Someone asked me yesterday which region of the world I typically cover at work.

I said it depended on who else was working at the time, but that I never did East Asia. Of course I went to work for an overnight shift last night and was assigned to East Asia. Go figure.

At some point I went to the website of Xinhua, an official Chinese government media outlet. I was there to see if they were reporting anything interesting and was surprised to see a link on the front page to a photo gallery of “Men’s Most Desirable Women of 2010.”

I was expecting something more like “Official Resigns Amid Labor Scandal.”

It is encouraging to see that while the Chinese government is less than interested in opening the Internet to its people, they do want citizens to see Blake Lively’s smiling face.

Seems like a good way to keep the people happy.

I would write more, but after the overnight I went home long enough to eat a bowl of cereal and then went to work at the other job. I have been up for 25 hours, and 32 of the past 34.

More developed posts coming for the rest of the week.