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Yesterday was a plethora of frustrations.<\/p>\n

I went shopping for some camera items in the electronics district. The glitzy Canon booth was manned by someone who wanted to play \u201cscrew the foreigner.\u201d That\u2019s not entirely true, they try to screw everyone.<\/p>\n

Bargaining is an age-old tradition in China. I asked how much the lens was. The clerk picked up a calculator and typed 6000 \u5143. I snorted and walked away. He tried to call me back, but I was insulted.<\/p>\n

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To put his price in perspective, another shopkeeper quoted 4200 \u5143. I have used the line, Wo bu ben. Wo de lao po shi zhong guo ren<\/em>, in the past during such situations (I\u2019m not stupid. My wife is Chinese). Yesterday, I couldn\u2019t be bothered. I don\u2019t need Kreskinesque<\/a> abilities to know a trip to Stanley Street in Hong Kong, and a non-insulting camera shop, is in my future.<\/p>\n

Back at home I decided to change the theme of this page. I\u2019ve wanted to for a while, something with a wider post area for larger photographs. I found a theme I liked, downloaded it, and began to customize. I found some bizarre code and after checking in the WordPress forums discovered it was actually hidden spyware. The author was counting my hits. Cheeky.<\/p>\n

Long story short (too late), I wasted three hours with this nasty theme <\/a>(six if you count finding a new theme and customizing that.)<\/p>\n

Above is my taxi driver from yesterday. Not my best work, but try shooting in a jiggly taxi with a non-IS lens. Getting a light reading off a rearview mirror, and focusing on said mirror, is a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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