And now back in Beijing

Just like my hard drive!

I've been in Beijing since last Friday, and with the exception of going out on Chinese New Year's Eve, and to a few temple fairs on subsequent days, I've spent the entirety in my apartment reinstalling my computer's OS, while outside my window, I hear the sound of artillery fire-esque fireworks all day (and nght, too). Whoopee!! Now it's done, and I'm using my newfound expanse of un-cluttered drive space to do some re-organizing of my photo collection. While most of my Tibet photos are still to large to post, this panorama of a beautiful lake 4 hours north of Lhasa, called "Namucuo", is just small enough. I made it on an awesome bit of freeware called "autostitch", which you can download here if you're interested. It's such a tiny and efficient program.. if Glaser were in the habit of taking panoramic photos, this is the program he would use to stitch them together.