arrived in Hawaii, the time was still 07:00 am in the same day, but it made me feel the long flight seems to be unreal.

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I am now on a 2-weeks trip in the U.S., coming back with more photos.

I will go to Honolulu, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC, pretty busy for the next 2 weeks.

Right now I just past over Honolulu, the clouds and sky impressed me a lot.

Ok, finally Google is gone from mainland China this morning. I am waiting to see what is going to happen to Gmail, Google Maps, etc. Hope it will not get the same luck as Facebook and Twitter.

Fortunately before I get used to the Google Dot Cn searching, the service now is finished today.

Good Luck !

This page offers a summary of Google service accessibility from within mainland China.

Suppose there is a big cornfield, and you are asked to pick up the biggest golden ear of wheat, and the condition is that there is only one to pick, and you can only go ahead without return, what you will do?

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From 14th to 21st of Feb. 2010, I had a trip in Israel, this is my first time to middle east, during this trip I had also a two day excursion in Jordan.

About a month ago, I began to prepare this trip.

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Two days before Chinese New Year.

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Last year I got an add-on device for my Nikon camera, it was very convenient to locate the photos that I shoot, wherever I was, the GPS data will be inserted behind the photo, and when I go home, I just upload the photos to the Panoramio site, it was fantastic, all the photos will be mapped automatically on the map.

It was fun till last December, when I upload photos to the same website, the photos were mapped somewhere else, the offset could be even a hundred km away. After a little research, I think the Panoramio got some problems recently, the proof is, to upload a same picture both to Panoramio, and Flickr, they were mapped at different spot, Flicky got the right location.

I don’t know when Panoramio will fix this problem, but before that, I have to map them manually. I will have a chance to visit Israel by the Chinese New Year, hope I can find myself in the map.

By the way, if you have a Nikon, the GPS will work on: D5000, D90, D200, D300, D3, D3x.

For the last few days, Beijing is very warm and sunny. Today I have an afternoon stroll through the alleys in the south of the historic area of Beijing. My itinerary goes as: Baoguosi Temple (a flea market), and Dashilan Area.

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On Jan. 23rd, I got a chance to visit the Great Wall at Mutianyu section, and in the afternoon, I was in the Forbidden City again. That was a very nice day, not windy at all, and the sky was blue, the snow was still there.

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About 2 hours ago, Apple just released their first so called IPAD, it is about 9-inch tablet, starting price at $499, 16G, for 3G products charge another $130 more, the new toy will be in the market in 60 days…

I am sure, there will be another rush for this.

For more detail, check the engadget site here, or just go to Apple’s site here.