Weirdness from China
Jul. 8th, 2007 02:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theoriginalblurkerMade it!
Here I am, back on the 73rd floor of the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai. There's another building going up next to us, and I have a great view of the construction. It's BIG.
The weirdness is associated with my internet connection. I mentioned a while ago about the censoring of television here. (I can't find the entry, but there was a situation where Bush was being protested by a Chinese national, and CNN was running the video, but every time it came to the point where you could hear what was said, in Chinese, the cable went out. It took me a few tries until I realized it was being purposely blocked.) Well, for some reason, I can't reach my usual journaling sites through the hotel internet. It was annoying as hell until I found that I could do so by using my company's VPN to tunnel there via the US networks. So there, you censoring meanies! ;)
So, yes, you lucky people will have me posting from China once again. I know you're just pining for messages from me while I'm away.
This trip is only scheduled to last a week. I'm not doing the typical training/auditing this time. What I'm doing this week is working on a a specific issue with one of our suppliers. We are looking at the effect of higher pollution/dust levels in India on the failure rates of our products there. Why am I in China then? The units are being sent from India to the supplier, who happens to be here in China, where we will do the in-depth failure analysis. The program will run for 90 days, but I will be here for the first week to help train the engineers in how to inspect for contamination and corrosion. I'm looking forward to getting some good data over the course of the study, and hopefully getting a publication out of it.
Here I am, back on the 73rd floor of the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai. There's another building going up next to us, and I have a great view of the construction. It's BIG.
The weirdness is associated with my internet connection. I mentioned a while ago about the censoring of television here. (I can't find the entry, but there was a situation where Bush was being protested by a Chinese national, and CNN was running the video, but every time it came to the point where you could hear what was said, in Chinese, the cable went out. It took me a few tries until I realized it was being purposely blocked.) Well, for some reason, I can't reach my usual journaling sites through the hotel internet. It was annoying as hell until I found that I could do so by using my company's VPN to tunnel there via the US networks. So there, you censoring meanies! ;)
So, yes, you lucky people will have me posting from China once again. I know you're just pining for messages from me while I'm away.
This trip is only scheduled to last a week. I'm not doing the typical training/auditing this time. What I'm doing this week is working on a a specific issue with one of our suppliers. We are looking at the effect of higher pollution/dust levels in India on the failure rates of our products there. Why am I in China then? The units are being sent from India to the supplier, who happens to be here in China, where we will do the in-depth failure analysis. The program will run for 90 days, but I will be here for the first week to help train the engineers in how to inspect for contamination and corrosion. I'm looking forward to getting some good data over the course of the study, and hopefully getting a publication out of it.
