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You know the old Army saying:

We do more before 8am then most people do all day?

Well, B does more in one month than most people do all year. Check these out:

1. First she thinks she is still a Professor and has to chase some mystical rainbow by getting published. No, just kidding, BUT she did get written up as a contributor in this months Transfer Pricing for Financial Services where she is the Taiwan TP Manager! Congrats! Now I know all of you are just going to race out to your newsstand and grab a copy, right? Right?

2. Second she is making headlines in Taipei:
The article says she did something somewhere with someone somehow and she was GREAT!
This brings the family news archive up to 3!

3. Last but not least she jet-sets off to London and Paris for 10 days. She can’t spell Tube, but she is there none the less and seems to know more than the locals.

Now while she can continue to post even while traveling I seem locked into monkeying with my blog. I enjoy messing with the behinds the scenes code way more than actually blogging. Besides, who has that much to say?

I recently found Twitalyzer and now I am like a dieter trying to fit into skinny jeans. You see I am not influential and not generous*. Don’t you love it when even technology can put you down?

*…but I want to be :) PM me in Twitter (@beuktv) and I will add you. Maybe next week I can move up to #17,572!

Yes ’tis true. We have made the news again! This time on the BBC. Our recent trip to Harbin received some attention when I posted the tigers eating a cow video on YouTube.

Here is the link to the story on the BBC that aired on March 21st, 2007:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=4450939

If you have troubles playing the video, don’t feel bad. I did too. It probably requires that you use RealPlayer, so if it does not run right away click on the link at the bottom of the page that looks like this picture:
Then set it to RealPlayer. It should reload and you should be fine. Hey, it is the BBC’s website. Don’t blame me. The kicker is if you are in China, you probably won’t be able to get to the site anyway as the BBC is blocked.

The video is quite long and goes through a whole long story about tiger bone and how it is illegal. The one stat I did not believe is that there were only 50 wild tigers in China. I do not know where they got that number, but they mention it twice.

My video contribution is at the very end. I am the “Western Tourist” (I guess I was a tourist to Harbin ;) and it is my voice that you hear saying, “I think its a cow!” To answer your question, No, I did not get paid and that is OK with me. I think the BBC is quite smart to use YouTube to find content they can use in a story. Beats hiring a photographer. Now if they could just make the video easier to play :)

Click here for other pictures from our Harbin trip.

That’s right! We were written up in the NY Times. We were out and about the city one day when a reporter called Rebecca and asked if they could come shoot our house and interview us as to why we chose to live in the city. The article was a justification of Mayor Daley’s drive to keep young families in the city instead of having them head for the burbs.

The crazy part about the story is when one of Rebecca’s colleagues was in New York on business, he picked up a copy of the Sunday Times, and to his surprise KNEW someone in the paper! He called to say that he couldn’t believe that we were in there and that he happened to be reading the article. It truly is a small world.