Just ran into a sound board for China. You can click the map and hear the sounds of different parts of China. Ranging from industrial noise in Chongqing to the construction of the Olympic swimming pool in Beijing.

Start listening

I just upgraded Wordpress to version 2.0.7 and if you haven’t done so, don’t wait too long as you don’t want to be hacked.
You can download it here.

I got a couple of emails today and I suddenly noticed a trend. They were all written by Chinese in English, all very polite but they all ended with ‘Please reply ASAP’
It maybe a cultural difference and likely not intentional but shouting ‘Please reply ASAP‘ to me, is a sure way I’ll take my […]

The Internet in China is still at snail speed and for some weird reason it gets worse in the evening.
Is everybody trying to play games after 18:00? Is the available bandwidth less in the evening to cut cost for China Telecom’s use of satellite back ups or is there another explanation for this?
The […]

Recruiting staff in China is not hindered by “weird” laws that tell you not to discriminate on age, sex etc. And if these laws exist, if so, fill me in, companies don’t seem to really care.
You want to hire a hot, Shanghainese, single employee between 20 and 21, light skin color, minimum height 1.65 […]

Positive solutions did a post on the things he missed when the Internet in China went back to the dark ages. A nice angle and I will blatantly copy his idea and spin it into telling you what I wish I had missed in this period.
1. Staring at my browser for ages hoping that […]

The internet is slowly getting back up to speed in China. It will take at least until the 15th of January 2007 to have things back to normal according to the state media. A internet black out like the one that happened this past week made me realize how it must be when the […]