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All right, sounds good! Camel bar for the match and back to Slice of Heaven to celebrate the All Blacks win. If the unlikely occurs and the French win I will be going home to cry for the next week :-) But I might be able to squeeze in a pie to comfort me anyway

Hate to say it at Samoana the atmosphere is good but the internet is a bit too unreliable for the finals. I would go mad if the internet cut out and we couldn't watch!

So is this the plan? Everyone head to Camel bar?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > My mac needs reviving...

Most people don't realise but all Apple products have secret programming in them which links them to the life signs of Steve Jobs. Once he dies, all Apple products will last for maximum of 1 year but can fail at any point within that year. Looks like yours is one of the early ones.

OK OK, bad joke, what is actually wrong? "Acting funny" isn't really too good of a description! How full is your hard drive? Do you get errors on start up? If so what? Do you get any errors at all? Or is it just slow?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Rugby World Cup

I am a kiwi that lives close by to Samoana... I am totally there. It looks like the NZ v France game is at 4:30pm this Saturday, 8:30pm NZ time. Be there or be 口.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Kebab craving! Kebab!

I eighth this motion, I loved the box kebabs and went through 2 cards when they were here! They were as tasty as you can find (or tastier) than anywhere in the west! KEBABS somebody, kebabs! Actually I am surprised the Box hasn't continued the service... it can't be all that hard!

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Another error I still get - when loading the mobile site, it seems like the fonts take an age to load. Not sure why but it sits around trying to load all the time.

Also the listings (while still there) haven't been sorted out yet. Not sure if your advertisers will be happy about it, I certainly wouldn't be! I would advise at least having the latest reviews and listings appear (i.e. in reverse chronological order) when the city is opened, defaulting to Kunming, as an interim measure. Previously they were a great way to find out about new places, now they pretty much don't exist and are near enough to invisible on the site.

And I get what you said about the side bar after visiting USA today. The difference with USA today of course is that it is a shadowed main column which provides (when combined with the non aligned sidebar) a sense of the main column appearing to float over the side bar. As you have a flat main column though it seems that the columns are just misaligned.

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My god. How ridiculously dangerous and irresponsible. The race organisers should be ashamed.

Having done multisport events myself, if the organisers encourage participants to kayak in whitewater when they can neither swim or know how to control a kayak is tantamount to criminal negligence. When someone dies (not if, if this continues) which is incredibly likely if it has not already happened, hopefully the race is shut down or the organisers completely changed to people who actually know what they are doing.

You poor bastard Patrick, I guess this is a lesson learned?

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One thing that is missing - the latest reviews from the side menu! I thought that was a good touch as it would alert me to any new places which I haven't been to before...

Maybe you should have a search in the top bar as well? With a drop down to select what you want to search? Just that search is also missing off the front page.

Regarding the search, you may want to have it not just by the individual key word entries, but also by the total string and possibly by the individual combinations. So if I search for "best VPN in China" I would get results for "best VPN in China" first. Then you look at splitting the phrase into 2/3 (e.g. "best VPN" and "in China") then you can remove the common words (in/at/the etc) and do a relevance search. Its much more resource intensive for the DB but will provide more accurate results. Depending on what system you use Full Text Indexing with Natural Language interpretation including stop lists should be possible as well (Database geek here!).

And finally, which is better?
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Nice one, new site looks good and is whaboom, fast! Couple of teething problems:

The Calendar bar at the top of pages isn't horizontally aligned with the page content, leaving a chunk of blue space. That looks a bit naff and makes the site look unprofessional. Not sure if this is intentional or not, but I would change it!
The comment box can be expanded but only vertically, it should be able to be expanded horizontally too or at least stretch to the right side of the articlebody section. I guess you are trying to stop people from writing narratives? It will probably happen anyway...

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Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.

We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.

If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.

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Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!

One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)

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This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.

You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.

Great bus though if you can catch it!

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Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!

English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!