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Old Imagethief site temporarily offline

Apologies to anyone trying to access the pre-2010 archives the last few days or stumbling into dead links from search returns. The old news.imagethief site, where all pre-2010 posts live, is offline for some reason. I’m looking into it.

An unpaid endorsement: CCSweets cupcakes

Imagethief has had a gnawing emptiness in his soul since homespun donut-maker Beijing Guilt packed it in a year or two ago. Our friend Maya brought a box of those donuts to us in the hospital when Zach was born, and I can taste them to this day. AmCare catered from Annie’s, which put its [...]

A big change for Imagethief

Regular readers will have noticed that I’ve been a bit below-the-horizon the last few weeks. Sorry about that. There are two main reasons. First, my father was here for three weeks so I spent a fair amount of time with him and the rest of my family, on a trip to Xi’an among other things. [...]

Gargling, air crashes, and NewsMorphosis mini update

Just pulled into Narita on my way back from Beijing. We’d been parked in a holding pattern due to high winds (and experienced one of the most roller-coaster landings I’ve ever endured), which gave my bladder extra time to fill up and stretch. It’s the damn Diet Cokes that do it. Anyway, as I was [...]

Welcome to the new Imagethief

Welcome to the new and (we hope) improved Imagethief blog. After many years on my old platform, I’ve finally upped-stakes and shifted to Wordpress with the help of longtime patron, Joe Pantuso. This has given me an excuse to tart up the look and feel, and it also gives me a little more behind-the-scenes flexibility, [...]

Two posts you won't read

Note: This is cross-posted from the old Imagethief blog. The original post is here.

Imagethief spent the weekend writing two posts about current PR issues (well, one of them was only relatively current). However, after some reflection I’ve decided to kill them both. While they don’t touch directly on work I or my firm is doing [...]

We're back, plus the great Christmas pox of '09

Note: This is cross-posted from the old Imagethief blog. The original post is here.

On Sunday Imagethief arrived in Beijing from two well-earned holiday weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Flying with Zachary), now 22 months, is always an adventure. He’s a well traveled kid, but a well-traveled two year old is like a well-traveled [...]