(I am in Dushanbe, Tajikistan but here’s my Siberia post – I will try to catch up before I leave Tajikistan next week.)

A van took me from Mongolia across the Russian border to the town of Kosh-Agach. The landscape was unchanged, a barren plain with mountains in the distance, and although most people still looked [...]

While I was still in Chengdu, Google pulled out of mainland China, moving its operations to Hong Kong – still part of China, but with a whole different set of laws. I think Google is doing the right thing, but I don’t know how much it will affect anything in China. One thing to note [...]