The idea is that I’ll have an excuse to keep up to date with what’s going on in China, and the articles I translate will provide some good content to drive traffic to my consulting business.  Features I’m considering adding in the future include automatic Google translation of all the articles that get pulled in, just for the super curious, and user contributed translations for other likeminded people who enjoy translating stuff like this.

Still not quite sure whether I like China Decoder, chinadecoder, or chinadecoder.com as a brand.  Actually I was hoping to get chinachina.com but it is being squatted.

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1. Massachusetts ranks highest for searches on “china consulting,” even beating out California.
2. “china consulting” isn’t nearly as popular a set of keywords as “china business,” but handily beats keyword sets “china market research,” “china market entry,” and “china advisory”.
3. Most popular searches with the “china consulting” keywords are “consulting in china” and “china business consulting” – the latter of which is rising in popularity.

Looks like I may be Jewish after all.

As you can see here I’ve made sort of a logo. It doesn’t really have any particular meaning. I was just playing around in Pixelmator and I was feeling triangles and red. Do you like it?

Well I don’t actually expect anybody will read this post, but for some reason Google seems to respect links from this blog, so hopefully this will help boost my pagerank :)

They operate from a bare apartment on a remote island in the East. Their skin is dark, their hair is black, their eyes… slanty. These are the Chinese, the crafty people inhabiting vast regions of land across the seas, and they are attacking our internets.

According to U.S. Defense experts, ancient Chinese philosophy and culture, these pearls of mystic wisdom which have been passed down and polished through untold dynasties, are in fact entirely designed to provide the modern day Chinaman with the secrets by which he will destroy our internets, steal our infos, and wreak pestilence upon all civilized peoples of the West.

Yesterday, one of these sly hackers, who wished to be known as Xiao Chen, because “those stupid foreign devils will never figure out how to pronounce it,” revealed to reporters a number of these ancient Oriental secrets which will soon become our demise:

“There is a saying,” said Xiao Chen, “Know about both yourself and the enemy, and you will be invincible.” Reporters were soon lulled into a deep trance by the melodic tones of the Chinese tongue, and Xiao Chen promptly began stealing their secrets. However, one CNN reporter, trained in the arts of psychic resistance, remained stolidy unfazed. Xiao Chen continued, “Lao Tzu also says: The way that can be named is not the true way.”

Ancient Chinese hacking tool.

According to expert Sinologists contracted to the Pentagon, Lao Tzu was one of the forefathers of ancient Chinese thought, and was primarily responsible for developing the mysterious secrets which will soon end our cherished way of life. According to one professor of Classical Chinese who wished to remain anonymous, “Lao Tzu” simply means “old man,” but when written backwards and upside down with a brush made of wolves’ hair dipped in the blood of a diseased yak, means “attack internets.”

U.S. Military analysts say that although the technology is not yet ready, they are hopeful that we will soon be on the way to developing a functional time machine. “We’re gonna travel back there and stop that slanty bastard before he even gets started,” said one defense official. “We are going to nip this thing in the bud. Then our internets will be safe.”

For more in depth coverage, see CNN’s reports.